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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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Paul Prudence
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I agree it is a generalisation, but ultimately even creative uses of AI create revenue streams that ultimately fund military technology, and that bothers me a lot. I read recently about how much funding Sam Altman receives from defence budgets in the US for 'research'. The recent use of AI targeting of civilians in Gaza doesn’t sit comfortably with me, and unfortunately I see all of this as highly connected. I guess you could say the same about all technology eventually, though. It's a book length debate.
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