Repatterning » Repatterning 9/1 · Maya Indira Ganesh
Repatterning 9/1 · Maya Indira Ganesh July 16, 2023
Maya Indira Ganesh talks about language and metaphor, artificial intelligence and instinct, the flaws and costs of technology, and scoring societies.
“Moving away from the anthropomorphic metaphors of artificial intelligence signals, for me, a really valuable shift — saying that maybe can just think about this as computers, computing. Not computers trying to be like humans. Even things like ChatGPT are going to be useful in very specific and narrow kinds of applications. And it comes with all kinds of glitches and flaws and faults, and moments of breaking. Because it is just computers doing things. And they always break.”
Maya Indira Ganesh
Maya Indira Ganesh is a technology and digital cultures researcher, writer, and educator. She co-leads a Masters program on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society at Cambridge University, and also works as a writer and curator on art, culture, and AI.
Links:
- AI Anarchies
- MSt in AI Ethics and Society, University of Cambridge
- ChatGPT on Wikipedia
- OpenAI’s introduction to ChatGPT
- Murray Shanahan: “Talking About Large Language Models”
- Murray Shanahan on Wikipedia
- Ted Chiang: “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web” in The New Yorker
- Other Trains
- Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam
- Jennifer Bourne at Berggruen Institute
- Jennifer Bourne and Maya Indira Ganesh: “Between Threat and Tool: The Poetics and Politics of AI Metaphors and Narratives in China” in Reframing AI Governance: Perspectives from Asia (Digital Futures Lab, July 2022)
- Holo
- The Good Robot
- Jackie Wang and Ramon Amaro: “Anti-Computing: Models and Thought Experiments” (from AI Anarchies, documented by Holo Dossiers, October 2022)
- Jac sm Kee
- Tom Whipple: “The future is AI — but will it allow humans to play a part?” (The Times, February 2023)
- Meena Kandasamy: Tirukkural — The Book of Desire (Penguin, January 2023)
- A. K. Ramanujan
- Mindy Seu: Cyberfeminism Index
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