- daviddao/awful-ai: ?Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI – hoping to raise awareness
Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI – hoping to raise awareness to its misuses in society - Wireheading: when machine learning systems jolt their reward centers by cheating / Boing Boing
these systems (AI) achieve their notional goals while subverting their own purpose, with names like “model stealing, rewarding hacking and poisoning attacks.”— so just like what happens with people and data . . .
- 10 Reasons Why You Should NOT Get your MLS (Master of Lighthouse Science) – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Too many waves? Want to tone down that Nor’easter? Ghost pirates stepped out of the fog again and created hazardous working conditions? Hah. Good luck getting the ocean to respond to that email.–and the last one re online edu . . .
- Can I realistically avoid services that are part of my education? : privacy
h/t Doug Levin on Twitter - The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade
Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. Bill Gates wouldn’t let his kids have cellphones. Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories, apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article: “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, they do.) It’s that their parents are opting them out of exposure to these technologies. (Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.)–read the whole thing
- François Chollet on Twitter: “Our field isn’t quite “artificial intelligence” — it’s “cognitive automation”: the encoding and operationalization of human-generated abstractions / behaviors / skills. The “intelligence” label is a category error” / Twitte
Our field isn’t quite “artificial intelligence” — it’s “cognitive automation”: the encoding and operationalization of human-generated abstractions / behaviors / skills. The “intelligence” label is a category error