From 1c36dcde857f15e2997d7de3c772d7da5ebbd581 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: james Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:39:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'content/experiment/imagine-a-machine-listening-utopia.md' --- content/experiment/imagine-a-machine-listening-utopia.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/experiment/imagine-a-machine-listening-utopia.md b/content/experiment/imagine-a-machine-listening-utopia.md index fd43af6..d33545d 100644 --- a/content/experiment/imagine-a-machine-listening-utopia.md +++ b/content/experiment/imagine-a-machine-listening-utopia.md @@ -1 +1,5 @@ -TITLE: Imagine a Machine Listening Utopia \ No newline at end of file +TITLE: 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? + +Exercise \ No newline at end of file