bs2Feb 21, 2024

> Utopian visions of earlier technological periods
> If you thought that computers were the first panacea for all our ills, how about steam, electrical power, and electronics?

Bertrand Russel on Science Arundhati Roy on power seems more helpful than #TechEuphoria writings.
Steam had hype like #LLM #SalamiAI #CyberneticAI ..

From #MythInformation by #LangdonWinner

https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~meeden/phil27/s24/papers/Mythinformation.pdf

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Icarus: The #FutureOfScience , the book is on-line.
> #icarus having been taught to fly by his father Daedalus, was destroyed by his rashness. I fear that the same fate may overtake the populations whom modern men of science have taught to fly. Some of the dangers inherent in the #ProgressOfCcience while we retain our present political and #EconomicInstitutions are set forth in the following pages.
https://archive.org/details/icarusorfutureof00russ
Same but different with #LLM #AISalami #GenerativeAI #CyberneticAI ?
Icarus; or, The future of science, by Bertrand Russell : Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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It seems that I forgot to include the article's link at the start of this thread of quotes:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444819885334
and
https://rainermuehlhoff.de/en/Human-Aided-AI-article-published/
#RainerMühlhoff
/HT @RainerMuehlhoff

A recent post about visualzing the size of #LLMs or #CyberneticAI brought this thread back to mind.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@w0bb1t/111784612688391377

#LLMsSize #SizeOfTheLLMs

bs2Jan 11, 2024
> Simulative AI reproduces human skills, while cybernetic AI embeds them..
> .. In #SimulativeAI, intelligence manifests in a relation of comparison or resemblance of skills across external boundaries of humans and machines. In #CyberneticAI, intelligence is an emergent and distributed capacity of the hybrid human-machine assemblages as a whole.. power relations that make the human a functional part of that machine.
#RainerMühlhoff
/HT @RainerMuehlhoff via I can't remember, sorry!
#AiSALAMI