Playing with Riff (riff.quest) - a tiny NLP tool framed as office hours with a professor.
Tried a question without hard and fast answer; who are the "leading" anthropologists on AI?
Predictably vague answers. Decent summary of Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto though
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To compare I plugged the same framing and question into OpenAI's GPT-3 and got slightly less accurate results – in that all the anthros cited are only relevant to AI in the most hand-wavy sense. But at least it admits as much in its self-justifications.
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This kind of interaction is valuable for lateral thinking & questioning your own assumptions rather than getting trustworthy answers
The "huh, why did it say that?" line of reasoning valuable in its own right
FWIW real 🔥 AI anthros: Nick Seaver, Kate Crawford, Genevieve Bell
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Thanks for the discovery -- after trying it for a bit, I'm convinced Riff has an incredible potential for explaining certain concepts and widespreading common and technical knowledge. Looking forward to seeing how it's going to evolve. Keep it up !
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