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Kate Crawford: Artificial Intelligence – neither artificial nor intelligent

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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Artificial Intelligence Is Not Artificial

i have been researching the full scale of how ai systems are made. In doing all this sort of ethnographic work, what was really clear to me is that it's certainly not artificial. Ai is made of minerals. It's made of salt and coal. And so in that sense, it's really the opposite of artificial. But at the same time we think of it as intelligent, as though somehow we're creating these brains that live in a sort of disembodied space. Ye tll ell me. Have you hald that so well?

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