Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@social.cleverlibre.org

Talk about wildly anti-patterned. Trying to change a password on an Office365 account. If you paste into the password box, you get a message along the lines of "password cannot contain username". I promise the random string I was pasting contained *no similarity* to the user name. They made me actually type it. Twice. So it's shorter and simpler because who has the time?

Digital History and Theory
An Open Conversation on the Futures of Digital Scholarship
March 3-4, 2023 - online and in person
For more information, visit the event website: https://historyandtheory.org/digitalht2023

no less than eight (8!) #philosophy lectureships at #Utrecht University: http://edu.nl/8xfhx Please apply if you are interested, or share with suitable candidates. Deadline for applications: 26 February 2023.
#jobs #academia #ethics #politicalphilosophy

Mickey Petersen, he of the book Mastering Emacs, has just released the first post-prototype version of his tree-sitter-based structural editing package for Emacs.

This is huge people!

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/combobulate-structured-movement-editing-treesitter

Careful, mentioning the wisdom of our ancestors can get you defenestrated.

Fantastic project by @mfenner ! Check it out:

An Archive for Scholarly blogs

DOIs for scholarly blog posts!

https://upstream.force11.org/rogue-scholar/

#openscience

Professur "open rank" für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit https://www.infoclio.ch/de/professur-open-rank-fu%CC%88r-geschichte-der-fru%CC%88hen-neuzeit?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #infocliojob

#whataweekhuh

So OpenAI just released a detector of AI-generated text, I assume because of concerns in education / homework.

https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/

Maybe this is good?

No, it's very bad.

They claim 26% true positives, 9% false positives. Assume 10% of submitted homework is chatgpt generated, you get the classic counterintuitive outcome of poor predictive power: if a homework is flagged, there's a 3:1 chance it's *human* generated.

This is going to cause a lot of harm. It should be immediately recalled.

DIZH-Brückenprofessur für Digital Cultures and Arts https://www.infoclio.ch/de/dizh-br%C3%BCckenprofessur-f%C3%BCr-digital-cultures-and-arts?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #infocliojob

All right, folks, here are some great links about #ChatGPT (espeically for educators)

tl;dr: Don't panic

* Sarah Elaine Eaton's talk "Academic Integrity and Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Plagiarism and Academic Writing" is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QNNPVSC24w

* Nature has a word for publishers: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00191-1

* The ultimate link list to English language sources (and soon French): https://pupp.uqo.ca/en/artificial-intelligence-and-plagiarism/

#AcademicIntegrity #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

OpenAI released a tool which purports to detect AI-generated text. At the highest end of detection, it labels text "possibly" or "likely" AI-generated. 21% of human-written text falls under "possibly" and 9% of "likely" does. That's 3 in 10 students being defamed and/or harmed.

Just like other providers of academic surveillance software, OpenAI states that their detector "should not be used as a primary decision-making tool".

It will be, though. And harm will follow.

https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/

Important @garymarcus on the "uncanny cognitive valley" in which seemingly good enough AI leads to neglect and inattention https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-cnet-fake-news-fiasco-autopilot

For the morning crew, we posted @eastgate’s talk last night, a history of Early #ToolsForThought

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smTUHRDYm5E

"As generative media gets better, we have this notion that at any point, you're gonna be able to turn on the future equivalent of Netflix and watch a show perpetually, nonstop as much as you want."

#AI #entertainment #media
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/23/01/31/206257/nothing-forever-is-an-endless-seinfeld-episode-generated-by-ai?utm_source=feedly1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

It has become increasingly clear to me that the wide availability of AI-based text generation tools coupled with the "publish-or-perish" incentive of the current scientific publishing system is a dangerous mix, which puts academia on a straight path to becoming a cargo cult. So I wrote an essay about it. Below is a short summary: 1/

https://lookalikes.substack.com/p/publish-or-perish-and-chatgpt-a-dangerous

#scicomm #academia #llm #chatgpt #publishing #science #research #writing

NLProc Mastodon verse: to all CL/NLP people out there, out of curiosity, ---given you {are working
|do research|are educated} in Computational Linguists or Natural Language Processing: do you have a preference?

New preprint:
Explainable prediction of catalysing enzymes from reactions using multilayer perceptrons

- Explain reaction classification using DRFP, DeepSHAP
- Viz with SmilesDrawer
- Predict enzyme catalysts for any reaction

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.28.526009v1

#Bioinformatics
#Chemistry
#MachineLearning
#Science