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Paul Prudence
@paul-prudence
Aside from a very few (mostly conceptual works of art) I am unapologetically pessimistic about the role of AI in art and in society in general. There I said it. I will not bore you with my list of negatives right here but at the very least consumer level AI *is* just the entertainment division of the military industrial complex (to paraphrase F. Zappa) Critical tracts dissecting intelligent artificiality and the 'tech arms race ' excite me and this one by Karen Hao looks promising. Arriving in May 'I argue that the only way to fully understand the far-reaching implications of the AI race is to recognize companies like OpenAI as new forms of empire. Empires of old seized & extracted resources, and exploited the labor of the places they conquered to drive their own expansion & advancement. All the while, they justified their conquest by calling it a civilizing mission and promising to bring the world boundless progress... (continued below)
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agoston nagy
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While I feel your concerns, I think this statement is an oversimplification of "AI" - too broad of a term. Sharing the pessimism regarding the "big tobacco"-like conglomerates but I miss the world of small scale, open source models, local inference, transformers, reinforcement learning and similar approaches from the argument which I find rather inspiring achievements
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Paul Prudence
@paul-prudence
Of course, Open-source breaks the loop of command, control and 'imperialism' as you say. And on that part I do agree with you. 🤝
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