‘Large A.I. Models Are Cultural and Social Technologies’ – Pixel Envy

‘Large A.I. Models Are Cultural and Social Technologies’ – Pixel Envy

Henry Farrell, Alison Gopnik, Cosma Shalizi, and James Evans, in an article for Science, as published on Farrell’s website because good academics are aware of how restrictive a paywalled journal can be: Our central point here is not just that these technological innovations, like all other innovations, will have cultural and social consequences. Rather we argue that Large Models are themselves best understood as a particular type of cultural an…