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As Whittaker warns, this resource-intensive paradigm is “capturing” entire zones of academic research: choking off funding for alternative technologies that do not favor the world’s largest tech companies. Indeed, as the cost of training new models [has risen by .5 orders of magnitude every year since 2009](https://epochai.org/blog/trends-in-the-dollar-training-cost-of-machine-learning-systems), “AI” increasingly becomes an engine for consolidating monopoly power.

Now the Humanities Can Disrupt “AI”

Lauren M. E. Goodlad & Samuel Baker

In his 1958 monograph, The Computer and The Brain, von Neumann speculates that, some important differences aside, the machine he built with digital circuits appeared to work in a similar way to the neural circuits of the brain. What were his insights about the workings of neurons based on? Little more than what could be inferred from the pioneering work of Santiago Ramón y Cajal.

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The other side of this was mass surveillance of workers in factories and partnerships between the Life Extension Institute and Ford Motor Company—maybe no surprise there given Henry Ford’s general politics. A lot of it was about looking at different races and ethnicities of workers, and women workers versus men, and factors like disability and age. And trying to predict when workers would wear out while also trying to understand the conditions under which workers would be the most productive and most effective without killing them.

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