Cory Doctorow

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525 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 31 Jul

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On the Media · F@#$ the AI Overlords · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

You call them cheap bullies tricks, right?

Yeah, look, it's the stop punching yourself trick, right?

Well, if you don't want to be spied on, why are you searching the internet?

If you don't want Mark Zuckerberg listening in, why do you have friends?

And this is just as true about AI, because look, AI, pretty cool.

Here's basically the AI story from a computer science perspective.

10 years ago, some researchers took existing machine learning techniques and tried a minor variation on them.

Normally, if you vary a technique by a little, you get a small change in the output.

Actually, they got a big change.

It got much better.

This was a piece of low-hanging fruit and it turned out it was in a low-hanging fruit orchard.

They could do the same thing over and over again and the output got better and better.

Now, eventually, it tapered off.

We're now in an era of diminishing returns.

But this is, like, it's very exciting to see machine learning improving.

And, you know, machine learning, we can talk about whether that's a good term or a bad term.

But, you know, making statistical inferences is useful.

Knowing about what happened and trying to guess from knowing what happened what's going to happen next lets us have weather predictions and cancer research and the—

International Panel on Climate Change.

Statistical prediction is good, and we're getting better at it.

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