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FBL78: James Bridle - Using Nature to Rethink Artificial Intelligence

The Feedback Loop by Singularity

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The Potential for Total and Radical Change Within Machine Learning

A group called Taroar Media in in New Zealand who for the last few years have been using machine learning to build translation systems between Maori indigenous language and culture of New Zealand. They reached out to almost all the Maori language kind of organizations in New Zealand to gather this corpus of tag speech literally just asking people to record themselves reading particular sentences but they got a huge response so they were capable of building an engine that equaled in power ones built by kind of large corporations. There is always within these technologies the potential for kind of total and radical change and it deepens the argument against capitalism because you can really separate the effects of these technologies or the potential effects from the particular things that

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