The Man Behind The Model
A collection of writing and media that breaks the spell around AI by exposing its mechanics, limits, and incentives so that we can reveal the man behind the model and ground fear, creativity, and the future in reality.
The Man Behind The Model
Reclaiming Agency
So, what can we do? We can navigate these complexities by adopting clearer frames for understanding AI:
- Tool-frame : See AI as a deterministic pattern machine—a sophisticated but ultimately mechanical process of pattern recognition and generation. When I ask ChatGPT to help me summarize research papers, I'm using it like an
Andrew Conner • The Illusion of AI Personhood
“There’s this great essay by Hannah Baer in the latest issue of Artforum, where she unpacks why we are so afraid of AI becoming more intelligent than humans. If you look at this historically, humans have positioned themselves as the most intelligent species, even though that’s not true. As the “most intelligent species,” we’ve used this power as an... See more
Meet Mindy Seu — passerby magazine
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
I heard an artist by the name of Holly Herndon say that the term AI is a huge disservice and collective intelligence is a far more accurate term.
Because if you strip LLMs to their essence, they are just a much better way of using statistics to aggregate human intelligence and connect everything we’ve all done together to get more use out of it.
Once... See more
Because if you strip LLMs to their essence, they are just a much better way of using statistics to aggregate human intelligence and connect everything we’ve all done together to get more use out of it.
Once... See more
Sari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions.
Julien Crockett • How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell
It's becoming increasingly evident that in many circles, AI is not perceived as merely a technology, but as "something else" entirely. This misconception is exemplified by the recurring debate: "Humans vs AI." To illustrate the absurdity of this framing, let's replace "AI" with "technology":
"Humans vs... See more
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