10/23/2022 0 Comments Blinkk jeremy weinstein![]() ![]() Search in scenes may be best explained by a two-pathway model: Object recognition is performed via a selective pathway in which candidate targets must be individually selected for recognition. It is probable that both hardwired guidance by basic features and learned guidance by scene structure become part of radiologists’ expertise. Guidance by basic features (such as color) requires no learning, whereas guidance by complex scene properties is learned. Several high-speed mechanisms guide our search of complex images. How do radiologists glean information from a first glance at an image? It is thought that this expert impression of the gestalt of an image is related to the everyday, immediate visual understanding of the gist of a scene. ![]() Regulation good, self-regulation bad, end of story.Diagnostic accuracy for radiologists is above that expected by chance when they are exposed to a chest radiograph for only one-fifth of a second, a period too brief for more than a single voluntary eye movement. Regulation can be good or bad, and the fact that the authors supported bad legislation like AB 5, without even apparently bothering to check the arguments against it (they stated they didn't know why people opposed it), tells you everything you need to know about the bias in this book. ![]() That's really my main issue with this book - it champions increased government regulation as if that was a magic cure for the techno-libertarian self-regulation of big tech that we have right now. For example, when it comes to AB 5, a state law here in California that gutted entire industries such as freelance journalism, the authors can't seem to find any reason why people would object to it (saying essentially that in the book), and blame the passage of Prop 22 entirely on its funding by Uber and Lyft, as if voters in the dark blue state of California would just vote for anything that large corporations would put in front of them, and not on the fact that voters could see the destructive impact of the very sorts of regulations that the authors of this book are pushing for. Or on the "growth mindset" of big tech which prioritizes explosive growth over everything else.īut the authors don't do really any legwork at all on understanding people with a different viewpoint than their own. The authors of the book make a number of good points about the "optimization mindset" of big tech, which focuses on technical, engineering solutions to various problems in society without thinking about what effects their solutions will have on society. System Error exposes the root of our current predicament: how big tech's relentless focus on optimisation is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers and pollutes the information we get.Īrmed with an understanding of how technologists think and exercise their power, three Stanford professors - a philosopher working at the intersection of tech and ethics, a political scientist who served under Obama and the director of the undergraduate computer science program at Stanford (also an early Google engineer) - reveal how we can hold that power to account.Īs the dominance of big tech becomes an explosive societal conundrum, they share their provocative insights and concrete solutions to help everyone understand what is happening, what is at stake and what we can do to control technology instead of letting it control us. #BLINKK JEREMY WEINSTEIN FREE#We have simply accepted a technological future designed for us by technologists, the venture capitalists who fund them and the politicians who give them free reign. ![]() Yet too few of us see any alternative to accepting the onward march of technology. In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technology's liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism and job-displacing robots. A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors, which reveals how big tech's obsession with optimisation and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy and save ourselves. ![]()
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