Anatomy of an AI System
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Anatomy of an AI System
Alongside the companies that gather data, there are newly powerful companies that build the tools for organizing, processing, accessing, and visualizing it—companies that don’t take in the traces of our common life but set the terms on which it is sorted and seen. The scraping of publicly available photos, for instance, and their subsequent labelin... See more
logicmag.io • Singular Plural
Capitalism approaches its exhaustion when human productivity is not just augmented by technology but replaced by it.
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
We realised that the tools we have created to master the world are re-mastering us. But more importantly, it became evident, that the desire for mapping, tweaking and ultimately, controlling, deeply complex systems is hubristic. As Tega Brain writes in her exceptional essay “we must acknowledge how deeply entrenched we are within a computational wo... See more
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
Enough narrow AI infused with the data thrown off by billions of humans starts to look suspiciously like strong AI. In short, these are systems of collective intelligence that use algorithms to aggregate the collective knowledge and decisions of millions of individual humans. And that, of course, is also the classical conception of “the market”—the
... See moreTim O'Reilly • Wtf?
Technology magnifies the consciousness of its creators; AI especially mirrors our collective intentions, fears, biases, and aspirations. If our motivations are primarily extraction and control, we will see a rapid and breathtaking amplification of those shadows.