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Transcription/Translation. The fourth type is the automatic translation of information from one format to another: automatic transcription (sometimes called “automatic speech recognition” or “speech to text”), finding words and characters in images (like automatically reading license plates), machine translation of one language to another, or something like image style transfer (taking a selfie and making it look like an anime character).
The AI Con
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
Propaganda
Edward L. Bernays
Zadie Smith saw all this coming more than a decade ago. Writing about the rise of Facebook, and by extension all the other social media platforms, she observed, “When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it’s a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears.”
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