A fabulously gay blind author.sightlessscribbles.com
I forgot that I did eventually edit the first line of the book. It was originally, "I did not want to write this book."
Disabling Intelligences eBook is available now link.springer.com/book/10.1007…
Image text : I’ll be honest. When thinking about what books might live in me, this was never one of them. It was certainly not the book I thought I would write first. I never wanted to become known for artificial intelligence (AI) criticism at all. I want to sit in a lab and tinker with tech, building little gadgets that delight my disabled kin. I want to maintain surreptitious code bases of free little hacks that disrupt our perpetually inaccessible and downright-hostile world. I want to share disabled DIY specs through crumpled little zines posted in libraries and coffee houses. I want to run a free digital manufacturing center just for disabled people to come and build exactly what they want without a doctor, insurance company, or bank account telling them what body they’re allowed to have.
But in order to do that, I have to fight the inadequacies in technology policy and medical care. And in order to do that, I have to fight the AI industrial complex. Because underneath every insurance rejection is a predictive algorithm, behind every assistive technology is a data collection scheme, and now, behind every technology policy is an AI hype man.
#AI #AIhype #Disability #eugenics #metaeugenics
This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people.SpringerLink
those 3% requesting the #AIhype are probably bots from big tech corporations.
I am actually sorry I didn't discover Tutanota earlier.
After reading these medium term goals, I'm honestly glad I stopped donating because I know some corporate thing will sponsor them now they will/want to add AI, even an AI Chat bot, to NVDA.
The below are just 2, but there's more AI stuff they have planned.
• Integrated AI image description: Free, secure, performant, private and VI-focussed on-device AI image description available out of the box.
• Help chatbot prototype: Exploring the development of an AI-powered chatbot to provide instant support and answer frequently asked questions about NVDA.
The second one is particularly nonsensical.
#alttext #ai #accessibility #websites #socialmedia https://youtu.be/CHCK43D0jJ0An Alt-Opinon On Alt-Text. In this conversation, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece...YouTube
OpenAI may have tested on the training data. Besides, human benchmarks are meaningless for bots.Arvind Narayanan (AI Snake Oil)
Reading about #ChatGPT plug-ins and wondering why this is framed as plug-ins for #ChatGPT (giving it "capabilities") rather than #ChatGPT as a plug-in to provide a conversational front-end to other services.
Nevermind, I know why: This is #OpenAI yet again trying to sell their text synthesis machine as "an AI".
Strap in folks --- we have a blog post from @sundarpichai at @google about their response to #ChatGPT to unpack!
blog.google/technology/ai/bard…
Introducing Bard, Google's experimental conversational AI service powered by LaMDA — plus, new AI features in Search coming soon.Sundar Pichai (Google)
"Especially in this moment in history, it is vital that we provide our students with the critical thinking skills that will allow them to recognise misleading claims made by tech companies and understand the limits and risks of hyped and harmful technology that is made mainstream at a dazzling speed and on a frightening scale."
Excellent call to action by @Iris
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/01…
#AIhype #MathyMath #AI #ML #ChatGPT
Three weeks ago, I wrote a blogpost about how ChatGPT is a “stochastic parrot” (a term coined by Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major, & Shmitchell, 2021; see also this video for an explan…Iris van Rooij
