ABrockwell @aebrockwell@qoto.org

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
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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

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

A Categorical Archive of ChatGPT Failures #chatgpt https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03494.pdf

Hahahaha!

Just a reminder, being a horrible person shoukdnt be tolerated simply because they claim their religion says so.... **YOU** choose one of any number of interpritations of your religion that caused you to be a horrible person. Thats not your religions fault, thats just you finding an excuse to be a shit human. No one needs to tolerate you being a shit human just because your a religious shit human.

That is all...

All of these hot takes about how Mastodon is too hard to use for mass adoption are missing the point entirely. We are not some tech startup trying to "disrupt" the social media ecosystem. We don't have VCs breathing down our necks pushing for continuous growth at all costs. We're just regular people out here building communities.

If people don't like Mastodon and decide to go back to Twitter, that's fine. They are not commodities to be exploited. If people like Mastodon and decide to stay, that's great! They are going to be more invested in the community because they are actually deriving real value from it.

If there's one thing the global capitalist system cannot fathom is that value can exist that is not fungible with monetary value. There are plenty of ways to create value for people that do not involve buying and selling. In fact the whole notion that value = monetary value is a relatively recent innovation in human history.

I'm not saying that capitalism doesn't have its benefits, but our minds have become so warped by its zero-sum game vision of the world that it's easy to believe that generating profits is the only thing that matters. We may have to play that game to justify our existence on this planet, but there's a whole world of value to be found outside of it. Just because we're forced to play the game doesn't mean the game is all there is.