ABrockwell @aebrockwell@social.cleverlibre.org

Just leaving this out here for any technology writers that need a reminder

#ChatGPT #OpenAI #BingAI

https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-intelligent-sentient-mirror-test

Being trans doesn't make me depressed. Being dehumanized, degraded, and debated does. I'm on the edge and I just wish that the world cared enough to stop torturing us with this.

Just realized it's now been two months since I was locked out of Twitter for factual reporting. I could delete the (non-rule-breaking) tweet and go back but, to be honest, I just don't feel any real desire to. It's a social network built for one, and not a place where you can trust that real reporting won't be punished on a whim. Every tweet supports a place that's hostile to what we do. Why enable that?

Super frustrated with all the cheerleading over chatbots for search, so here's a thread of presentations of my work with Chirag Shah on why this is a bad idea. Follow threaded replies for:

op-ed
media coverage
original paper
conference presentation

Please boost whichever (if any) speak to you.

“Anthropomorphizing automated technologies reveals our fascination with them, but it gets in the way of a meaningful understanding of how they work, and how they impact us.” #ChatGPT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #technology

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2023/opinion-chatgpt-will-not-replace-humans/

Ahhh… wonderful!!! Scary, funny, and disturbing… 👍

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/

Best to be read in a calm end-of-the-wold mood! #brilliant #AI #ChatGPT

t seems like the bigger story here is that you can poll 2600 cryptobros and even then nearly 1 in 5 will go "oh, you like crypto...? yikes"

@academicchatter @academicworld @academicalnerd @academicsunite @academia_carnet

The death of shame - Robert Reich https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-death-of-shame?publication_id=365422&utm_medium=email&action=share&isFreemail=true#details

I saw this on Reddit and thought there's no way it's real, but after testing for myself I've confirmed it is. Bing AI will give you incorrect information then fully gaslight you if you question it.

Goodnight Resisters

Good morning to Iranians seeking freedom and Ukrainians fighting to keep their freedom.

@moultano Humans have an underlying knowledge model. They have beliefs about the world, and choose whether to represent those beliefs accurately or inaccurately using language.

LLMs do not have an underlying knowledge model, they don't have a concept of what is true or false in the world. They just string together words they don't "understand" in ways that are likely to seem credible.

It's not a matter of making better LLMs; it'll take a fundamentally different type of model.

Hunter Biden deserves grace. Jared Kushner deserves investigation.

Get more of my thoughts on the stark differences between the two: https://bit.ly/3Ypn512

Imagine looking at the state of healthcare and the poverty rate among the elderly in this country and thinking to yourself:

"Let's gut Medicare and slash Social Security. Oh, and for good measure, give tax cuts to the already wealthy!"

It's just cruel.

Whenever I read a post about LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT) that claims the system "understands language," I stop reading. The author clearly doesn't get it.

These systems don’t "understand" anything in the human sense. To claim they do so is to anthropomorphize them in a profoundly unhelpful way.

#AI #ChatGPT #LLM

Prediction: "Certified #AI-free" is going to be the new "Organic" label of the 2020s. #chatgpt

Meet the #rainboweucalyptus.

These #gums are unbeliebable.

When a rainbow eucalyptus sheds its bark it reveals a neon green inner layer. Over time, as this layer is exposed to air, it ages into different colors. They display bright reds, oranges, blues, pinks and purples.

The different colours appear as different layers fall off, while other exposed areas begin aging.

Rainbow eucalyptus is the only eucalyptus tree native to the #northernhemisphere.

It’s found mainly in the Philippines, New Guinea, and Indonesia.

And funny enough, it is not native to #Australia!

📷 sources;
thespruce.com
oneearth.com

#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #aesthetichedonist #januaryjoy #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #godmustbeabotanist #makesmehappy

I’ve been a teacher in elementary school and an adjunct professor of education for the past 30 years. What DeSantis is doing with education is fascism pure and simple. And the College Board going along with the whitewashing of the AA AP courses is not only shameful and a threat to our country and to democracy! I’ve lost my faith in the College Board and any of us who are in this field need to make our voices heard!!

Physicist John Tyndall is often credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3 years earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its #climate.

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer #history #science #ClimateChange