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01 JAN 2010
AI in the Media is Often Hype
I myself have worked on projects like machine vision algorithms that can detect human facial expressions in order to animate avatars or recognize individuals. Some would say these too are examples of A.I., but I would say it is research on a specific software problem that shouldn 1 
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01 JAN 2010
AI's and Algorithms Take Away Our Sense of Responsibility
the very idea of artificial intelligence gives us the cover to avoid accountability by pretending that machines can take on more and more human responsibility. This holds for things that we don 1 notes
notesWhen we allow an algorithm to make suggestions to us, and we accept them, we are giving up our own aesthetical choices.
01 JAN 2010
How the Global Brain Dehumanizes Us
Clay Shirky, a professor at New York University 1 notes
notesThe idea that retweets, wiki-contributions, blog posts, all form a collective brain turns us into mere synapses in the machine.
