From 41d585aa568bb858af6db9f84c81a6347113591b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: james Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:43:11 +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 d33545d..bd3cb88 100644 --- a/content/experiment/imagine-a-machine-listening-utopia.md +++ b/content/experiment/imagine-a-machine-listening-utopia.md @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ -TITLE: Imagine a Machine Listening Utopia +--- +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?