Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

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

Commissioned by the British consul Daniel-Fitzgerald Barton, Victoria Hall in #Geneva was built between 1891 and 1893 to plans by Swiss architect John Camoletti. It was inaugurated in 1894.