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• Free Writing 09_30_24 (TO)

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  Free Writing:

  • With what I understand now regarding AI I realize that I really had no clue what AI actually was before entering the class.
  • My understanding of AI prior to the course was that it scraped the internet 'learned' f
• Language Models Can only Write Poetry - Allison Parish (TO)

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  • There is a widespread apocalyptic fear among those who write literature about how these language models have become so strong and able to produce poetry (for example)
  • Parish goes as far as to claim that computers can only w
• On LLM-Clip

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  What can we use LLM-Clip for to do historical research?

  The most obvious after exploring LLM-Clip looks like taking archives/datasets/etc. and using vibe searches to find parallels and similarities among images for sorting purp

• Sept 30 - The Map Is Not the Territory

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  Computer systems - a confusion of map and territory

  • A question of semantics and understanding. The issues brought forward in Karawynn Long_Reading "Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence" about seeing language = i
• The Map and the Territory - Artificial Inelligence Being Taken as Actual Intelligence

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  The problem of AI is still very indistinct to me. Throughout the readings people have been twiddling their fingers and biting their fingernails worrying about the mass reproduction of biases into the architecture of society (as I

• There Was No ‘First AI Winter’ - Thomas Haigh (TO)

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  • Early AI as a branded effort to receive funding for computer science departments, but before too long was an important actual area of study.
  • Haigh explains that the ‘First AI winter’ (a period of downturn in AI research) is a
• Thought Experiment in the National Library of Thailand - Emily Bender (TO)

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  • Language models like ChatGPT only produce likely sequences of words, ‘If the text makes sense it is because we, the reader, make sense of it”
  • Systems cannot learn meaning but only form of language.
  • The linguistic forms creat
• Week 1 Readings - AL

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  There is a human element that is irreplaceable by AI, and an intelligence formed by human experience will never be completely replaceable by AI.

  There is no meaning behind the creations of AI, its simply fulfilling a request bas

• What Is ChatGPT Doing… And Why Does It Work - Stephen Wolfram (TO)

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  • Essentially what ChatGPT and other LLMs are doing is asking the question “Given the text so far, what should the next word be?” repeating this again and again after each new word based on the huge corpus of information that
• Note on Karawynn Long

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  About the author: Karawynn Long is a Mexico-based sci-fi and fantasy author and novelist. Very aware of her social standings and intersectionality.

  1. Heuristic as an adjective vs in psychology are very different. IE. learn
• Sg-Sept9

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  HIST4805a

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  Overall Plan for this Course

  • this course is an EXPERIMENT. Who knows where it'll lead?
  • who I am and why I'm interested in doing this ex