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The views expressed in this post are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the positions of any organisations I am associated with.
https://tacticaltech.org/news/insights/tech-ouroboros-digitised-culture-of-consumption
https://www.anildash.com/2024/08/31/oprah-wrong-ai
These two posts get at the sense of fancy statistical pattern systems (aka AI) having some purpose, but that purpose very much not being even on the horizon of the path we are on with current applications of AI.
I would love to see (and I’m sure someone has cooked up something like it) applications of machine learning to monitor environmental change and degradation, or monitor the impact of conflicts on civilians. I’d love to hear the sort of speech synthesis engines that got OpenAI in trouble with Scarlett Johansson used to make computers more accessible (with union contracts for the voice actors providing the source material for the synthesis, of course).
Instead, we get a machine designed to make statistically-proven generic writing. 🙃
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