Lot of conversation around the political risks of #AI. Lots talk about disinfo. Some around data privacy. But I think the biggest political risk right now is these tools convincing us to do visibly stupid things. That professor who accused his class of cheating — that lawyer who filed fake citations — these are smart people! Political staff need to get hands-on familiarity with these tools to understand the benefits and limits, or else we too are prime for something consequentially embarrassing.
Aside from social media divides, there is a HUGE divide in tech I'm seeing now - pro-AI (LLM) and anti-AI/LLM. People saying it's making awful code and causing other issues, and then the companies raving about adding it to things and demonstrations of what it can do. I seriously saw one after the other a couple times today 😬🤣
Molly White is right as usual: "We’ve already tried out having a tech industry led by a bunch of techno-utopianists and those who think they can reduce everything to markets and equations. Let’s try something new, and not just give new names to the old."
trying to articulate new ideologies for computing is where my mind has been at the last few years too. i joke about the 'anti-perf manifesto,' but forging imaginaries that can run on computers that are actively antagonistic to the techno-utopians is all about killing myths of heroism where we are the someone else who goes out and "brings home the spoils." how do we reach a computing that isn't foundationally based on asymmetric power, we serfs at the mercy of the lord of the platform and vice versa, we altrustic platform providers building things the commoners couldn't possibly understand. The language of "scale" where one or a few services need to expand to provide for millions hides futures where we can provide for each other horizontally in overlapping quilts of dozens, hundreds. You could shorthand the "#AI" boom as the continuation of the information conglomerates trying to provide the everything platform, and if our dreams are to meaningfully challenge theirs we can't also aspire to simply "do what they're doing, except it's us doing it."
I tried to articulate this as the cloud orthodoxy vs. a still-nebulous idea i've landed on as vulgarity in computing, but i'll probably be orbiting this idea for as long as i am on line.
We defunded high school #arts and #music programs so now we have adults that think an #ai algorithm can make art rather than meaningless sensory noise.
The sheer lack of grasp on why anyone enjoys art or where it even comes from is a condemnation of our whole culture, honestly.
Keine Ahnung, wer von euch hier ChatGPT mit Dall-E3 nutzt, aber ich bin inzwischen ziemlich begeistert von der Nummer.
Keine Angst, ich schwafle euch nichts von Kunst etc vor. Ich kann nicht malen, zeichnen etc. - Aber ich habe eine ausgepraegte Fantasie und die hilft natuerlich, Prompts fuer solche Fotos hinzubekommen.
The "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" ideologies that have been cropping up in AI debates are just a thin veneer over the typical blend of Silicon Valley techno-utopianism, inflated egos, and greed. Let's try something else.
Let's do our usual #MorningMoments and discuss what we all have planned for the day and the weekend?
For me, it's work stuff, website stuff and of course the Houston Texans playoff game against the Baltimore Ravens. Hoping my Texans can pull off a huge upset and get another playoff win today.
Other than that, just some video games to rest and relax.
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