Not just back to the 1956 Dartmouth workshop (and excellent historical footage of McCarthy and Shannon) but also to the connections between the founding of statistics and eugenics.
The film is of this moment because it situates the narrative being pushed by the AI bros in its both its historical (see upthread) and present context -- the latter being coverage of environmental damage and the exploitative labor practices behind "AI".
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Not just back to the 1956 Dartmouth workshop (and excellent historical footage of McCarthy and Shannon) but also to the connections between the founding of statistics and eugenics.
The film is of this moment because it situates the narrative being pushed by the AI bros in its both its historical (see upthread) and present context -- the latter being coverage of environmental damage and the exploitative labor practices behind "AI".
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The people who complain that it is "out of date" because it doesn't speak to this week's buzzwords or this week's specific hype are frantically trying to stay within the narrative that the tech companies want to restrict us to.
@emilymbender Thank you for keeping us up to date on this debate!
