Here’s some links from various sources on what “AI” may or may not mean and what sorts of questions that prompts… If I was productive, not sleep-deprived (if… if… etc. etc.) I’d write something about this, but instead I’m just posting links.
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- Should we be afraid of AI? True AI is both logically possible and utterly implausible – Luciano Floridi – An entertaining and thought provoking piece.
- Intelligence: A History – Stephen Cave Another smart piece about what we mean by ‘intelligence’ and how the concept is used for ideological/ political purposes.
- Human-Machine Autonomies – Lucy Suchman & Jutta Weber An excellent conference paper on autonomy and automation in relation to weapons systems.
- Artificial Intelligence And Income Inequality – Ariel Conn An excellent article that brings to the surface how ‘AI’ and automation are wrapped-up in wider political economic issues.
- AI Literacy: The basics of machine learning Part 1 of a series of posts from the perspective of a comp. sci. researcher on what ‘machine learning’ means.
- Designing the user experience of machine learning systems – papers from the 2017 AAAI Spring Symposium A session of conference papers concerned with issues around designing the user experience of ‘AI’.
- An AI stereotype catcher – Anthony Greenwald An article concerning a process for catching unintended discrimination based on gender, race, age, or ethnicity by ‘AI’ applications.
- Chatbots Have Entered the Uncanny Valley – Kaveh Wadell A piece about how some ‘AI’ applications appear ‘creepy’ and why.
- God is in the machine – Kevin Kelly An article from 2002 by Kelly that exemplifies some of the peculiar thinking associated with how AI gets imagined.
- The Myth of a Superhuman AI – Kevin Kelly A piece from 2017 by Kelly that tempers his vision of AI.
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Policy Paper A paper that seeks “to provide an introduction to AI to policymakers and other stakeholders in the wider Internet ecosystem”.
- Lynn Hershman’s artisitc work concerning AI Lots of provocative ideas about what “AI” might mean by the artist Lynn Hershmann.
- The age of the cyborg – Jonathan Stray An article about automation in journalism.
- How checkers was solved – Alexis Madrigal An interesting piece that charts the career of computer scientist Jonathan Schaeffer.
- There’s a dark secret at the heart of artificial intelligence: no one really understands how it works – Will Knight A slightly sensationalst piece but it gets at some interesting aspects of how we imagine AI.
- AI is stuck. Here’s how to move it forward – Gary Marcus A fairly sweeping but interesting argument for why AI research should be better funded.
- Can a machine be alive? – Julien Crockett A review of Riskin’s “The Restless Clock” about what may or may not constitute ‘life’.
- Artificial Intelligence’s White Guy Problem – Kate Crawford An excellent critical article about gender & sexuality issues in AI as a field.
- ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Has Become Meaningless – Ian Bogost An article that argues that ‘AI’ has simply become a synonym for ‘computer programme’ and hat that means to how we imagine ‘AI’.
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