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critical AI essay olivia science

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“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/” evidence ↗
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“"AI literacy" is like "cigarette literacy" explaining how to light up with swagger. What we need is critical AI literacy (see olivia.science/ai/ from @olivia.science), which is a completely different curriculum. One that is liberating.”

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Olivia Guest: There's no engineering reason for human shaped robots other than that one actually. And there's so many engineering reasons against. The sooner people realise it has always been true & sexist (oliv…
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Thomas Dietterich: My colleague Jonathan Hurst (at Agility Robotics) has a long list of reasons why humanoid robots make sense. For years he was opposed to humanoids, but he found that for lifting and carrying loads,…
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Matthew Kirschenbaum VE, cybersocial occult investigator Pavel
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“Whether it is falsified citations and social research based off of synthetic stand-ins, to militaries misacting on generated information, to people becoming lost in make-believe worlds and ending t…” evidence ↗
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: An interesting thing about AI, that we've classified under everything from hallucinations, to slop, psychosis, and unaccountability, is that it is creating a virtual world of appearances without co…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Whether it is falsified citations and social research based off of synthetic stand-ins, to militaries misacting on generated information, to people becoming lost in make-believe worlds and ending t…
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