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Date: 2021-09-10 10:39:11+00:00
From: <jkrybicki@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 35.224: dystopic reflections
Yeah: lets get the government into that. That will make things better. Oh,
wait, it wont. I lived in a dystopia for 25 years.
Hooray,
Jan Rybicki
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Subject: [Humanist] 35.224: dystopic reflections
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 35, No. 224.
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[1] From: Bill Benzon <wlbenzon@gmail.com>
Subject: Big Tech is replacing human artists with AI - by Erik
Hoel - The Intrinsic Perspective (29)
[2] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
Subject: not Walden Pond (25)
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Date: 2021-09-09 12:31:24+00:00
From: Bill Benzon <wlbenzon@gmail.com>
Subject: Big Tech is replacing human artists with AI - by Erik Hoel
- The Intrinsic Perspective
From the linked article:
> Because as we discussed, this sort of AI will be solely owned and
developed by
Big Tech due the scaling laws around how theyre trained and run. The
immediate
licensing of GPT-3 by Microsoft was an augury of this. Indeed, the rights to
interact with these AIs will be some of the most valuable licenses on the
planet
in the next decade. Consumers, even academic AI researchers, will
communicate
with company-owned trillion-parameter AIs solely via oracles, getting
nowhere
near the source code. The future of this technology belongs to huge
corporations
with major resources. So its not really that AI is automating artno,
corporations are automating art. And writing. And translation. And
illustration.
And music. And the thousand other human forms of creativity that give life
meaning. They are now the province of Big Tech.
>
> At this point I, for one, am willing to consider a Butlerian Jihad. As AI,
particularly whats called artificial general intelligence, gets more
powerful
and more concentrated in the hands of Big Tech, the government should step
in to
regulate it and force it to be narrow in the scope in its abilities.2
<https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/big-tech-is-replacing-human-artists#footnot
e-2>
After all, we regulate things like animal-human hybrids not just because
they
cause harm, but because they are an affront to human dignity. And the same
is
true here.
>
https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/big-tech-is-replacing-human-artists
Bill Benzon
wlbenzon@gmail.com
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Date: 2021-09-10 05:59:09+00:00
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
Subject: not Walden Pond
Scrolling
Gavin Francis
Review of:
Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings About Technology, from
the Telegraph to Twitter
by Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt
Fragments of an Infinite Memory: My Life with the Internet
by Maël Renouard, translated from the French by Peter Behrman de Sinéty
The Stars in Our Pockets: Getting Lost and Sometimes Found in the
Digital Age
by Howard Axelrod
New York Review of Books
23 September 2021
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/09/23/scrolling/
--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews; Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk <http://www.mccarty.org.uk>
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