From 160696ba192dadf1757fec673821835e8a321f30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: james Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:43:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'content/experiment/imagine-a-machine-listening-utopia.md' --- content/experiment/imagine-a-machine-listening-utopia.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/experiment/imagine-a-machine-listening-utopia.md b/content/experiment/imagine-a-machine-listening-utopia.md index bd3cb88..c675f75 100644 --- a/content/experiment/imagine-a-machine-listening-utopia.md +++ b/content/experiment/imagine-a-machine-listening-utopia.md @@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ title: "Imagine a Machine Listening Utopia" # Imagine a Machine Listening Utopia -Imagining a machine listening dystopia is easy. We already live in one. We are frogs in a pot of water while it boils. In *City of Silence*, the Chinese science fiction writer Ma Bayong imagines a community trying to communicate beneath the threshold of audibility: to learn to speak in silence. But what would a machine listening utopia be like? How would it sound? Is a machine listening utopia even possible? Or does the thoughtlessness baked into deep learning tend towards Fascism, as Dan McQuillan contends? +Imagining a machine listening dystopia is easy. We already live in one, like frogs in a pot of water as it boils. In *City of Silence*, the Chinese science fiction writer Ma Bayong imagines a community trying to communicate beneath the threshold of audibility: to learn to speak in silence. But what would a machine listening utopia be like? How would it sound? Is a machine listening utopia even possible? Or does the thoughtlessness baked into deep learning tend towards Fascism, as Dan McQuillan contends? Exercise \ No newline at end of file