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AlphaZero, a program developed by Google’s DeepMind, plays chess better than any human player, but during its training it played forty-four million games, far more than any human can play in a lifetime. For it to master a new game, it will have to undergo a similarly enormous amount of training. By Chollet’s definition, programs like AlphaZero are highly skilled, but they aren’t particularly intelligent, because they aren’t efficient at gaining new skills.
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art | the New Yorker
Ted Chiang
Bourne’s damaged memory echoes the postmodern nostalgia mode as described by Fredric Jameson, in which contemporary or even futuristic reference at the level of content obscure a reliance on established or antiquated models at the level of form.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
Dan McQuillan writes in [his book](https://tdai.osu.edu/media/723) *[Resisting AI](https://tdai.osu.edu/media/723).* AI is currently the most salient expression of what the [late David Golumbia](https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2023/09/18/in-memory-of-david-golumbia/) called “computationalism” — the idea that minds and computers are alike and that all thought is information processing, instrumental reason.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
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