Re: <nettime> Please show some conscience

[Andreas Broeckmann <ab@mikro.in-berlin.de>]

oh, but Olia, don't be surprised, you know this from way back when...: 
these kinds of ideological tropes appear as _essential_ and _truthful_ 
to the believers and the ideologues, whereas they appear as "arbitrary, 
inconsistent and meaningless" only to skeptics and non-believers. (And 
we know what can happen to such heretics...)

Francis Hunger calls it "Enhanced Pattern Recognition"; but it is 
unlikely that the believers and ideologues of "AI" will follow his 
suggestion.

Regards,
-a



Am 23.03.18 um 15:40 schrieb olia lialina:
> what really strikes me (not only in this text but in so many of the last
> three years) is arbitrary, inconsistent and just meaningless use of the
> term AI. And this from people who are actually doing it!
>
>
> On 22.03.2018 18:37, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> > Twitter thread from GOOGL ML employee:
> >
> >
> > François Chollet
> >
> > The world is being shaped in large part by two long-time trends:
> > first, our lives are increasingly dematerialized, consisting of
> > consuming and generating information online, both at work and at home.
> > Second, AI is getting ever smarter.
> >
> > These two trends overlap at the level of the algorithms that shape our
> > digital content consumption. Opaque social media algorithms get to
> > decide, to an ever-increasing extent, which articles we read, who we
> > keep in touch with, whose opinions we read, whose feedback we get.
> >
> > Integrated over many years of exposure, the algorithmic curation of
> > the information we consume gives the systems in charge considerable
> > power over our lives, over who we become. By moving our lives to the
> > digital realm, we become vulnerable to that which rules it -- AI
> > algorithms.

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