Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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This requires a different kind of intellect. It requires a broad historical context (to know what has happened before), a deep ethical framework (to know what should happen), and the courage of conviction (to stand by your selection).
Lyle Bowlin • The Great Re-Wiring, Day 5: The Curator vs. The Creator
Curator’s requirements.
“Everything we come into contact with has the potential to influence our taste. So the art of living well includes the art of feeding your input stream.” — Rick Rubin
stepfanie tyler • Taste Is the New Intelligence
AI is a collaborator that requires direction, critical engagement, and domain expertise. Used that way, it is extraordinarily valuable. Used without those things, it can produce confident, well-formatted errors.
Morten Nyboe Tabor • AI as a Research Collaborator, Not a Paper Mill
The shift
So what I am proposing is a need for a radical reframe of trustworthy AI in terms of virtue ethics, i.e. to focus on the ways that AI practitioners can cultivate trustworthiness and embody that character in their work. This, I suggest, will ripple out into improved trustworthiness and greater trust in the AI products being built (not just... See more
So what I am proposing is a need for a radical reframe of trustworthy AI in terms of virtue ethics, i.e. to focus on the ways that AI practitioners can cultivate trustworthiness and embody that character in their work. This, I suggest, will ripple out into improved trustworthiness and greater trust in the AI products being built (not just... See more
Bran Knowles • "Why Don't Some People Trust My AI?"
That an individual can him- or herself shape the way people understand the world is not itself radically new; however, concomitant with the rise in data has been what Clay Shirky has called a “cognitive surplus” (Shirky, 2010), whereby the connection and aggregation of humanity via the network also makes it possible to aggregate humankind’s time... See more
Curating the Digital World: Past Preconceptions, Present Problems, Possible Futures | MW2013: Museums and the Web 2013
Influencing the world, by controlling the flow of information, is novel.
The web is no longer primarily human-generated text created for human readers; it is increasingly AI-generated text created for algorithmic amplification, mixed with human-generated text optimized for the same algorithmic reward functions.
As AI systems train on this degraded corpus, they learn to reproduce its characteristics—shallow reasoning,... See more
As AI systems train on this degraded corpus, they learn to reproduce its characteristics—shallow reasoning,... See more
Substack • The Cognitive Collapse Thesis: How Polluted Information Loops Are Degrading Both Machine and Human Intelligence—And What It Means for Capital, Power, and Civilization
The finding is elegant and disturbing: when AI systems are trained on data generated by previous AI systems—a scenario increasingly common as synthetic content floods the internet—the models progressively lose their ability to represent rare and subtle patterns. The statistical tails of the distribution vanish. The models converge toward median,... See more