Not sure why this dross, dated Dec 1, seems to be circulating now (and why it didn't cross my feed a month ago), but wow what a terrible essay.
https://bigthink.com/the-present/the-rise-of-ai-denialism/
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@emilymbender "Big Think" as the name of an AI shill outlet is just a bit too on the nose, sorry. The showrunners are really getting lazy.
I am so glad someone took this article to task.
Thank you.
Is that essay actually AI written?
It has that form-over-substance feel...?
@emilymbender I don’t trust an opinion piece that doesn’t acknowledge and address the weaknesses in its premise. It means the writer is in no way thinking critically.
@emilymbender had to stop reading when I got here, admittedly not very far.
“the very scary possibility that we humans may soon lose cognitive supremacy to artificial systems”
My internal screaming would not let me continue.
@emilymbender It's weird to celebrate something so breathlessly while claiming that it has thrown a nation into stages of grief.
Like ... we don't have to do this. Why opt into something that immediately causes us to grieve
@emilymbender incredibly weak article, reads almost like religious document. Kinda indicative of AI zealots.
@emilymbender Thank you! What do you think about the part, that "It is very likely that AI systems will soon be able to “read you” more accurately than any person could."
People tell these systems everything.
@kaffeeringe On the one hand, "emotion recognition" is misframed from the start --- the "best" one could hope to do is to match how a person (ideally from the same cultural background) observing the subject would understand a facial expression.
On the other hand, companies will try anything to take advantage of emotionally vulnerable people.
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@kaffeeringe I think it was in the book _Careless People_ that I read about Facebook specifically targeting ads to teen girls who had just deleted a selfie, preying on hypothesized (and probably often right) moments of low self-esteem.
@emilymbender Thank you. I read the article when it was published. And I disagreed with most of it. This part seemed to have a point. But you are right: it's not real reading of people but again mimicking and 50 shades of sycophancy.
@emilymbender Big Think, they say?
