Cerstin Mahlow @CerstinMahlow@qoto.org

Das Bayerische Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht (BayLDA) hat ein Prüfverfahren gegen die "Letzte Generation" eingeleitet. Es reagiert damit auf Berichte über ein massives Datenleck bei der Klimaschutzbewegung.
https://www.heise.de/news/Super-GAU-Letzte-Generation-nach-Leck-im-Visier-von-Datenschuetzern-7491287.html
#Datenschutz #DSGVO

Me: OK, does anyone have any questions?

Students:

Me: Seriously, is any of this at all confusing or unclear?

Students:

Me: So everyone is confident they understand what we just covered?

Students:

Me: OK, well, if you realize you don't think you get it later, email me or or talk to me before or after class and we'll chat.

End of semester student evaluations: "I didn't understand anything." "I was confused the whole time." "He was super confusing!"

#Academia #ProfessorLife

"I Say a Little prayer", "Walk on By" oder "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head": Burt Bacharach hatte ein Talent für eingängige Songs. Der Komponist, mit dessen Hits Stars wie Aretha Franklin oder Frank Sinatra Erfolge feierten, ist nun im Alter von 94 Jahren gestorben.
Oscar-Gewinner: US-Komponist Burt Bacharach gestorben

I have a sinking feeling that the next 20 years are going to be like living in a freshman dorm where new students enter every week, discover Searle's Chinese Room for the first time, and tell you confidently what they believe it proves about AI.

Absolutely the best Acknowledgments section of a paper I’ve read. From https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03988 / h/t @playingwithdust

I jotted this down in 1998, but it's still useful. A guide for people who want to cultivate, nourish, garden good conversations in #OnlineCommunities .

https://www.rheingold.com/texts/artonlinehost.html

Gotta be honest, the number of you who are ascribing some sort of agency to these language models is pretty depressing, it's like breaking up a fight between a person and and the chair they stuck stuck googly-eyes on because the chair is winning.

DUKE: (to himself) I know it's a big risk wearing the gold-trimmed tux, but I'm doing it. Finally, the world will notice me! I'm going to stand out! Everyone will know the name-
ALDIN: BUZZ IS HERE, BITCHES! LET'S LIGHT THIS CANDLE! WOOOOO!
DUKE: (grumbles) Aldrin ...

.. I get to wear WHAT I want, WHERE I want, WHEN I want for the rest of my natural God-given life. Do you understand me, son?
PG: Yes sir. Right this way Mr. Aldrin.

It also makes me feel sorry for Charlie Duke. He's the one on the left in the gold-trimmed tux. I bet he thought he was going to stand out. (end)

This is a formal portrait of the surviving Apollo astronauts. That's Buzz Aldrin in the silver tux. I have to imagine the conversation went like this:

ALDRIN: Ok, let's get started
PHOTOGRAPH: Mr. Aldrin, you are aware that this is a formal portrait?
BA: I'm not an idiot son.
PG: Well your suit-
BA: Son, have you been to the moon?
PG: No sir.
BA: Well I have. The moon. The motherlovin' moon. In a tin can run by a calculator and powered by a can of sterno. (1/)

M: that’s
O: not
R: how
O: acronyms
N: work

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/chatgpt-is-a-data-privacy-nightmare-and-you-ought-to-be-concerned/

oh we're surprised. #ChatGPT seems to be a #privacy nightmare...

Asks.

#Comics #WebComics

My most recent release, MD Polychrome is a #typeface designed to reference the MICR-style ‘retro high-tech’ typefaces of the late ’60s and early ’70s.

Unlike those designs, however, it’s been carefully drawn in a natively digital format, and supports 400+ (Latin-based) languages — so it’s actually ready for contemporary uses, too.

Specimen site: https://polychrome.mass-driver.com
Licensing/trials: https://mass-driver.com/typefaces/md-polychrome

This is how much the tectonic plates shifted during the Turkey earthquake, the entire road moved. This photo was taken by Prof. Hasan Sozbilir leader of the ATAG research group currently mapping the surface ruptures. #TurkeySyriaEarthquake #TectonicPlates

One argument here is that people will blindly trust any chatbot that supports their previous biases

Is that cynicism justified?

What happens when the chatbot speaks against their biases? In particular, what if it both counters their biases AND does so in a way that is demonstrably factually incorrect?

We are already seeing furious complaints from some corners that ChatGPT has a liberal bias - how does that affect how those complainants trust and use these tools?

The biggest question for me about large language model interfaces - ChatGPT, the new Bing, Google's Bard - is this:

How long does it take for regular users (as opposed to experts, or people who just try them once or twice) to convince themselves that these tools frequently makes things up that aren't accurate?

And assuming they figure this out, how does knowing it affect the way they use these tools?

Some serious research in ChatGPT capacities and limitations https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04023?fbclid=IwAR1Q3v7jty7nlejw1d4KEW4A4vxyPNKyZ3OhkUnTzM04vFOZ1fxAo8B6FcA

Just published "Computer-assisted simultaneous interpreting: A cognitive-experimental study on terminology by Bianca Prandi #openaccess #tmnlp https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/348