MachineMachine /stream - tagged with language https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[AI and Indigenous Languages]]> https://blog.westerndigital.com/indigenous-languages/

It is estimated that one language dies every 14 days, with it a world of concepts and ideas that could only be expressed in its words. Most of the languages at risk of extinction belong to Indigenous communities.

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Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:42:43 -0800 https://blog.westerndigital.com/indigenous-languages/
<![CDATA[A.I. Needs New Clichés. The old ones aren’t helping, and the… | by Molly Wright Steenson | Medium]]> https://maximolly.medium.com/ai-needs-new-clichés-ed0d6adb8cbb

If you plug “AI” or “artificial intelligence” into Google Image Search, here’s what you get. Electric brains firing blue with neurons. Translucent robots and robot heads, code dribbling down their foreheads and noses.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:40 -0800 https://maximolly.medium.com/ai-needs-new-clichés-ed0d6adb8cbb
<![CDATA[ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, Says Linguist Emily Bender]]> https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Nobody likes an I-told-you-so.

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Thu, 23 Nov 2023 03:37:34 -0800 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html
<![CDATA[AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein

Inside the many debates swirling around the rapid rollout of so-called artificial intelligence, there is a relatively obscure skirmish focused on the choice of the word “hallucinate”.

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Mon, 10 Jul 2023 03:51:26 -0700 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein
<![CDATA[Today's AI is artificial artificial artificial intelligence • The Register]]> https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/16/crowd_workers_bots_ai_training/

Workers hired via crowdsource services like Amazon Mechanical Turk are using large language models to complete their tasks – which could have negative knock-on effects on AI models in the future. Data is critical to AI.

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Mon, 10 Jul 2023 02:53:01 -0700 https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/16/crowd_workers_bots_ai_training/
<![CDATA[How independent writers are turning to AI]]> https://www.theverge.com/c/23194235/ai-fiction-writing-amazon-kindle-sudowrite-jasper

On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series about a detective witch in central Florida, and she was behind schedule.

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Sat, 23 Jul 2022 03:51:31 -0700 https://www.theverge.com/c/23194235/ai-fiction-writing-amazon-kindle-sudowrite-jasper
<![CDATA[How independent writers are turning to AI]]> https://www.theverge.com/c/23194235/ai-fiction-writing-amazon-kindle-sudowrite-jasper

On a Tuesday in mid-March, Jennifer Lepp was precisely 80.41 percent finished writing Bring Your Beach Owl, the latest installment in her series about a detective witch in central Florida, and she was behind schedule.

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Fri, 22 Jul 2022 23:51:31 -0700 https://www.theverge.com/c/23194235/ai-fiction-writing-amazon-kindle-sudowrite-jasper
<![CDATA[Notes on a genre]]> https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/notes-on-a-genre/

The thing to know about the AI lan­guage mod­els, OpenAI’s GPT-3 and its cousins, is that they are fun­da­men­tally bull­shit­ters. The bull­shit has got­ten better and bet­ter, but at the core … well, there’s noth­ing at the core.

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Fri, 10 Jun 2022 20:51:33 -0700 https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/notes-on-a-genre/
<![CDATA[Notes on a genre]]> https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/notes-on-a-genre/

The thing to know about the AI lan­guage mod­els, OpenAI’s GPT-3 and its cousins, is that they are fun­da­men­tally bull­shit­ters. The bull­shit has got­ten better and bet­ter, but at the core … well, there’s noth­ing at the core.

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Fri, 10 Jun 2022 16:51:33 -0700 https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/notes-on-a-genre/
<![CDATA[The “algospeak” dialect. An emerging vocabulary designed to… | by Cory Doctorow | Apr, 2022 | Medium]]> https://doctorow.medium.com/the-algospeak-dialect-74961b4803b7

The first social media — blogs — were built on the idea of “user-pull” (users would decide which creators to follow) and “reverse chrono” (users received the most recent posts first).

