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This remains true: it is not an engineering discipline. It's just deploying shoddy systems in inappropriate contexts, ignorant of (or sometimes reveling in) the externalized harms. What would it take to start doing engineering? Construct validity, adversarial audits, robust governance, and more.

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app

While we're on the topic of the machine learning Michael Jordan and his interview calling this hysteria around fictional machine gods for what it is, let me share with you this essay he wrote in 2018 where he was similarly spot on. medium.com/@mijordan3/a...

medium.comArtificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened YetArtificial Intelligence (AI) is the mantra of the current era. The phrase is intoned by technologists, academicians, journalists and…

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not my monkey's paw, not my serkis...

@notmymonkeymon.bsky.social

agentic ai are making great strides in astronomy, physics & medical diagnostic imaging. the intention/motivation determines the design. most generative ai is designed to be accessible slop for the general public because gen ai can't replace workers w/o other workers checking the ai's work.

Boxo McFoxo

@boxobark.ing

Construct validity would require them to stop pretending like it's a black box with emergent phenomena inside, and they won't do that because they'd rather LARP as machine biologists.