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"#Imitation vs #Innovation: Large #Language and Image Models as Cultural #Technologies"
Today's Seminar by SFI External Prof @AlisonGopnik (@UCBerkeley)
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"Today you hear people talking about 'AN #AI' or 'THE AI.' Even 15 years ago we would not have heard this; we just heard 'AI.'"
@AlisonGopnik on the history of thought on the #intelligence (or lack thereof) of #simulacra, linked to the convincing foolery of "double-talk artists":
@AlisonGopnik on the history of thought on the #intelligence (or lack thereof) of #simulacra, linked to the convincing foolery of "double-talk artists":
"We should think about these large #AI models as cultural technologies: tools that allow one generation of humans to learn from another & do this repeatedly over a long period of time. What are some examples?"
@AlisonGopnik suggests a continuity between #GPT3 & language itself:
@AlisonGopnik suggests a continuity between #GPT3 & language itself:
Just as the most effective form of censorship is to keep people illiterate, so the most effective form of disenfranchisement is keep people from being counted. washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump…
“These appointees reportedly have been spending their time in senior strategy meetings questioning the need for Census operations that focus on the hardest to reach communities… casting doubt on whether they truly want to count everyone.” sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/m…
Two and a half years ago I wrote about how corrupting government statistics, and the Census specifically, was a central strategy for gaining dictatorial control over shared reality. Onward and upwards with the #EpistemicCrisis: the-american-interest.com/2018/04/17/dic…
