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It’s as if by absorbing the language and postures of the oppressed, the diagonalists are attempting to outrun the long shadow of the past. Including the fact that our young countries are built on top of burned villages and graveyards, whose spirits have never been put to rest.
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
Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
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