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Artificial intelligence, as its critics like to say, is [neither artificial nor intelligent](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/06/microsofts-kate-crawford-ai-is-neither-artificial-nor-intelligent). It requires material resources and depends entirely on human labor, so it’s not artificial; and it has no intentionality or reasoning capabilities, so it’s not intelligent.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
According to this reader, the AI cameras didn't work any better than Tesla's full-self driving mode, and had to be backstopped by a minimum of three camera operators in an Indian call center, "so that there could be a quorum system for deciding on a customer's activity – three autopilots good, two autopilots bad."
Pluralistic: Three AI Insights for Hard-Charging, Future-Oriented Smartypantses
Cory Doctorow
Sometimes in accounts of how “AI” works, it’s implied that larger data sets make a model “smarter,” as though it somehow unlocks a higher mode of cognition. But the mode of processing doesn’t change; it just traces the same positive associations with more and more thoroughness. What is being proposed by these models is that there is no such thing as higher cognition, that there is only pattern matching, only associations of greater or lesser complexity, and there is no point in trying to understand why the patterns are what they are. They are arbitrary, brute facts.
The Lowest Tide
Rob Horning
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