Dr Abeba Birhane
Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
- i finally started working out (after threatening to do it for past 10 yrs) so now I'm gonna be one of those people who choses hotels based on gym facilities when i travel
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- I think because capitalism is so set up to reward crooks and corrupts, it's unlikely for those not corrupt to hoard billions
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- time to repost this
- we've written about this in the past firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
- a. neural. network. is. not. a. dog
- and it's okay to have the desire to personify robots. just don't mistake your projection and desire for inherent qualities of a machine
- This appears to be the underlying basis for most advocacy of #robotrights / personification of chatbots etc. Calling this relationalism just masks the fact that human desires / perceptions produce the effects: it is the wish-fulfilling transfer of human (or simply, living) qualities to machines.
- putting aside how contemptuous this is towards writers, it puzzles me to see people treat these models as sentient
