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Another AI reading list: these books are worth your time
Lots of great books about AI came out recently, here are some I found useful.
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The writer, the text and the audience
Meaning in art comes from more than the artifact.
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The politics of AI: we'll need more sustainability, community and democracyLast week I attended a symposium called ”The Politics of AI: governance, resistance, alternatives” at Goldsmiths in London. In this post, I will share some takeaways.
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We should listen to the philosophers more
A few thoughts on the philosophical perspective.
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How to avoid that your post about AI helps the hype
If we're not cautious, we may accidentally feed the AI hype by talking about it in specific ways.
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Is “ethical AI” an oxymoron?
The current wave of generative AI has unpleasant side effects: large-scale copyright infringements, environmental impact and bias. For most uses today, it makes sense to me to default to not using AI.
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Clippy returned (as an unnecessary “AI”)
This week I used an “AI” feature that struck me as somewhat unnecessary.
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It's pretty rude of OpenAI to make their use of your content opt-out
OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT, now offers a way for websites to opt out of its crawler. By default, it will just use web content as it sees fit. How rude!
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“AI” content and user centered design
When organisations force LLM-output on users instead of paying people to create their content, they don't center users.
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Neither artificial, nor intelligent
Large Language Models (LLMs) and tools based on them (like ChatGPT) are a popular topic among technologists today. I struggle with the optimism I see from businesses, the haphazard deployment of these systems and the seemingly ever-expanding boundaries of what we are prepared to call “artificially intelligent”.
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Re: AI for content creation
Content that is created with the aid of machine learning lacks a human touch that is worth caring about.
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How AI is made matters, confirms “Atlas of AI”
My review of Atlas of AI.
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An AI reading list
Five books about artificial intelligence and the philosophy of AI that I can recommend.