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🗞️ GPT-4 failed the Turing Test; Algorithmic reparations; and the 'Church of Artificial Intelligence'

🗞️ GPT-4 failed the Turing Test; Algorithmic reparations; and the 'Church of Artificial Intelligence'

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Hi, it’s Charley, and this is Untangled, a weekly-ish newsletter on technology, people, and power. A few things before getting into it:

  • 🧠 Last week,  I published the essay, “AI alignment isn’t a problem — it’s a myth” and offered a tour of unordered and ordered systems.

  • 😊 Caitlin Dewey, who writes the great newsletter, Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends, recently recommended Untangled to her readers, describing it this way: “Always-edifying tech analysis…that doesn't just *tell* you what to think about AI … but teaches you how to think about it.” Please help me thank Caitlin (and do yourself a favor!) by signing up for her newsletter

  • 👋 A warm welcome to new Untangled subscribers from The TechEquity Collaborative, New America, The University of California San Diego, and FutureScot.

In today’s issue, I’m contextualizing the best stuff I read all week, including papers and articles about:

  • 💸 Algorithmic systems & reparations;

  • 💭 AI systems & abstract reasoning;

  • 🤯 The word of the year — hallucinate! — and why it bums me out.

  • 🤖 How ChatGPT failed the Turing Test;

  • 🙋‍♀️ AI, public input, and democratizing governance;

  • ⛪ The rebooted ‘Church of Artificial Intelligence.’ Yep, really.

Let’s make Untangling the News a community effort — got an article or paper you think others might enjoy? Send it my way, and I might just include it in the next edition.

Okay, on to the show!


💸 Can algorithmic methods support reparations? According to a recent paper by Wonyoung So and Catherine D’Ignazio, the answer is ‘yes’ but it depends on a societal innovation, not an algorithmic one.

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