by #JoshDzieza in #NyMag #Intelligencer:

"AI learns by finding patterns in enormous quantities of data, but first that data has to be sorted and tagged by people, a vast workforce mostly hidden behind the machines. In Joe’s case, he was labeling footage for self-driving cars — identifying every vehicle, pedestrian, cyclist, anything a driver needs to be aware of — frame by frame and from every possible camera angle. It’s difficult and repetitive work. A several-second blip of footage took eight hours to annotate, for which Joe was paid about $10."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-humans-technology-business-factory.html

#AI #ScaleAI #SiliconValley #OpenAI #USMilitary #ChatGPT #MachineLearning

by #EricLevitz in #Intelligencer:

"It is now clear that Summers was wrong. His call for austerity was premised on the notion that only a sharp increase in unemployment could prevent a ruinous wage-price spiral. In reality, both wage and price growth have been slowing for months, even as unemployment has remained near historic lows. Summers’s failure to anticipate this outcome should lead us to reconsider just how prescient his analysis of the post-COVID economy ever was."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/06/larry-summers-was-wrong-about-inflation.html

#LarrySummers #inflation #unemployment #austerity #CPI

by #IrinCarmon in #Intelligencer:

"For decades, defending pregnant people who use drugs or disobey doctors was off-message for a movement that was focused on persuading Democratic politicians and Republican-appointed judges to keep abortion legal on paper. Paltrow’s argument, which has proved prescient since Roe v. Wade was overturned, is that these cases, however unfavorable the optics may be, were the first round of a fight for the fundamental control of people who could get pregnant."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/lynn-paltrow-pregnancy-justice-interview.html

#abortion #AbortionRights #ReproductiveRights #RoeVsWade #RoeVWade #LynnPaltrow #women #jail #pregnancy #miscarriage #stillbirth

by #JonathanChait in #Intelligencer:

"Previous presidents have managed to raise the debt ceiling either as a stand-alone bill or as part of a larger deal with benefits for both sides. Biden — along with Barack Obama in 2011, who regretted it — stands out for having had to give unrequited concessions to the opposing party to accomplish this historically routine task. You can talk yourself into believing he didn’t have a better choice. But if you think this represents some kind of thematic high point for the administration and a fulfillment of Biden’s grandest promises, your commitment to centrist ideology has grown so dogmatic that you have lost all touch with reality."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/06/debt-ceiling-deal-biden-mccarthy-bipartisanship-economy.html

#centrists #centrism #DebtCeiling #DebtLimit #bipartisanship #bipartisan #JoeBiden #Biden #KevinMcCarthy #McCarthy #USPol #USPolitics #politics

In ‘#Intelligencer’, Jeff #Wise reviews arguments by #legal thinkers reconsidering #freedom of #speech. The Question: ‘Do You Have a Right Not to Be #Lied To?’

I 'm looking up something else & came across this in the #Intelligencer, August 2021.

What the fuck is this sadistic psycho
#GOPshit about cutting off food to kids?!

#FreeLunch Doesn’t ‘Spoil’ Schoolchildren

A #Wisconsin school board’s decision to ditch free meals for schoolkids exemplifies the “mean” in means-testing.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/free-lunch-doesnt-spoil-schoolchildren.html