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When did merchants and their agents become "content creators"?
This is CONSUMERISM, not capitalism.
And yes, it is bad on many counts.
Needs a lot of effective counterpropaganda.
Rational arguments are not enough, by far.
BBC article:
Cosmeticorexia: How girls are falling down a skincare rabbit hole
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx212x41evwo>
Boats, locomotives, robots.
But should we insist on "she" or "they"?
«BMW has also used a Boston Dynamics Spot robot, which is shaped like a dog, as a maintenance watchdog.
"He had to be able to walk stairs," says Nikolaides[, head of process management and digitalisation at BMW]. "He was able to go down to the basement where a lot of machinery was."»
Of course, if Nikolaides spoke German, he may have simply matched the gender of "robot", which may well be masculine in German (as it is in Czech and other Slavic languages).
BBC article:
BMW says humanoid robots are the future of car production
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgmpwzzvxr2o>
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗦𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆" 𝗯𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻 -
Mullen's poetry is at first playful, full or puns and puzzles: wordplay. But then, along the way, somewhere between reference books, other patterns emerge!
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #harryettemullen #sleepingwiththedictionary #poetry #wordplay #language #sapirwhorf #referencebooks #dictionary #wordgames
What if…
As far as comprehension and accuracy is concerned, we use a sophisticated LLM to do something like chain of thought but in doing so we also have it translate both the initial prompt and the CoT from (eg) English into a diverse range of other languages
All this is with the aim of retrying the result using different language prompts in an ongoing way, analyse the agreement or spread of the results, as a guide to likely accuracy.
Because, it could well be that if you give a prompt in English, you get a quite different result from an otherwise equivalent prompt in French, the Gaelics, Maltese, Chinese, Russian, Hungarian, Japanese, Mongolian and so many more, etc. Is one language “better” than another for prompting? It may be that on a contingency level, ie, per individual prompt, the LLM “understands” it differently per language – obviously it won’t be completely different but there may be subtle shifts in the task and reward, enough to make a difference to accuracy or depth. Creating a wide array of alternative choices at each step of the CoT may improve the situation by a sort of “voting/sampling” stage to choose the best result before moving forward.
It'd be vaguely like Sapir-Whorf hypothesis to gain a higher requisite variety of tokenisation richness.
#LLM #AI #language #SapirWhorf #CoT
Thanks to @smellsofbikes for reminding me this little pearler exists:
LANGUAGE!
#FryAndLaurie #Language #SapirWhorf #Linguistics #Philosophy #IDIC
Good podcast by @hiphilangsci on linguistic relativity and the origins of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: https://hiphilangsci.net/2023/04/01/podcast-episode-31/
#linguistics #language #LinguisticRelativity #SapirWhorf #podcast #HistoryOfScience
Un día como hoy (1884), nace el antropólogo y lingüista estadounidense Edward Sapir. Su trabajo al día de hoy sigue teniendo influencia y generando debates acalorados. En especial, la hipótesis Sapir-Whorf que se le atribuye y ha sido de inspiración para la ciencia ficción (p.e. Arrival) y diversas disciplinas académicas.
#linguistics
#anthropology
#EdwardSapir
#SapirWhorf
I think it's more that if they do care about #AIBias and point it out, they tend to get fired by their techbro bosses who have a hardon for anything labelled "AI," "crypto" or "quantum."
All the -isms are in the datasets, they're just a mirror of our society.
As ever, I return to #IainMBanks and #Marain, #SapirWhorf and #NeoStructuralism.
Another world is possible. But *we* have to build it. Starting with datasets created for change.
Never would I have imagined, while taking undergrad linguistics in 2016, that the highlight of my day would be arguing the finer points of Sapir-Whorf with a snarky Norwegian. 😂
#MastoLife
#FediFriends
#SapirWhorf
(Now I really need an image of Worf holding a spear ;)
@sotolf @benjaminhollon
Also tagging @joel to be annoying. ;D
