For Good Friday, I wrote a piece on the history of The Troubles in Northern Ireland for Teen Vogue. As always, grateful to my editor there and the willingness of Teen Vogue to publish pieces like this.
Part of what motivated me was a real concern about what civil conflict looks. It feels close at hand in this country, and I worry that people won’t appreciate it until it’s too late. #histodons #goodfriday @histodons
Whenever someone talks to you about AI being able to reason, consider showing them this thread. It's arguments will remain valid at least until GPT-7 is out, and more probably until we remind ourselves that statistics are descriptive and totally ignore intent
RT @rao2z@twitter.com
Afraid of #GPT4 going rogue and killing y'all? Worry not. Planning has got your back. You can ask it to solve any simple few step classical planning problem and snuff that "AGI spark" well and good.
Let me explain.. 🧵 1/
RT @Mylovanov@twitter.com
I asked people why they think Russians did it. “To use us as a protection against the Ukrainian army” is the only answer I heard. Russians paraded kids in front of the building when Ukrainian drones were nearby. 9/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Mylovanov/status/1643614587353280514
RT @babiejenks@twitter.com
Photos of Britney Spears on magazine covers are literally how I realized Americans couldn't tell the difference between a rictus and a smile.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/babiejenks/status/1442996955257479168
RT @WillOremus@twitter.com
Asked for examples of sexual harassment at law schools, ChatGPT named a GW prof accused of touching a student on a class trip to Alaska, citing a WashPost story.
The prof is real. The rest was made up.
We wrote about what happens when AIs lie about you: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/05/chatgpt-lies/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/WillOremus/status/1643687459627180057
RT @PeritiFrancesco@twitter.com
I'm happy to announce that our Survey paper on Contextualised Semantic Shift Detection has just been published on arXiv!
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01666
Currently under review, stay tuned for updates on our paper's progress. #LSC #SSD #BERT #Transformer
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PeritiFrancesco/status/1643495233903009798
RT @SolNataMD@twitter.com
"What we have seen is the widespread propagation of misinformation and disinformation. And the reason it has taken root is because there was an information vacuum"(c)
OMG! I have so many things I would love to say. But I'll limit myself with tweets below
https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/02/jha-covid-misinformation/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SolNataMD/status/1642736628350238721
RT @ICFJ@twitter.com
Journalist @nameesarnous@twitter.com founded a magazine about, for, & from women in the Arab world. But her outlet was struggling financially. So she joined Elevate, ICFJ’s news business hub. Through her mentorship, she decided to develop 2 new revenue streams: https://buff.ly/3neLpVG
Thank you for not commenting on my fraught relationship with my dad, Bing. Other than that, interesting that GPT-4 can compare numbers of individuals with numbers of events just like that. I think this is not a reading most humans would get for the comparative illusion. @linguistics @psycholinguistics
New great piece from Melissa Heikkelä where she explains 3 serious security issues with modern chatbots -- and there aren't working solutions for them yet. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/03/1070893/three-ways-ai-chatbots-are-a-security-disaster/
The full text has been just made available by CEUR-WS https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3365/paper6.pdf
RT @PopovaProf@twitter.com
Stumbled upon this 2003 quote from Ukr president Kuchma. Ru had just tried to take over the Ukr island of Tuzla in the Kerch Straight and build a dam to connect it to Ru mainland. Perhaps Pu was already planning his Kerch Bridge, which indeed passes over and is anchored in Tuzla.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PopovaProf/status/1642737144866172928
Audio/video corpora as #openresearchdata in #linguistics, #EMCA and neighbouring fields present challenges: ethical concerns, structural and technical complexity, variety and how to deal with it in various usage scenarios, a written bias of existing tools, etc. How should we share our data? What skills researchers need to develop to engage in meaningful practices of data-sharing and which epistemological implications do these practices have in the mentioned fields?
The team of CHORD-Talk-in-interaction intends to explore these topics and promote the debate about them in the scientific community.
🔜 A first occasion for discussion is a workshop about the KIParla corpus of spoken Italian that we organize at USI Università della Svizzera italiana on April 28, 4:00-6:30 pm. You're welcome to join, on site or online.
🔎 To learn more and register for participation:
bit.ly/CHORDTalk-WS1
RT @emilymbender@twitter.com
Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the “AI pause” letter
https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023
"Regulatory efforts should focus on transparency, accountability and preventing exploitative labor practices."
w/@timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai@twitter.com and @mcmillan_majora@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1641891929788149760
RT @timnitGebru@twitter.com
Not only should it always be clear when we are encountering synthetic media, but organizations building these systems should also be required to document and disclose the training data and model architectures.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1641894105084203008
RT @timnitGebru@twitter.com
The onus of creating tools that are safe to use should be on the companies that build and deploy generative systems, which means that builders of these systems should be made accountable for the outputs produced by their products.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1641894106006962176
RT @timnitGebru@twitter.com
Since we've been looking for more things to do, @emilymbender@twitter.com @mmitchell_ai@twitter.com @mcmillan_majora@twitter.com and I wrote a statement about the horrible "letter" on the AI apocalypse, the very first citation of which, was our #StochasticParrots paper.
https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1641893027492020224
I tried using #Midjourney to illustrate fairy tales. My intention was to design a process applicable across models and for wider #narratives. I succeeded with the task. It remains to be seen if the process lives up to the expectations https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08961 @projectVAST@twitter.com
Studying how people interact, in the past (#CulturalAnalytics) and today (#EdTech #Crowdsourcing). Researcher at @IslabUnimi, University of Milan. Bulgarian activist for legal reform with @pravosadiezv. I use dedicated accounts for different languages.
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