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Eileen Clancy
@clancyny.bsky.social
Studying and researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Many careered, video archivist. Earnest poster. Enthusiastic and clumsy. Insufficiently reverent. Degree: Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian.
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Gift: Giant Tech Platforms Want All The Data and They're Breaking All The Rules To Get it. [my headline] 5 of the NYT most seasoned tech reporters tell us what's going on. Gift link!

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.

OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems...

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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]
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Eileen Clancy
@clancyny.bsky.social
Studying and researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Many careered, video archivist. Earnest poster. Enthusiastic and clumsy. Insufficiently reverent. Degree: Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian.
4.8k followers2.2k following18.4k posts
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