It’s possible, but I just want the man to finish Westworld 😭
you’re totally fine! you’re right also and it’s a fun meditation to play with
I focus on Swisher (and her cohort of access journalists) as a chance to talk about how the most celebrated type of reporting advanced a certain way of thinking about tech that has made us all worse off. It has fundamentally narrowed the questions people think to ask about technology.
Swisher is emblematic of non-labor journalism and most business journalism. As we point out, the notable examples were FT Alphaville, but also Gizmodo, WIRED, and other digital blogs/platforms. Labor journalists or reporters who bothered talking to the drivers had a deeper understanding of the tech
The work of Xiaochang Li, the brilliant historian of computing, tells us we had already became data-centric – struggling with and hungry for the acquisition of data – by the 1970s. "There’s No Data Like More Data” @xiaochang.bsky.socialwww.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
!["There’s No Data Like More Data”: Automatic Speech Recognition and the Making of Algorithmic Culture
by Xiaochang Li
This article examines the role of automatic speech recognition research in the rise of data-driven machine learning as a privileged and pervasive form of computational knowledge. It focuses on IBM’s Continuous Speech Recognition group between 1972 and 1993 as they fueled speech recognition’s “statistical turn,” uprooting the field from the simulation of human reason and language understanding and redirect- ing it toward the acquisition of data for large-scale pattern recognition. This shift, I argue, was instrumental in the remaking of artificial intelligence and computational modeling into radically data-centric pursuits that underpin algorithmic culture today. In doing so, this history offers a critical piece in the story of how we became data- driven, highlighting how efforts to turn language into data consequently turned data into an imperative [truncated]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:2wyqv44lm72vasmddeqjgy72/bafkreif4sue3mhpfrg5apqykobx5f7krkvo66twdllnhhoezlck5fuwom4@jpeg)
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