#slow-ai — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #slow-ai, aggregated by home.social.
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Making Sense of Slow AI zine by AIxDesign
https://aixdesign.metalabel.com/slow-ai-zine
"What if AI didn’t run on Silicon Valley logic? Making Sense of Slow AI, compiles 40 pages of eclectic stories on Small, Esoteric, and Ancestral AI – inviting you to think small, make it magical, and plan for the past."
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Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning
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#FF2024 ended with a literal bang in the form of Triptych, EDM+AV Mechanical Synaesthesia, by Robin Fox. It was loud, intense, immersive, and what could only be described as an unforgettable "trip" 🔥🔥🤩💫💥. Nothing I've ever experienced before. A reimagining. In many ways, that was one of the main threads at #FF2024 - deliberate and cautious approach, ask questions, be more conscientious, do #SlowAI if possible. Certainly a reimagining of how AI projects have been done post-Kraken 🐙 👹🧌.
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Kirsten: On #SlowAI and "Just chill". Cultural understanding of time and space and slowing down. Fear of inertia.
Lauren: Yarning as methodology. "Isn't this just a focus group?" Yes, it does sound like it. But it's much much more. It encapsulates relationality btw research participant and researchers, conflict of interest. Recognising of prior relationship. Adds another layer or accountability. It needs to be Indigenous-led, can't just tack something on.
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James Smithies & Karaitiana Taiuru – Large Language Models and Transnational Research: Introducing the AI as Infrastructure (AIINFRA) Project.
Goal to have an evaluation framework for AI as a research tool. #SlowAI. Incorporate indigenous knowledge protocols. Sources: Hansard 1901 from UK, Aus and NZ.
Aotearoa - Data sovereignty principles created by elders and community, not by academics.
Abstract at https://sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/news/fantastic-futures-2024-papers#h.ytx09syhqiuq #AIINFRA #AI4LAM #FF2024
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Get used to the idea of "Slow AI". Hallucinations make AI no better than people (who also hallucinate, are inaccurate, make mistakes...) What #AI can do is mark candidates (and yes hallucinate!) faster than humans. AIs revolutionary difference will be found in research, data science, medicine, engineering, materials science, on and on. The #slow part is, researchers have to carefully prove out which candidates (for a drug, for a new crystal) are actually safe and efficacious. #SlowAI #Science
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Another person who has been contributing to the #SlowAI meme is of course @pluralistic :
locusmag.com/2015/07/cory-doct…
In addition to Stross, Doctorow credits Ted Chiang:
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CW: Long thread/8
CEOs know that they don't actually run their companies, and it haunts them, because while they can decompose a company into all its constituent elements - capital, labor, procedures - they can't get this model-train set to go around the loop:
Stross calls corporations #SlowAI, a pernicious artificial life-form that acts like a pedantic genie, always on the hunt for ways to destroy you while still strictly following your directions.
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CW: Long thread/eof
As has been the case since the time of the Luddites, the issue isn't what the machine does, it's who it does it *for* and who it does it *to*.
After all, as @cstross points out, a corporation is just a #SlowAI, remorselessly paperclip-maximizing its way through the lives and joy of the flesh-and-blood people who constitute its inconvenient gut-flora:
https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future#video&t=3478
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LA Times
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Some recommended reading on #SlowAI and more intentional approaches to technology development:
Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement: https://spectrum.ieee.org/timnit-gebru-dair-ai-ethics
Let's think about slowing down AI: https://worldspiritsockpuppet.substack.com/p/lets-think-about-slowing-down-ai
How Many Jobs Will AI Destroy? As Many As We Tell It To: https://partnershiponai.org/how-many-jobs-will-ai-destroy-as-many-as-we-tell-it-to/
