So people send me articles, videos, and other interesting stuff all the time, and I enjoy and appreciate it but I rarely find the time to do a proper write up. Usually, the articles sit as open tabs in my browser, waiting for me to post them here with some analysis, and are lost [...]
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Jon links to Forbes’ special edition on AI. I’ll go through most of these, commenting when appropriate. For instance: Dumb Like Google While the switch to “stupid” statistically based computing has given us tools like Google, it came with a steep price, namely, abandoning the cherished notion that computers will one day be like [...] except you have to understand that in these transitory times, “Google” is basically a stand-in for “future internet technologies”. Google the corporation has been pretty careful about heeding the cries of the entertainment industry. The Internet won’t be so gentle. via Gizmodo via Lally Mistrial by iPhone: Juries’ Web Research Upends Trials (NYT) Last week, a juror in a big federal drug trial in Florida admitted to the judge that he had been doing research on the case on the Internet, directly violating the judge’s instructions and centuries of legal rules. But when the judge questioned the rest [...] If one of the fundamental problems of the technological world is the explosion of information, then it seems to me that the task of ‘sensemaking’ is a burden that must be taken up by both humans and machines. This is where the real power of human-machine collaboration lies: machines are not just tools to [...] Ran into this quote from Whitehead:
There is an echo of this sentiment in Turing’s approach to artificial intelligence. In any case, I found this quote on the Nudge blog, based on a book by Thaler and Sunstein. A nudge is any environmental cue that disposes a person to a particular response. They describe it like this:
They call their position ‘libertarian paternalism’ (ugh), and it is all about limiting control in particular ways without compromising freedom of choice. More specifically, it is about how to design environments that foster intelligent decision making. This might be one of those dangerous ideas, but when have you ever had a reason to distrust a Chicago economist? Some examples and a lecture below. |
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