I can’t stop thinking about this bike line I rode on along the waterfront in Seattle. I almost cried.
This is pretty fun!
Jacqueline Antonovich
Tonight, 7:30 pm (ET)
Tonight, 7:30 pm (ET)
One of the things I research is the cooperation of cultural institutions like museums in pitching tech products--specifically AI--to the public. This is advertising for the capacity of AI to educate and thus to reshape education itself as a project better left to private tech companies. 1/n
they've digitally enslaved frederick douglass
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In this case we have a public-private partnership between "MA250, the state [org] responsible for celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence" & Timelooper "Interpretive Experience Design firm" per their website along w participation of other start-ups. 2/n
Rode a bike in a place that didn't allow cars and now I'm convinced we need this everywhere
So it's normalizing AI as a legit educational aid. That's the point, and that's my main point too. But I do have one more thing to add, and it's this.
The president of the Museum of African American History said the following to allay some concerns. This is a common defense. 6/n
The defense is: "we use a vetted set of authorized texts for the purposes of training AI to generate responses to questions." Aside from the uncanny valley horror of necromancy that such automated history-telling incites, there's also the issue of sources being processed like this w/o context. 7/n
