Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Daytime session at Sherigu Community Library
- La deuxième journée des activités de café littéraire à la bibliothèque de Boni
- Échanges avec la nouvelle gérante de la bibliothèque de Koho
- Reprise des activités de la bibliothèque mobile Pénélope
- Sortie de la Bibliothèque Mobile Pénélope à l’école Sainte Thérèse
- Bonne nouvelle pour les amoureux de la lecture à Niankorodougou
- Bibliothèque communautaire de Zimtenga ! Les livres attendent patiemment le retour des communautés
- Bilan des activités du mois d’août de la bibliothèque de Bougounam
- Bilan des premières journées du café littéraire
- Nyariga community library, daytime activities
Category Archives: AI
Random quick thoughts on AI
In conversation with a friend….I think “unemployment” and “no paid work” are the wrong likely descriptors of 2050…. possible, but unlikely…. For it to be likely, to me, one would have to lean harder on the dystopia…. the rich and … Continue reading
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AI as an existential threat – Kevane preliminary draft
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“What can it do?” A living list of computational problems that deep learning/AI/neural nets can or seems likely to “do” (at varying cost and efficacy)
It goes without saying that the suite of AI-related software technologies (which seem to be constantly repackaged and redefined) are very good at playing most strategy games and defeating grand-masters at the games. I don’t really know how anyone could … Continue reading
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The typical popular sci-fi version of AI posing an existential risk?
Plenty of science-fiction stories and movies have as plot the defeat of a super-intelligent and autonomous AI that poses an existential threat to humans. In the usual backstory, the AI at some point developed goals that seemingly impelled the AI … Continue reading
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AI productivity growth and “the economy”
I’m preparing for a course I am teaching, so am intending to start regularly writing on the blog as a way to livestream my thoughts. Hopefully, I will maintain momentum for a long while. My first thoughts, while reading Nordhaus’s … Continue reading
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