#256: The "world" according to AI pushers
A less cynical way to think about the postmodern tech revolution is that it hasn’t completely subsumed the real, brilliant, chaotic world, but merely emphasized it as vital and precious. Artificial intelligence, in my view, continues this tradition. The only singularity it can truly achieve is one that understands humanity at its most inhuman (and... See more
Haley Nahman • #138: Do you pass the Turing test?
What emerges from this is a portrait of technology as inevitable progress that must, despite its inevitability, be fully embraced without hesitation. For the tech evangelist, artificial intelligence research is self-evidently necessary, the next triumph in the ever-rising pyramid of human achievement and progress. In this discourse, AI allows... See more
Abeba Birhane • Fair Warning — Real Life
Becoming unLLMable
In May, I delivered a version of this essay at the Sana AI Summit stage in Stockholm. The talk was titled “Becoming unLLMable.” My goal was to inspire and lead with hope. And it seemed to do just that—people were moved. For a moment, my own anxieties about AI quieted.
But afterward, in conversation after conversation, one question... See more
In May, I delivered a version of this essay at the Sana AI Summit stage in Stockholm. The talk was titled “Becoming unLLMable.” My goal was to inspire and lead with hope. And it seemed to do just that—people were moved. For a moment, my own anxieties about AI quieted.
But afterward, in conversation after conversation, one question... See more