Educating the Atomic Human


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Epilogue

book: The Atomic Human
twitter: @lawrennd
The Atomic Human pages atomic human, the 13 , baby shoes 368, Blake, William Newton 121–123, Blake, William Newton 121–123, 258, 260, 283, 284, 301, 306, MONIAC 232-233, 266, 343, human-analogue machine (HAMs) 343-347, 359-359, 365-368, Human evolution rates 98-99, Psychological representation of Ecologies 323-327.
Sunday Times article “Our lives may be enhanced by AI, but Big Tech just sees dollar signs”
Times article “Don’t expect AI to just fix everything, professor warns”
blog posts:

Dan Andrews image of our reflective obsession with AI

Two Types of Stochastic Parrots

Art is Human

Dan Andrews image from Chapter 3

the launch of Facebook’s AI lab

Who is Stepping Up?

Bender, E.M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., Shmitchell, S., 2021. On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big?, in: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT ’21. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 610–623. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922

Scally, A., 2016. Mutation rates and the evolution of germline structure. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0137