Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Mar 21

Veatch: “What was really surprising to me during my initial dive into all of this was how, when you look at the question of superintelligence as a documentarian or journalist, it doesn’t take long before you smack your forehead into the low doorframe of race science, because it’s baked into this technology”

I love this metaphor because of how it speaks to the contortions people (here: AI boosters) go through to ignore/pretend not to notice the race science.

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/897923/ghost-in-the-machine-valerie-veatch-interview

The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics

Ghost in the Machine — out on Kinema March 26th — director Valeria Veatch speaks with The Verge about gen AI’s roots in eugenics.

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Thank you @emilymbender - I'll watch this when it becomes available to me.

The part "...we have to know what the fuck that phrase means" resonates: Would not current "AI" better be described as "simulated intelligence"?
As with diamonds, simulated ones may look like the real thing at a distance, but being made of plastic, glass or cheaper crystals, they cannot stand up to scrutiny and have limited usefulness. Artificial ones however are nearly indistinguishable from real ones, and are as (or more) useful.
Mar 22 at 4:41pmWeb