I highlighted the excellent 4-part series What We Talk About When We Talk About AI by EmptyWheel in the most recent Sunday Morning Reading column. I’m linking to it again, because it is not only excellent in scope and content, but also depth and context that will be worth referring to as we continue to plunge, or be plunged, into a world increasingly confounded and defined by AI.
As I said, it’s a four part series. Here are links to each piece:
A NORMAL PERSON’S EXPLAINER ON WHAT GENERATIVE AI IS AND DOES
THE OTHER HALF OF THE AI RELATIONSHIP
PROTEINS, FACTORIES, AND WICKED SOLUTIONS
Repeating for my own emphasis something I’m saying lately, the pendulum of opinion about AI is swinging widely of late. The more ubiquitous it becomes the more we seeing opinions shift. Sometimes away from using it, but also seeing some who have been negative about using AI, reevaluating it as well.
That all seems natural to me given where we are with this new technology. Essentially in its infancy. A well funded infancy perhaps, but still teething, and shitting the bed on occasion.
Bookmark this series or save it where you will. I have a feeling it will be essential context in the short and long terms of this era we’re in.
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