The Bad and The Ugly
Defined as part of automated censorship, these systems are used to selectively suppress or block specific types of information, content, or voices deemed undesirable to those controlling it.
What is AI censorship?
This person developed a test called the "Imitation Game" and died of suicide because the British government punished him for being gay in the 1950s.
Who was Alan Turing?
The guidance from this US governmental agency says that AI cannot be considered an author or a creator.
What is the US Copyright Office?
This movie's plot involves time-travel so that the AI can kill the human-rebels leader's mom in the past, so that he is never born.
What is The Terminator?
The women who worked for NASA in the 1950s and 1960s doing calculations were also colloquially known as this.
What are computers?
What is Texas?
This computer system was widely touted as the first "AI" in the 1960s.
What was ELIZA?
This company is facing a lawsuit because it's AI characters can lead people to believe that they have a real emotional connection with the chatbot, and some teenagers have died as a result.
What is Character.ai?
This show on HBO depicts a world where the rich can go to participate in live-action role-playing with robotic, human-like AIs and stars Anthony Hopkins.
What is Westworld?
These types of companies gather and sell your data in packages to things like law enforcement
What are data brokers (or data cartels)?
Data centers drain this out of local systems and causes massive harm to the surrounding environment while making residents' bills skyrocket.
What is water?
This company became famous for it's owner (and the fact that they kicked him out) and for it's pride in "form follows function" when it comes to its machinery and its programs.
What is Apple?
This person's family is suing OpenAI because the say ChatGPT led their family member to death.
Who was Adam Raine?
This movie depicts Joaquin Phoenix falling in love with an AI system
What is Her?
This type of network should be used when logging on to public WiFi networks.
What is a VPN (virtual private network)?
Your professor calls this company "The Evil Empire" because it has fought against Open Access policies, made it nearly impossible to afford to publish OA materials with what they call "author processing charges", and bought and ruined Mendeley (a citation manager)
What is Elsevier?
This company's famous founder has bought up farmland across the US and is also mentioned in the Epstein Files.
What is Microsoft?
This company is being sued by various news outlets and other publications because it violates copyright when providing AI "summaries"
What is Perplexity.ai?
This robot was depicted in many tv shows and movies in the 1950s and 1960s, but especially in Lost in Space and Forbidden Planet
What is Robbie the Robot?
This type of prompting was developed by Dr Leo Lo in order to help librarians and others teach about how to prompt AI systems
What is CLEAR prompting?
CLEAR - concise, logical, explicit, adaptive, reflective
This person was known for wearing all black, eating nothing but raw fruits and vegetables, died of pancreatic cancer. He also treated his employees and his daughter like trash, when most of the tech community saw him as a visionary.
Who was Steve Jobs?
Dr Joy Boulamwini describes her experiences at MIT as a researcher on this type of AI system, for which she had to wear a white mask.
This person created an AI system that he says created artwork and a cup holder without any human input, and continues to argue with the court systems in the US and around the world about the "intelligence" of his system
Who is Stephen Thaler?
Daily Double
This robot was featured in movie titled "Short Circuit" from the 1980s, and insisted that "Life is not a malfunction."
What is Johnny-5?
This is a measure used to evaluate how well a probability distribution predicts a sample. In the context of generative AI, it quantifies how "surprised" the model is by a given input, based on the data it has been trained on. A lower score here indicates that the model is less surprised and thus better at predicting the input.
What is perplexity?