Posts Tagged ‘ai’
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Podcast (crealmvault): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:11:14 — 41.0MB)
The Dead Internet Theory: Sure, humans still post content to the internet, but it's mostly a Potemkin Village built and curated by AI. Has been since 2016. Or so goes one fringe notion which has undeniable emotional appeal. KMO* shares collected fragments on the topic and pastes in his own musings.
*the KMO AI is modeled after a real human podcaster who published under that sobriquet prior to 2017.
CRV 430
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After the conclusion of the conversation with Slava Borisov, KMO delves into the details of Google's smarty-pants chatbot, LaMDA. Does Blake Lemoine REALLY think the AI is sentient? If not, what's his real agenda?
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Podcast (crealmvault): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:04:39 — 37.5MB)
Here's a Vault episode that considers a conspiratorial take on the pandemic response and gives even more serious consideration to the class historical struggle between capitalists and workers over the topic of automation.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2020/05/28/book-review-the-technology-trap-capital-labor-and-power-in-the-age-of-automation/
561: The Future of Privacy and the Internet of Shit
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:07:56 — 39.0MB)
KMO speaks with Matthijs Pontier, a privacy advocate, AI researcher and politician in The Netherlands. The conversation starts with a focus on the Pirate Party and then moves through a discussion of the COVID-19 response measures, through surveillance capitalism and finally ends on a brief discussion on artificial intelligence.
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Podcast (crealmvault): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:32 — 22.2MB)
The interview with Philip, a Millennial, concludes in this episode, and then KMO riffs on the subject matter that he's been covering in his daily YouTube videos for half an hour.