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This parameter in language models is known as ‘temperature,’ which is analogous to the concept of temperature in physics. The higher the temperature of any given system, the more the atoms within it jostle about, and the greater our uncertainty in predicting their movements.
Do Chatbots Dream of AI Poetry? Calvino, Madness and Machine Literature
Imogen Whiteley
Of all the concepts Marx develops there which seem most likely to cause incredible human suffering, we only have space for the sparknotes: the division of labor into increasingly mindless and repetitive tasks, the law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall (and the corresponding falling value of our labor), and the ever-repeating cycle of economic crises (which are not "extenuating circumstances" of capitalism but a fundamental part of how it operates).
The Joy of Putting the Gun Down
keweenawspear.com
What I think I’ve come to understand, more deeply than ever before, is that the enemy is not technology itself, but rather inequality and centralization of power and knowledge, and that the answer to these threats are education, diversity and justice.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
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