AI Free From Ideological Bias?

“We must develop AI systems that are free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas,” the President’s executive order said in mid-January, as it introduced biases of misjudgment, error, stereotyping, and the primacy of unfettered and unaccountable corporate profitability into the development of AI systems.

In Defense of AI-Generated Fiction?

Award-winning writer Jeanette Winterson thinks that an AI model can write good fiction and that we need more of it. She goes on to wax poetically about AI being an “other” intelligence and that, since human beings are trained on data, AI provides “alternative ways of seeing.” Ugh.

Do We Really Want AI That Thinks Like Us?

DeepSeek threw the marketplace into a tizzy last week with its low-cost LLM that works better than ChatGPT and its other competitors. But the company’s ultimate goal is the same as that of Open AI and the rest: build a machine that thinks like a human being. The achievement is labelled AGI, for “Artificial General Intelligence.”

Insane AI

Slowly, we’re being conditioned to see bias and inaccuracies as artifacts of opinion or process, not facts. A mad AI may well be viewed as no worse than our friends and family members whose ideas and beliefs are demonstrably wrong or nutty (though utterly right to them).