Gleick, James, "The Fate of Free Will" (review of Kevin J. Mitchell, Free Agents: How Evolution
Gave Us Free Will, Princeton University Press, 2023, 333 pp.), The New York Review of
Books, vol. LXXI, no. 1 (18 January 2024), pp. 27–28, 30. "Agency is what distinguishes us
from machines. For biological creatures, reason and purpose come from acting in the world
and experiencing the consequences. Artificial intelligences – disembodied, strangers to
blood, sweat, and tears – have no occasion for that." (p. 30.)
Halpern, Sue, "The Coming Tech Autocracy" (review of Verity Harding, AI Needs You: How We
Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own, Princeton University Press, 274 pp.; Gary
Marcus, Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us, MIT Press, 235
pp.; Daniela Rus and Gregory Mone, The Mind's Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI,
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Holt, 311 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXXI, no. 17 (7 November 2024), pp.
44–46. "'We can't realistically expect that those who hope to get rich from AI are going to
have the interests of the rest of us close at heart,' ... writes [Gary Marcus]. 'We can't count
on governments driven by campaign finance contributions [from tech companies] to push
back.'... Marcus details the demands that citizens should make of their governments and the
tech companies. They include transparency on how AI systems work; compensation for
individuals if their data [are] used to train LLMs (large language model)s and the right to
consent to this use; and the ability to hold tech companies liable for the harms they cause
by eliminating Section 230, imposing cash penalties, and passing stricter product liability
laws... Marcus also suggests... that a new, AI-specific federal agency, akin to the FDA, the
FCC, or the FTC, might provide the most robust oversight.... [T]he Fordham law professor
Chinmayi Sharma... suggests... establish[ing] a professional licensing regime for engineers
that would function in a similar way to medical licenses, malpractice suits, and the
Hippocratic oath in medicine. 'What if, like doctors,' she asks..., 'AI engineers also vowed to
do no harm?'" (p. 46.)
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Hughes-Castleberry, Kenna, "A Murder Mystery Puzzle: The literary puzzle Cain's Jawbone,
which has stumped humans for decades, reveals the limitations of natural-language-
processing algorithms", Scientific American, vol. 329, no. 4 (November 2023), pp. 81–82.
"This murder mystery competition has revealed that although NLP (natural-language
processing) models are capable of incredible feats, their abilities are very much limited by
the amount of context they receive. This [...] could cause [difficulties] for researchers who
hope to use them to do things such as analyze ancient languages. In some cases, there are
few historical records on long-gone civilizations to serve as training data for such a
purpose." (p. 82.)
Immerwahr, Daniel, "Your Lying Eyes: People now use A.I. to generate fake videos
indistinguishable from real ones. How much does it matter?", The New Yorker, 20
November 2023, pp. 54–59. "If by 'deepfakes' we mean realistic videos produced using
artificial intelligence that actually deceive people, then they barely exist. The fakes aren't
deep, and the deeps aren't fake. [...] A.I.-generated videos are not, in general, operating in
our media as counterfeited evidence. Their role better resembles that of cartoons, especially
smutty ones." (p. 59.)
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