Buolamwini is a computer scientist from MIT, who rose to stardom while doing research proving how artificial intelligence programs were trained on very skewed and distorted amounts of data. As Buolamwini does research on artificial intelligence in image processing, she discovers how algorithmic bias underlies many programs, and the coded gaze excludes her own face from being detected by an AI program.
Tag: Artifical Intelligence
Harvesting US agencies for Grok?
Few have escaped the unconstitutional encroachments of Elon Musk(olini) into US agencies, with his team of followers – presumably harvesting data on the population for the faltering Grok AI.
A visit to Brussels
In October our class went to Belgium with the purpose of visiting the European Week of Regions and Cities 2024 during our course on the European Union. We lived in Mechelen, a nice city north of Brussels.
Book review: The Alignment Problem
Probably you’ve heard about reinforcement learning in conversations on AI. It originates from psychology and animal behaviourism, like so many other parts of the field of AI (neural networks and temporal differences are two others), while others touch philosophical issues and conundrums humans have pondered on for centuries. Brian Christian, like Johan Harri, travels the world to interview lots of people about how to get machines to understand and obey humans.
On long, hard thoughts
Right now The Ezra Klein Show has a series of podcast episodes on artificial intelligence (just like early 2023). Yesterday I listened to the discussion with Nilay Patel (of course I recommend it). Among the things they discussed was how hard thinking was at risk of being discarded with the introduction of A.I. programs such as ChatGPT 4 or Claude.
Book review: Quantum Supremacy
Lately, I’ve become interested in quantum computing and wrote a short paper on the subject, combining the search for quantum computers and equality. As a brief introduction I bought Michio Kaku’s new book.After some initially wild assertions Michio Kaku delves into the real stuff: quantum theory and quantum mechanics and it gets exciting!