David Cooper @cooplogic@qoto.org

I am so honored to be on a panel with THE @RodneyABrooks about AI and ChatGPT on Friday at #IEEEVICS @BlackInRobotics @black_in_ai @BlackWomenInAI @IEEEorg @BlkInEngineerng #NoireSTEMinist #IEEEAWards2023 @ccmntspeakers @RoseHulman
https://corporate-awards.ieee.org/event/2023-vic-summit-honors-ceremony-gala/#what

"Especially in this moment in history, it is vital that we provide our students with the critical thinking skills that will allow them to recognise misleading claims made by tech companies and understand the limits and risks of hyped and harmful technology that is made mainstream at a dazzling speed and on a frightening scale."

Excellent call to action by @Iris

https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/01/14/stop-feeding-the-hype-and-start-resisting/

@jax_nature_photos55 @Dr_Brian_Pet @Rihilism @wyld_art_photos @JulieNye @sunnymyers @NickSkupien thanks Jax. Saw some great birds here today to boot.

I’m gonna do a manual quote here to say that this is exactly the type of stuff we predicted, and especially with automation bias with people overtrusting model outputs. Police didn’t even check the height of the person they claimed did this, and neither was the person in Atlanta.

https://dair-community.social/@poppastring@dotnet.social/109634255362720798

Depressing that it was 5 years ago we wrote Gendershades (http://gendershades.org/) showing disparities & write:

"an error in the output of a face recognition algorithm used as input for other tasks can have serious consequences. For example, someone could
be wrongfully accused of a crime based on erroneous but confident misidentification of the perpetrator from security video footage analysis."

And here we are. And this is not the first case, nor will it be the last.

https://peopleofcolorintech.com/articles/facial-recognition-tech-used-to-jail-black-man-for-louisiana-theft-hes-never-been-to-louisiana/

I thought we were making progress when there was a wave of cities banning law enforcement use of face recognition but at this point it seems to be getting adopted everywhere exponentially.

I learnt to watch birds by watching birds—their patience, attentiveness, and awareness. Here’s a Green heron I found early one morning.

@jewwhohasitall

Too often Black folks, many times #BlackWomen, are tasked with being the voice of #DEI reason in their organization.

Where are those 2020 #diversity initiatives and commitments today? Are those employees even with the company still? Or did they #burnout after realizing their efforts were falling on deaf organizational ears? 🤔 😣

Sharing from #LinkedIn #BlackMastodon #Diversity

So @Raspberry_Pi just spun up a @Mastodon instance. I talk about why we're doing it, and (the fun bit) how we did it. Because it's running on a Pi in the Sky☁️ on a #RaspberryPi 4 with #IPv6 only networking hosted at @beasts. #RaspberryPi is now part of the #TwitterMigration. https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/an-escape-pod-was-jettisoned-during-the-fighting/

What happens when you twist your lens' focus ring while shooting long exposures of fireworks

#photography

OK, here’s an idea I want to try. Without looking it up on the Internet anywhere, just off the top of your head, do you know who Emmy Noether is? You can look her up after answering, but don’t post the answer till the poll is over! Please boost for more numbers. #women

Good morning to the home of “shockingly pretty pictures of wild birds”! Here’s a favorite bird pic of mine I took this fall of two Yellow-rumped Warblers arguing over some berries. The secret to making bird pictures really pretty though, is adding descriptions to them! #birds