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The further back we go the more dangerous is to extrapolate "context" from texts. Nowadays there are so many people from all walks of life posting online their
by Almondsetat 3y ago
The further back we go the more dangerous is to extrapolate "context" from texts.
Nowadays there are so many people from all walks of life posting online their opinions and their lives that it's reasonable to assume that an AI trained in the contents of the web will approximate the zeitgeist and the current "vibes".
The same absolutely cannot be said going further back, when books were only written and published by a small circle of elites.
This prototype seems to me conceptually flawed from the very start
- vasco 3y agoIt's still cool to know what the zeitgeist was for this group of people. There's still quite a few people without access to the internet (more than 2B out of 8B). And later you can make the same argument about the internet having way more representation from rich people than poor, based on who hosts / publishes versus who only reads. So even today we have the same problem.