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Everything but climate change and ecological collapse, in 20 years, will seem like a sideline, completely meaningless. Any politician who isn’t taking it seriously and preparing for it shouldn’t be in office. Macron was not doing enough, not even close. Le Pen wants to make it worse.
The amount of processing power needed to train AI models (the number of actual calculations involved) is going up exponentially: between AlexNet, the image classification algorithm from 2012, and AlphaGo, the AI that beat a top-ranking player at Go in 2016, the number of computing operations required for model training went up by a factor of 300,000 (Open AI, 2018a). AI is not only a matter of computation but a significant commitment of material resources.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
The end of the obligatory sign is succeeded by the reign of the emancipated sign, in which any and every class will be able to participate.
Symbolic Exchange and Death
Jean Baudrillard
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