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“The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence”…
— Jean Baudrillard
obfuscate
/ˈɒb.fʌs.keɪt/ ˈɑːb.fə.skeɪt
to throw into shadow
confuse
to be evasive, unclear, or confusing
to make something less clear and harder to understand, especially intentionally
Please read and watch :
Is AI making you dumb? - Niall Ferguson: What Technophiles Should Learn from Medieval Universities [ LINK ];
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The Computer-Science Bubble is Bursting - Is the snake eating its own tail? (i.e. an Ouroborus that will lead to its own Self-Destruction) - Artificial intelligence is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it [LINK];
Enshittification is coming for absolutely everything [ LINK ] - We are all trapped in the ‘enshittification’ of the internet [ LINK ] - The Imminent Enshittification of the Internet: LLMs are creating a huge sanitation problem that will probably never be solved [ LINK ]; and
Tech companies are turning to ‘synthetic data’ to train AI models – but there’s a hidden cost [ LINK ].
“The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!”…
— Rene Magritte
Please read - A Semiotic Painting Magritte's point was to remind viewers that his representation of oil smeared on parchment is not a pipe. It is a symbol [ LINK ]
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