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Thank you to everyone already reading, sharing, and applying these ideas. Let’s keep pushing the boundaries of what machine learning can trust.

#MachineLearning #UncertaintyQuantification #ConformalPrediction #AI #DataScience #ML #PolitecnicoDiMilano #3xAuthor

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"This paper advances the critical analysis of machine learning by placing it in direct relation with actuarial science as a way to further draw out their shared epistemic politics. The social studies of machine learning—along with work focused on other broad forms of algorithmic assessment, prediction, and scoring—tends to emphasize features of these systems that are decidedly actuarial in nature, and even deeply actuarial in origin. Yet, those technologies are almost never framed as actuarial and then fleshed out in that context or with that connection. Through discussions of the production of ground truth and politics of risk governance, I zero in on the bedrock relations of power-value-knowledge that are fundamental to, and constructed by, these technosciences and their regimes of authority and veracity in society. Analyzing both machine learning and actuarial science in the same frame gives us a unique vantage for understanding and grounding these technologies of governance. I conclude this theoretical analysis by arguing that contrary to their careful public performances of mechanical objectivity these technosciences are postmodern in their practices and politics."

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

"AI as Normal Technology" — a timely and important inquiry into the social hazards of #AI. Among other points, the authors reject "fast takeoff" scenarios and describe what's dangerous about the "superintelligence" framing —TL;DR "drastic interventions premised on the difficulty of controlling superintelligent AI will, in fact, make things much worse if AI turns out to be normal technology."

Link: aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-as-normal-

AI Snake Oil · AI as Normal TechnologyBy Arvind Narayanan
#ML#AGI#policy

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I try not to get stuck in absolute skepticism of AI, and enjoyed this article…

"What does it mean to reason? What does it mean to understand? What does it mean to be original? […] Perhaps we’re all stochastic parrots reciting obscure passages and contending things like a first year grad student. […] I guess my best answer to all this is to try to achieve a sort of meta-recognition of your own unoriginality, while still persisting in it."

inferencemagazine.substack.com

Inference · The Parrot is DeadBy Jack Wiseman
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Examples:

  • Bad: Using AI chatbot to talk to customers so the CEO and shareholders can make more money by firing customer support personnel.
  • Good: Using an AI transcriber to note down patient conversations, so the doctor can spend less time on admin, and more time treating patients.

And...

  • Useful: Using AI to write emails, plan meetings, write notes, generate reports...
  • Useless: Using AI to provide random facts or search results.
  • Obstructive: Whatever the fuck Snapchat and WhatsApp is doing.

It's not as black & white as the pretense on Fedi makes it seem. Technology is never inherently good or bad, but the uses of it can be.