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The Overstory
Richard Powers
The computer scientist François Chollet has proposed the following distinction: skill is how well you perform at a task, while intelligence is how efficiently you gain new skills.
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art | the New Yorker
Ted Chiang
One of the reasons people get excited about AI is because of the way it can be applied to so many different challenges. However, the characteristics of abstraction and optimization that make AI so appealing also make it brittle in ways that amount to statistical callousness. Its operations easily become forms of social profiling and targeting that act as ‘solutionism’, that is, as technical fixes that cover up underlying structural unfairness.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
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