used to think that ML people didn't know enough math, that this was what was limiting the field. Now I think the field needs more humanities
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But being better at building solutions is less valuable if you don't pick the right problems to solve and don't apply your solutions wisely
I find the field as it is now ill-equipped to deal with increasingly cult-like influences, & to take on significant social responsibilities
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How to inject that? More ML reseachers with humanities backgrounds? 'interdisciplinary' projects? More ML as method in humanities research?
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contemplating academia w/ interest in ML/DL/AI&the humanities, and whether to pursue from the humanities, CS, or math
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Anthropologists understand group behaviors and some, like me, look at this in the context of technological and social systems.
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Can you elaborate on what you mean by cult-like influences?
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Thinking specifically of Singularitarianism & the "Rationalism" crowd. Surprisingly large influence on the community, sometimes sets agenda
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Not just ML, any tech field needs more of the humanities. The essence of the humanities is what truly defines what an "education" is.
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An engineering degree is not an edu, it is training. Add to the lack of education good money, and you get a strange kind of individualism.
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This is the key point I think. Whenever we talk about intelligence, morality is very important, and the sense of doing it to benefit others.
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I believe the only fix is to make deep learning accessible to normal people doing normal jobs. Few saying "democratize AI" actually do this
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(You are an exception, thank heavens!)
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