Coded Justice Quotes

“We have at hand a magnificent tool that can make us better than we are, but artificial intelligence is not yet free of the anchors that have long weighed down humanity. We are smarter than our tools, but not for always. We must do what we can while we can.”
― Stacey Abrams, Coded Justice

“but for computer scientists, we’re still looking for the spark that says it can create from nothing. Current AIs don’t actually understand what they are saying or doing. The one that fell in love simply mimicked what it thought the parameters required.”
― Stacey Abrams, Coded Justice

“Systems like that can make decisions, evaluate probabilities, and display critical-thinking skills…but they are still using machine learning. Remember when ChatGPT came out? It could write papers or answer complex questions, but push its program too far and the responses became nonsense. It was limited by its database.”
― Stacey Abrams, Coded Justice

“In Theory of Mind, a neural network can understand, anticipate, and predict likely emotional or cognitive responses for other intelligent systems, in ways that far outstrip our initial design parameters. Basically, your social-media algorithm reacts to your inputs and chooses what to share with you based on those limited inputs. DeepMind developed the system that beat two Chinese masters at Go, which is an example of the next level. It uses its retention of information to learn and adapt based on information we’ve fed it or that it gathered on its own.”
― Stacey Abrams, Coded Justice

“It’s the modern arms race of AI—the thinking, sentient tech. But what seem like sentient behaviors today are merely extraordinarily sophisticated large language models that combine reasoning capabilities with access to language processing, image recognition, and nuanced problem-solving.”
― Stacey Abrams, Coded Justice

“Given your meager acquaintance with the architecture of artificial intelligence, I am trying to meet you at the point of your capacity.” The dig”
― Stacey Abrams, Coded Justice

“Like he'd learned in boot camp, slow was smooth and smooth was fast.”
― Stacey Abrams, Coded Justice

“In the world of Susan Clymer, efficiency meant speed, and effectiveness meant attention to details. Time was a detail, and if you couldn't master it, you belonged elsewhere.”
― Stacey Abrams, Coded Justice