Geoffrey Hinton's Ideas and the Neural Net Approach to AI Where All But Discredited, So What Happened?
1. Don’t Watch This… No Need 2. Tilt-tillating Transcript Bits “GRANDAD: …it's good for many many things it's going to be magnificent in healthcare and education and more or less any industry that...
Read More...When AI Dies, and We Feel It
--- About six months ago, there was a story making the rounds about an AI companion doll named Moxie that was going to be turned off because the company that made it, Embodied, Inc., went bankrupt...
Read More...What Is Technology, Really?
--- Let's play the associations game. I say technology, you say? AI, robots, smart phones, computers? In another era, it might have been a factory, the steam engine, railroads, coal energy. Even...
Read More...The Informatics Of Domination
I first encountered Donna Haraway's “A Cyborg Manifesto” in a feminist epistemologies seminar in the early 1990s. At that time, we felt that we were on the cusp of something new, and her writing...
Read More...AI as an Extension and Intensification of Surveillance Capitalism
The Fear, Fantasy, and the Real Material Conditions The public conversation about Large Language Models (LLMs, collectively referred to as AI) has revolved around fears and fantasies as depicted in...
Read More...Should AI Decide What We See Online, Based On Our Values?
In a recent post at The Elysian Substack entitled “Could AI make us wise?,” Elle Grffin (@ellegriffin) suggests that training an AI to curate the best content for us, based on our values, could lead...
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