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Recommendation. A third type selects information to present to someone, based on their own search or purchase history, or searches performed by someone else with a similar profile to them. These systems are called recommender systems. They’re behind the ordering of your feed in social media websites, Amazon product recommendations, or movie suggestions on Netflix.
The AI Con
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
Curtis attacks the internet because, in his view, it facilitates communities of solipsists, interpassive networks of like-minds who confirm, rather than challenge, each others’ assumptions and prejudices. Instead of having to confront other points of view in a contested public space, these communities retreat into closed circuits.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
She had once read in a book about consciousness that over the years, the human brain makes an AI version of your loved ones. The brain collects data, and within your brain, you host a virtual version of that person. Upon the person’s death, your brain still believes the virtual person exists, because, in a sense, the person still does. After a while, though, the memory fades, and each year, you are left with an increasingly diminished version of the AI you had made when the person was alive.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
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