Most AI is not artificial or intelligent | James Bridle and Cory Doctorow

How has computation come to dominate everyday life? And why do a small number of people and companies dominate computation? James Bridle speaks to Cory Doctorow about AI as a big hype market, what “Big Tech” fears the most, and the tools required to imagine and build radical alternatives.
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future by James Bridle is out now www.versobooks.com/products/6...
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation by Cory Doctorow is out now
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[@kaffeeringe]

In real life we have got all these great methods with which to discuss, find solutions and include diverse voices. In commercial social media it's always the loudest voice that dominates.

[@Other3.5]

Very informative video. I hope at some point we stop using the term "political will." Decades ago it had meaning. We have a Lobbyist to Legislator ratio in Washington DC of 35 to 1 (almost all corporate lobbyists). So each elected legislator has 35 corporate interest personnel telling them what corporations will or will not support (and in some cases writing legislation - see ALEC). So it's not "political will," it's now "corporate lobbyist will." Once we start saying what it really is, it might help us with getting corporate money out if our political system.

[@rabidbigdog]

There are groups researching 'poisoning' AI, which I think is fascinating.

[@gitbuh12345qwerty]

It's totally stopping us, too.

[@hyperdude144]

Eye, trying top increase raining error. However, the corpos are aware of AI poisoning. So we need an arms race. On the plus side, you can get an AI to reveal its prompts!

[@galaxyexpress998]

Freedom of movement is by far the most important thing.

[@johnthejudoka]

I do agree that content creation is different from consumption, psychologically, on an individual level.

[@ClaytonLivsey]

This talk was very easy to listen to

[@namethathasntbeentakenyetm3682]

Nice

[@julisplett2748]

One problem I see is people using AI to write text for them and not understanding how it would erode their own ability to write and think for themselves.

[@chris8949]

Digital Transfoirmation is a nonsence game without innovation and future, it is just business ...

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

The is the _best_ solution to these issues: All types of intellectual property laws must be fully abolished immediately, in any and all jurisdictions worldwide ✊ As an aside, IP laws were relatively young at Karl Marx’s time. He was unaware of how they worked, so he didn’t address them at all or about how they negatively affect the working class. Against Intellectual Monopoly is the most informative book humanity has on the subject now. Against Intellectual Property is another incredible essay, but it’s written from a right-libertarian perspective so if you’re leftist like me you’ll have to read with an open mind and extract what’s helpful.

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

I have a playlist of the best videos on (IP) intellectual property on my channel for all interested.