Episode 127: Leaving the Mechanical Dollhouse: On Abeba Birhane's "The Impossibility of Automating Ambiguity"

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Introduction

00:00 • 3min

2

The Impossibility of Automating Ambiguity

03:05 • 3min

3

The Weirdness of Machine Learning

06:19 • 5min

4

The Importance of Digital Thinking

10:54 • 4min

5

Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge

14:33 • 2min

6

The Importance of Non-Fascist AI

17:01 • 5min

7

The Role of Category Making in Predictive Machine Learning

21:41 • 3min

8

The Closed Circle Versus the Spiral

24:41 • 3min

9

The Digital in Birhanese Thinking

28:04 • 3min

10

The Failure of AI Art Algorithms

31:23 • 6min

11

The History of Predictive AI

36:55 • 5min

12

The Importance of Improvisation

41:30 • 2min

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The Problem With Improvisation

43:04 • 5min

14

The AI System Replicates the Past

48:04 • 4min

15

Leibniz's Monodology

51:37 • 2min

16

The Importance of Elves in the Making of Machines

53:53 • 3min

17

The Relationship Between Existence and Reality

56:26 • 6min

18

The Universal Cognitive Equation of Human Existence

01:01:59 • 2min

19

The Data Subject: A Digital Doppelganger

01:03:32 • 5min

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The Dangers of Depriving People of the Opportunity to Contest and Protest Against Their Characterization

01:08:16 • 4min

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The Problem With Solutionism

01:12:41 • 3min