1. 'The Cloud Under the Sea,' Josh Dzieza

'Dzieza does a fantastic job showing how indispensable [these engineers] are—yet you probably didn’t even know they existed.'

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I've long been fascinated by the simultaneously massive (world-spanning!) and precarious (tiny cables 5 miles under the ocean!) materiality underlying the Internet's infrastructure. This is a super interesting article by Josh Dzieza on the workers that repair undersea cables!

I highly recommend reading this beautiful piece of long-form journalism by Josh Dzieza of The Verge that profiles the Ocean Link, a submarine cable repair vessel.
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“The reason websites continue to load, bank transfers go through, and civilization persists is because of the thousand or so people living aboard 20-some ships stationed around the world, who race to fix each cable as soon as it breaks” theverge.com/c/24070570/int…

'The reason websites continue to load, bank transfers go through, and civilization persists is because of the thousand or so people living aboard 20-some ships stationed around the world, who race to fix each cable as soon as it breaks.' Josh Dzieza The Verge theverge.com/c/24070570/int…

I've been wanting to do this story for years and am thrilled it's finally out: inside the surprisingly small, highly specialized industry that repairs the internet cables on the bottom of the ocean theverge.com/c/24070570/int…

A delight to speak with Josh Dzieza and to be a part of this piece on how historians are working with AI. Also features Cindy Ermus and Katie McDonough and their awesome work!

Don't miss our Best of 2023 issue of the newsletter, with fantastic stories by Jennifer Senior, Stephen Rodrick, Tim Alberta, Willa Paskin, Skip Hollandsworth, Josh Dzieza, Emily Nussbaum, Drew Harwell & many more! mailchi.mp/sundaylongread…

In meiner Übersetzung für Redaktion Merkur: Josh Dzieza schreibt über die menschliche Mühe, die hinter der Entwicklung von KI steckt. Anders als oft angenommen wird diese Arbeit nie ein Ende finden. merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/ki-ist…

We're used to thinking of artificial intelligence as knowledge generated by machines. The Verge’s Josh Dzieza pulls back the curtain on the vast network of human labor that powers AI.
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Read this excellent and important story by Sarah A. Topol about America’s empire in the Pacific

A little late to the party but this article is a must-read. Key to understanding what's going on and what's going wrong with 'AI' is keeping the people in the frame.

Pulling back the curtain on AI means confronting the tedious manual labor required to keep it running. Josh Dzieza reports on the humans doing that (often baffling) labor, and what their experiences can tell us about how AI might actually change work. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

AI is turtles all the way down but it’s humans

Incredibly important story on the enormous human labor behind AI. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

The labor of millions of invisible workers is absolutely necessary to make AI systems work. AI is human from top to bottom - theverge.com/features/23764…

Want to know how RLHF actually works?

Read Josh's accounting of going undercover to write the darkly funny limericks about a goldfish powering ChatGPT.

How many humans does it take to make AI seem human? There are countless people around the world telling an algorithm what reality looks like.

Josh Dzieza reports for our new cover story, in collaboration with The Verge: trib.al/l3V5f3u

'ChatGPT seems so human because it was trained by an AI that was mimicking humans who were rating an AI that was mimicking humans who were pretending to be a better version of an AI that was trained on human writing.' Josh Dzieza The Verge theverge.com/features/23764…