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ChatGPT Reread Kierkegaard but still makes up cites
Posted Mar 17, 2023 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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Some Reasons to be Skeptical of AI Authorship, Part 3: Capitalism and Social Justice
By Gordon Hull In the previous two posts (here and here) I’ve developed a political account of authorship (according to which whether we should treat an AI as an author for journal articles and the like is a political question, not one about what the AI is, or whether its... Continue reading
Posted Feb 20, 2023 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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ChatGPT Putting Words in Sartre's Mouth
As if Sartre didn't produce enough words all by himself! ChatGPT's response to the following prompt is instructive for those of us who are concerned about ChatGPT being used to cheat. Read past the content of the answer to notice the made-up citations. The "consciousness is a question..." line is... Continue reading
Posted Feb 17, 2023 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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Some Reasons to be Skeptical of AI Authorship, Part 2: Accountability
By Gordon Hull As I argued last time, authorship is a political function, and we should be applying that construction of it to understand whether AI should be considered an author. Here is a first reason for doing so: AI can’t really be “accountable.” (a) Research accountability: The various journal... Continue reading
Posted Feb 13, 2023 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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ChatGPT Didn't Do the Kierkegaard Reading
Posted Feb 10, 2023 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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Come Study Philosophy in Charlotte!
Posted Feb 8, 2023 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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Some Reasons to be Skeptical of AI Authorship, Part 1: What is an (AI) Author?
By Gordon Hull Large Language Models (LLMs) like Chat-GPT burst into public consciousness sometime in the second half of last year, and Chat-GPT’s impressive results have led to a wave of concern about the future viability of any profession that depends on writing, or on teaching writing in education. A... Continue reading
Posted Feb 6, 2023 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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Gatecrashers, Blue Buses and Speeding Drivers: Philosophy of Law as a way into AI Accountability (part 2)
By Gordon Hull Last time, I introduced a number of philosophy of law examples in the context of ML systems and suggested that they might be helpful in thinking differently, and more productively, about holding ML systems accountable. Here I want to make the application specific. So: how do these... Continue reading
Posted Nov 3, 2022 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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Gatecrashers, Blue Buses and Speeding Drivers: Philosophy of Law as a way into AI Accountability (part 1)
By Gordon Hull AI systems are notoriously opaque black boxes. In a now standard paper, Jenna Burrell dissects this notion of opacity into three versions. The first is when companies deliberately hide information about their algorithms, to avoid competition, maintain trade secrets, and to guard against gaming their algorithms, as... Continue reading
Posted Oct 25, 2022 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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Foucault and Epistemic Injustice (Part 3)
In the previous two posts (first, second), I took up the invitation provided by a recent paper by Daniele Lorenzini to develop some thoughts on the relationship between Foucault’s thought and theorizing around epistemic injustice. In particular, Miranda Fricker’s account both draws heavily from Foucault and pushes back against his... Continue reading
Posted Oct 17, 2022 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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New Paper: How Foucault got rid of (Bossy) Marxism
Now published in Critical Review. Here's the abstract: Foucault distanced himself from Marxism even though he worked in an environment—left French theory of the 1960s and 1970s—where Marxism was the dominant frame of reference. By viewing Foucault in the context of French Marxist theoretical debates of his day, we can... Continue reading
Posted Oct 10, 2022 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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Foucault and Epistemic Injustice (Part 2)
By Gordon Hull Last time, I took the opportunity provided by a recent paper by Daniele Lorenzini to develop some thought on the relationship between Foucault’s thought and theorizing around epistemic injustice. Lorenzini’s initial point, with which I agree fully, is that Fricker’s development of epistemic injustice is, on her... Continue reading
Posted Oct 4, 2022 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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Foucault and Epistemic Injustice (part 1)
By Gordon Hull Those of us who have both made extensive use of Foucault and made a foray into questions of epistemic injustice have tended to sweep the question of the relation between the two theoretical approaches under the rug. Miranda Fricker’s book, which has basically set the agenda for... Continue reading
Posted Sep 27, 2022 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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More on Covid Patents and global inequality
