#polytechs — Public Fediverse posts
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I am listening to a podcast called Polytechs (politechs.dev) where the hosts interview Dr E. Bender (Computational Linguistics academic, podcaster and author) to talk about Rhetorical technology (all things #AI in this podcast) and besides the reasoned discussion about #GenAISlop and #LLMs in general, which I found most interesting, I was astounded by the amount of research that is available on AI, #GenAI and artificial general intelligence ( #AGI) wondering how is it that none of this material makes the light of day in our public forum discussion or any #NewsOutlets whatsoever. Made me realize how manipulated we all are to think that #GenAI — or as Dr Bender calls Text Extruding machines — is a revolutionary technology that will answer all of our questions.
Dr Bender also talks about the #Racism and #Eugenics that lies behind the historic antecedents of GenAI and the #TechBros push to sell it to us. The discussion also looked at the idea that GenAI #Hallucinates and proposed other words to better reflect what these machines actually produce (Hint: they certainly do not hallucinate).
I was also very receptive to Dr Bender’s #Definition of AI, she says that it is simply a #MarketingTerm and has nothing to do with #Intelligence (artificial or otherwise). I view #ChatGPT and the likes as stochastic word and part-word ordering machines using statistical engines to parsing large uncurated document repositories in a non-deterministic way.
Well worth a listen:
https://politechs.dev/episodes/s02-rhet-tech/#DrEmilyBender #Polytechs #Linguistics #ComputationalLinguistics
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I am listening to a podcast called Polytechs (politechs.dev) where the hosts interview Dr E. Bender (Computational Linguistics academic, podcaster and author) to talk about Rhetorical technology (all things #AI in this podcast) and besides the reasoned discussion about #GenAISlop and #LLMs in general, which I found most interesting, I was astounded by the amount of research that is available on AI, #GenAI and artificial general intelligence ( #AGI) wondering how is it that none of this material makes the light of day in our public forum discussion or any #NewsOutlets whatsoever. Made me realize how manipulated we all are to think that #GenAI — or as Dr Bender calls Text Extruding machines — is a revolutionary technology that will answer all of our questions.
Dr Bender also talks about the #Racism and #Eugenics that lies behind the historic antecedents of GenAI and the #TechBros push to sell it to us. The discussion also looked at the idea that GenAI #Hallucinates and proposed other words to better reflect what these machines actually produce (Hint: they certainly do not hallucinate).
I was also very receptive to Dr Bender’s #Definition of AI, she says that it is simply a #MarketingTerm and has nothing to do with #Intelligence (artificial or otherwise). I view #ChatGPT and the likes as stochastic word and part-word ordering machines using statistical engines to parsing large uncurated document repositories in a non-deterministic way.
Well worth a listen:
https://politechs.dev/episodes/s02-rhet-tech/#DrEmilyBender #Polytechs #Linguistics #ComputationalLinguistics
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Penny Simmonds has announced the ten winners of the National Party's "Is Your Polytech Self-Financing" contest. As expected, it includes all the big players.
Simmonds admits that Te Pūkenga was in surplus, but said that was because the "duplication of bureaucracy" in the head office had gone.
So despite Te Pūkenga saving money, the Nats are smashing it into pieces again and reduplicating ten smaller bureaucracies.
I suspect Penny is vibe-governing.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/otago-polytechnic-sit-return-regional-governance
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Penny Simmonds has announced the ten winners of the National Party's "Is Your Polytech Self-Financing" contest. As expected, it includes all the big players.
Simmonds admits that Te Pūkenga was in surplus, but said that was because the "duplication of bureaucracy" in the head office had gone.
So despite Te Pūkenga saving money, the Nats are smashing it into pieces again and reduplicating ten smaller bureaucracies.
I suspect Penny is vibe-governing.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/otago-polytechnic-sit-return-regional-governance