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Tech vs arts/humanities

I was struck by the comment from Trevor Paglen in the Winter 2024 issue of Aperture that  The theory of perception underlying so much of AI and computer vision is shockingly bad from a humanities perspective.  There was a time in the “recent past” in which there was non-trivial overlap …

Curve Fitting and Understanding

Three ways of improving understanding: Curve Fitting, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): a not entirely monotonic scale of performance A working paper to help me think through the categories of capabilities that align with each Current technology seems to primarily consist of slick statistical correlations of the …