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:52:59 -0700 https://doctorow.medium.com/the-algospeak-dialect-74961b4803b7
<![CDATA[A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? - The New York Times]]> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/magazine/ai-language.html

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. You are sitting in a comfortable chair by the fire, on a cold winter’s night. Perhaps you have a mug of tea in hand, perhaps something stronger.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:52:41 -0700 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/magazine/ai-language.html
<![CDATA[The “algospeak” dialect. An emerging vocabulary designed to… | by Cory Doctorow | Apr, 2022 | Medium]]> https://doctorow.medium.com/the-algospeak-dialect-74961b4803b7

The first social media — blogs — were built on the idea of “user-pull” (users would decide which creators to follow) and “reverse chrono” (users received the most recent posts first).

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:52:59 -0700 https://doctorow.medium.com/the-algospeak-dialect-74961b4803b7
<![CDATA[A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? - The New York Times]]> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/magazine/ai-language.html

To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. You are sitting in a comfortable chair by the fire, on a cold winter’s night. Perhaps you have a mug of tea in hand, perhaps something stronger.

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Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:52:41 -0700 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/magazine/ai-language.html
<![CDATA[Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech | WIRED UK]]> https://www.wired.co.uk/article/maori-language-tech

Te Hiku Media gathered huge swathes of Māori language data. Corporates are now trying to get the rights to it

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Mon, 17 May 2021 23:55:23 -0700 https://www.wired.co.uk/article/maori-language-tech
<![CDATA[The Great Silence - Issue 75: Story - Nautilus]]> http://nautil.us/issue/75/story/the-great-silence

The humans use Arecibo to look for extraterrestrial intelligence. Their desire to make a connection is so strong that they’ve created an ear capable of hearing across the universe. But I and my fellow parrots are right here. Why aren’t they interested in listening to our voices?

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Sat, 17 Aug 2019 06:04:33 -0700 http://nautil.us/issue/75/story/the-great-silence
<![CDATA[There be monsters: from cabinets of curiosity to demons within | Aeon Essays]]> https://aeon.co/essays/there-be-monsters-from-cabinets-of-curiosity-to-demons-within

In 2003, a team of scientists in China managed to create embryos containing a mix of rabbit and human DNA. Most of the biological matter was human, while the rabbit DNA was present only in the mitochondria, the energy-generators of the cells.

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Wed, 07 Nov 2018 07:08:22 -0800 https://aeon.co/essays/there-be-monsters-from-cabinets-of-curiosity-to-demons-within
<![CDATA[Searching for Language to Capture How Climate Change Has Altered Our World - The New York Times]]> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/books/review/rising-elizabeth-rush.html

RISING Dispatches from the New American Shore By Elizabeth Rush Illustrated. 299 pp. Milkweed Editions. $26. A drowned world: It’s an ancient fear and a very old story.

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Tue, 28 Aug 2018 05:33:38 -0700 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/books/review/rising-elizabeth-rush.html
<![CDATA[The racist language of space exploration | The Outline]]> https://theoutline.com/post/5809/the-racist-language-of-space-exploration

On Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence, head of the National Space Council, outlined plans for creating the “Space Force” that President Donald Trump envisions as a space-dedicated military branch, complete with space warfighters and weapons, by the year 2020.

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Wed, 15 Aug 2018 08:06:22 -0700 https://theoutline.com/post/5809/the-racist-language-of-space-exploration
<![CDATA[Why memes matter: our best shot to talk about the world in the post-truth era - Pulsar Platform]]> https://www.pulsarplatform.com/blog/2018/why-memes-matter-our-best-shot-to-talk-about-the-world-in-the-post-truth-era/

We have entered a post-truth, post-authenticity era, in which dichotomies like true/false or real/fake no longer serve us very well, especially on social media platforms.

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Sat, 07 Jul 2018 08:32:43 -0700 https://www.pulsarplatform.com/blog/2018/why-memes-matter-our-best-shot-to-talk-about-the-world-in-the-post-truth-era/
<![CDATA[AI Needs New Clichés – Molly Wright Steenson – Medium]]> https://medium.com/@maximolly/ai-needs-new-clichés-ed0d6adb8cbb

If you plug “AI” or “artificial intelligence” into Google Image Search, here’s what you get. Electric brains firing blue with neurons. Translucent robots and robot heads, code dribbling down their foreheads and noses.

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Mon, 11 Jun 2018 05:02:31 -0700 https://medium.com/@maximolly/ai-needs-new-clichés-ed0d6adb8cbb