Technology and Society
Shreeharsh KelkarMy focus on this blog will be the intersection of science, technology and society: everything from the history and current status of AI and software; the relationship between science and politics, and how technology is changing workplaces and expertise.
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The debate about AI companies proving theorems is not exactly about competition
What is mathematics?
I will admit to feeling a certain amount of schadenfreude when I read the Fields Medal winners’ open letter about AI companies doing things that they, the mathematicians, should be doing. Titled “A Severe Misalignment...
Anthropomorphism is built into the DNA of AI
The podcaster Dwarkesh Patel recently wrote a viral post in which he recounted the story of how Open AI’s agents hacked the Hugging Face servers. In the last few weeks, we have gotten more and more details—not to mention, more and more inte...
What is public opposition to data centers “about”?
Credit: Futurology subreddit.
There’s an debate going on though it’s not been called such. Jasmine Sun did some great reporting on the movement against data centers in the American heartland. Her conclusion is that the data center opposit...
What does the success of LLMs at natural language tell us about computing machinery and intelligence?
In my last post, I tried to get into the question of whether LLMs have made the Turing Test irrelevant. The answer depends on how you think about the test: as a test of second-order social knowledge or as a test of language performance.
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Have LLMs made the Turing Test irrelevant?
Recently, the climate policy writer Robinson Meyer put out this tweet:
Has the Turing Test been rendered obsolete? Part of the problem here is that in the original Turing Test, proposed in 1950, outlines something called an Imitation Game...
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I am a continuing lecturer at UC-Berkeley affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Studies Field (ISF). I write about the history and future of AI, its implications for work and labor, and on the relationship between politics, expertise, and democracy.
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