Just reading the title, sounded like a great way to automate racism.
And then I read:
This is just AI Phrenology, a continuation of the “scientific racism” movement that was invented to provide a justification for colonialism, slavery, genocide and eugenics
So uh yea, doesn’t seem like a great idea.
Ahh, phrenology is apparently scientific if you do it with AI?
I fucking hate this timeline
It was “scientific” when they’d “confirm” it with stats.
What they call AI today is a family of obscure statistical instruments pretending to carry truth in that trait alone.
No, other than having stats you should also know and be capable of proving how those stats apply to the task at hand.
And they use the all-powerful electronic computation machine as a piece of technomagic to give it credibility.
Have you read Klemperer’s book on Third Reich’s language? I recommend it highly. Nazis used a lot of names for their policies, the subtle semantics of which are usually lost when translating from German. They used terms from radio and from automobile industry, for example.
Those who produce MBAs at it again.
I used to joke about, but there really is MBA-> fascism pipeline going on
When your education revolves around dehumanizing people and turning them into abstract numbers, it’s not that far of a leap, unfortunately.
I don’t know which machine learning textbook it was, but in the first few pages of it, the author warns about the stupidity and dangers of this exact same thing 🤷♂️
We are one step closer to building the AI that can determine which one is cuter: a specific photo of a kitten or one of a puppy. Just imagine what you could do with such technology!
Parasites always trying to justify their own existence
Yeah what could possibly go wrong?
Great article, you should x-post to !aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
Shitty title. Business school professors claim they trained an AI to judge workers’ personalities based on their faces.
The article talks about why that is such a stupid and terrible proposal.
They’ve been doing this with “natural intelligence” for ages.
