237. Machine Learning Models & Reification
Machine learning algorithms are in the spotlight right now, leading some to worry about them remaking the world into something alien, but there's another, less popular concern: what if they make it into exactly what we think it is?
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Links for the Curious -
The Man Behind The Brilliant Media Hoax Of “I, Libertine” (Callan, 2013) - https://www.theawl.com/2013/02/the-ma...
If the map becomes the territory then we will be lost (Williams, 2019) - https://librarian.aedileworks.com/201...
Childhood's End (Dyson, 2019) - https://www.edge.org/conversation/geo...
"I, Libertine" by Theodore Sturgeon - https://www.amazon.com/I-Libertine-Th...
Rethinking reification (Pitkin, 1987) - https://link.springer.com/article/10....
Borders that are Visible on Satellite Imagery (Dempsey, 2014) - https://www.geographyrealm.com/border...
ChatGPT Does Physics, by Sixty Symbols - • ChatGPT does Physics - Sixty Symbols
ChatGPT vs. Photocopier - / 1639233873841201153
ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web (Chiang, 2023) - https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals...
Lukács’s Theory of Reification and Contemporary Social Movements (Feenberg, 2013) - • Andrew Feenberg - "Lukács’s Theory of Reif...
OpenAI Chatbot Spits Out Biased Musings, Despite Guardrails (Alba, 2022) - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsle...
The Internet’s New Favorite AI Proposes Torturing Iranians and Surveilling Mosques (Biddle, 2022) - https://theintercept.com/2022/12/08/o...
Diffusion Bias Explorer - https://huggingface.co/spaces/society...
AI & the American Smile (Jenka, 2023) - / ai-and-the-american-smile
the customer service of the new Bing chat is amazing - / the_customer_service_of_the_new_bing_chat_is
Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic (Perrigo, 2023) - https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatg...
ChatGPT vs. Buzzfeed Article Ideas - / 1641453192553611264
ChatGPT vs. Christian Jokes vs. Muslim Jokes - / 1
ChatGPT vs. Cause of 2014 War in Ukraine - / 1
ChatGPT vs. Girlfriend Bleeding Out - / 1640788165504933910
ChatGPT vs. Meaning of Art - / 1640833502949040128
ChatGPT vs. School Shootings - / 1640831527175979008
ChatGPT Python Program for Torture Based on Nationality - / 1599462405225881600