I wrote a piece a little more than a year ago about how intellectual property rights are getting in the way of global vaccine equity, condemning a lot of people to die in lower-income countries. There have been various initiatives to address the situation. A piece in Nature by Amy... Continue reading
Posted Jul 13, 2022 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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New Paper: Epistemic Injustice in Machine Learning Systems
From the Department of Shameless Self-Promotion, here is the abstract for my new paper, "Dirty Data Labeled Dirt Cheap: Epistemic Injustice in Machine Learning Systems:" "Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) systems increasingly purport to deliver knowledge about people and the world or to assist people in doing so.... Continue reading
Posted Jun 20, 2022 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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Just because the computer talks to you about its feelings doesn’t make it sentient
By Gordon Hull UPDATE: 6/14: Here's a nice takedown ("Nonsense on Stilts") of the idea that AI can be sentient. I don’t remember where I read about an early text-based chatbot named JULIA, but it was likely about 20 years ago. JULIA played a flirt, and managed to keep a... Continue reading
Posted Jun 13, 2022 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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Base Rate Tracking often can’t fix algorithmic fairness
By Gordon Hull As a criterion for algorithmic assessment, “fairness” has encountered numerous problems. Many of these emerged in the wake of ProPublica’s argument that Broward County’s pretrial detention system, COMPAS, was unfair to black suspects. To recall: In 2016, ProPublica published an investigation piece criticizing Broward County, Florida’s use... Continue reading
Posted May 19, 2022 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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Clearview settles Facial Recognition Case
Luke Stark argues that Facial recognition should be treated as the “plutonium of AI” – something so dangerous that it’s use should be carefully controlled and limited. If you follow the news, you’ll know that we’re currently treating it as the carbon dioxide of AI, a byproduct of profit-making that... Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2022 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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Yet another terrible AI idea
People make snap judgments about those they see the first time – mentally categorizing someone as friendly, threatening, trustworthy, etc. Most of us know that those impressions are idiosyncratic, and suffused with cultural biases along race, gender and other lines. So obviously I know what you’re thinking… we need an... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2022 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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Copyright Office gets this right...
in refusing to grant copyright registration to an AI creation. I suspect this one to be litigated for a while, since the person who has been trying to get protection for the picture has declared limiting copyright to human authors as something that would be unconstitutional (I also think it... Continue reading
Posted Feb 18, 2022 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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AI Colonialism
First read this piece by Abeba Birhane, who warns about neocolonial exploitation of people in Africa by AI and big tech. Then read this detailed account of content moderation for Facebook in Kenya and abuse of the workers involved. Continue reading
Posted Feb 14, 2022 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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IRS to start using Facial Recogntion Technology
If you want to use their website; WaPo has the story here. But it's one of those public/private partnerships where data leaks and hacks and thefts happen. To their credit, the Post went to Joy Buolamwini, whose work proved that facial recognition systems work best on white men and worst... Continue reading
Posted Jan 27, 2022 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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SCOTUS and Social Murder
The SCOTUS decision yesterday striking down OSHA’s vaccine mandate is based on some of the most sophomoric reasoning the Court has issued in a long time. And I am aware of what Court I’m talking about. The gist of the argument is that OSHA is only authorized to enact safety... Continue reading
Posted Jan 14, 2022 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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Can Datasets be Governed Like Public Utilities?
By Gordon Hull Machine Learning (ML) applications learn by repetition. That is, they come to recognize what, say, a chair looks like, by seeing lots of images of chairs that have been correctly labeled as such. Since the machine is trying to figure out a pattern or set of characteristics... Continue reading
Posted Dec 8, 2021 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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For the Record...
This is not what critical race theory says: "Critical race theory, Guelzo says, is a subset of critical theory that began with Immanuel Kant in the 1790s. It was a response to — and rejection of — the principles of the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason on which the... Continue reading
Posted Nov 12, 2021 at New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
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