AI
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information processing
« The first methods for representing human activities on computers were derived from the work-rationalization methods that industrial engineers had been developing since the 1910s. Hence the phrase ‘information processing’: the idea was that computers automate a kind of factory work whose raw materials happens to be information rather than anything physical or tangible. »(Philip…
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Large Technical System
The conception of AI as a Large Technical System (LTS) – system artefact, system technology, infrastructural technology (Vannuccini & Prytkova 2020) “The study of AI as LTS uncovers active mechanisms of control and coordination, helps to identify types of actors and their incentives and to detect critical nodes of the system.” (Vannuccini and Prytkova, 2020,…
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Model collapse and the semiosphere
This article explains the idea of ‘model collapse’. According to Nicolas Papernot, “It’s kind of a reinforcing feedback loop where you only listen to the majority and you start forgetting whatever things were said less often. […]There can be oddities where something that you start generating is actually not that common, and so it just…
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Podcast on language models with Joanna Bryson and Daniel Leufer
In the past few days, generative Artificial Intelligence systems like ChatGPT and Stability AI have caught great attention. In the first part of the podcast, we discuss to what extent these language models are actually new, and the potential societal transformations they can drive with Joanna Bryson, Professor of Ethics and Technology at The Hertie…