"But language — how it’s generated, what it means — is about to get very contentious. We’re already disoriented by the chatbots we’ve got. The technology that’s coming will be even more ubiquitous, powerful, and destabilizing. A prudent citizen, Bender believes, might choose to know how it works."

HT @ct_bergstrom this profile of Emily Bender is *amazing*. From now on we should call #AI, #SALAMI (Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences).

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

@Ruth_Mottram @ct_bergstrom
"I recall Solaris: Lem spends a lot of time talking about how humans can’t even conceptualize of contact with a truly evolved intelligent alien life, because everywhere we go, we’re just looking for a mirror...to reflect what is lurking inside ourselves...that’s why these kinds of chatbots are so easy to anthropomorphize: they’re just repeating our own ideas back to us... the same words in a slightly different order, and we LOVE IT"
https://youtu.be/u83o5NFlowc
What's ACTUALLY Scary about Bing's "Artificial Intelligence"

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@bornach @ct_bergstrom That's an outstanding way of putting it...