Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

An AI thing I'm watching play out at another org:

1: Expert A, with a deep understanding of a nuanced and difficult problem answers a question they've been given, presenting several choices.

2: Director B, recipient, uses an AI to summarize it and then runs it up to leadership saying, "A says this." That generated summary is subtly and very wrong.

3: A is now being held responsible for plans made based on B's AI-generated and very wrong rewriting of his recommendations.

Fun times.

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@beep

For a moment, let's set aside those directors and shareholders that will never grow beyond "firing people with AI as an excuse increases stock prices". Hopefully customers will ultimately remind them that their job is to make satisfying products.

I think the more important thing in this article is that it tells 3 stories of how people collaborate with AI to write. Two of these stories are negative, one is positive. To me this suggests that Miller and Cowart need to take control of the change.

Recently, I worked on an article on collaborative writing where we reviewed different approaches to it. Only few involved AI, but the important thing is to be aware of the potential different phenomena in writing and decide which ones are worth our time, and which aren't.
Here's the article: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42286-7_5

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A lovely Game Developer article popped up about my GDC talk! https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/raph-koster-wants-developers-to-get-back-to-the-game-of-making-games-

Visual Studio Code extensions are much less secure than browser extensions or even npm packages: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/vscode-extensions-are-insecure/

"Ethics" is not the only problem with generative A.I. -- *epistemology* is broken too.

My latest for Public Books: in the face of #google telling us to eat rocks, we bought an encyclopedia.

https://www.publicbooks.org/the-encyclopedia-project-or-how-to-know-in-the-age-of-ai/

Companion blog post here:

https://www.optoutproject.net/what-is-true-on-the-internet/

#AI #ethics #EthicsInAI #knowledgeinfrastructures #libraries

‘’Measuring Literary Quality: Proxies and Perspectives” is a paper that revisits the “popularity-prestige” dualism of the measures (or proxies) of literary quality. While the results still suggest “the presence of two distinct modes of evaluating quality”, one crowd-based (e.g. GoodReads) and one expert based (e.g. Opensyllabus), there are also in-between measures like library holdings…
Presented by Pascale Feldkamp at the #CCLS2024 conference by @jcls

https://doi.org/10.26083/tuprints-00027391

Quote of the day...

"Everything looks like a conspiracy if you don't understand how anything works."

#HKADH2025 Call for Papers
"Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Humanities"

The Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities (#HKADH) is pleased to announce its inaugural international conference, to be jointly hosted by the University of Hong Kong and Lingnan University on January 16–19, 2025.

Abstracts due date: July 31, 2024

Details: https://2025.hkadh.org/cfp/

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So great to see #DH in #HongKong becoming institutionalized!

The extended version of our study of the explicit references to values in the fairytales of three European cultures has been published in the Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities.

We find that even though the most prominent values are very similar across these three related cultures, the way they are expressed varies in line with specific traditions. Here an illustration of different correlations of motherhood.

https://jdmdh.episciences.org/paper/view/id/13551

Светът гори!
Много хора в България още не са го забелязали
...или си мислят, че техните въглища и техният дизел и тяхната пластмаса не са част от огъня, който младите се борят да изгасят

https://jlai.lu/post/7523184