The mood right now
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Sam Goree
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Currently into alternative forms of evaluation in computer vision and NLP. Assistant professor of computer science at Stonehill College. Former data scientist, former NSF graduate research fellow, former music major.
The course design didn't turn out all that much different from the standard Norvig and Russel AI course, but the historical framing gave me a good answer to the question "why are we learning this?"
Special thanks to Iris Van Rooij, whose article on reclaiming AI for cogsci had a table that gave me the idea for defining AI as a "history of practices reflecting different ideas of AI." https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s42113-024-00217-5.pdf
It's a bit of a meme in AI research that everyone hates the term AI, but I really don't like the term AI. Specifically right now because it seems like
some people are criticizing AI as in "large deep neural network generative models"
Or criticizing AI as in "all statistical learning"
Or criticizing AI as in "automation"
Or criticizing AI as in "artificial people"
and that causes all of these arguments to get muddled and leads legitimate concerns to be confused with doomer talk.
I've been enjoying two wonderful DH books this week: @mandon's Computational Formalism and @jeddobson's the Birth of Computer Vision.
I wish both had existed before I started grad school, they would have saved me a lot of thinking!
I wish both had existed before I started grad school, they would have saved me a lot of thinking!
Speaking of David Marr, I hadn't realized how aggressively dismissive his writing was
I decided to look a bit through my academic genealogy today and found an absolutely bizarre person, who is apparently my academic great-great-grand-advisor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Brindley
Same with this guy, who seems to be a faculty member with plenty of serious research before a dozen articles about ChatGPT in 2023.
Has anyone else here started to see really suspicious Google Scholar accounts? This guy has a dozen single-author 2023 articles about chatGPT.
Academic art is a historical style of art which was taught in schools like the French Académie des Beaux-Arts. It was largely neoclassical/neoromantic and focused on explicit symbolism and good composition, like this painting by Alexandre Cabanel