Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

In preparation for the next Hypertext conference edition, we have asked Vint Cerf (
@vgcerf
), vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google to give us his vision on Hypertext.

Read more (Post + Video): https://ht.acm.org/vint-cerfs-vision-on-hypertext/

Here you can watch the video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vHm3ftCCCMU

Enjoy!

"Merci à vous tou•tes d'avoir vérifié les réponses de #ChatGPT pendant des mois, ainsi améliorant notre modèle. Après avoir extrait votre #digitallabor, nous sommes désormais prêts à vous faire payer un abonnement pour pouvoir accéder à ce même service." https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plus/

Just in case anyone is feeling this way but doesn’t know how to express it: an academic career does at pretty much every stage require you to learn how to produce entirely new genres of writing, often on the fly—we often provide too little guidance & too few models for each one, with some strange expectation that folks will just figure it out.

Figured out research papers? Write a dissertation!

Finished the diss? Make it a book! Write a grant proposal!

Did those things? Write a statements of your research, service, & teaching philosophies for your dossier!

Case in point, just this semester—nearly 2 decades after I started grad school!—I wrote my very 1st letters evaluating tenure cases—another entirely new genre I’ve never once read, because I was always on the other side of that process.

So just: it’s not that you can’t write or think—it’s maybe that you’re being asked to think & write in new genres all the time

Chaosnet: The #Lisp Machine network protocol that was beat by TCP/IP

"The only really visible remnant of #Chaosnet is the CH DNS class. There’s something about that fact that I find strangely fascinating. The CH class is a vestigial ghost of an alternative network protocol in a world that has long since settled on TCP/IP. It’s exciting, at least to me, to know that the last traces of Chaosnet still lurk out there in the infrastructure of our networked society. The CH DNS class is a fun artifact of digital archaeology. But it’s also a living reminder that the internet was not born fully formed, that TCP/IP is not the only way to connect computers to each other, and that “the internet” is far from the coolest name we could have had for our global communication system."

https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/30/chaosnet.html

#lispmachines

He needs those parts for his spaceship, he's going to otter space.🚀

Talk about wildly anti-patterned. Trying to change a password on an Office365 account. If you paste into the password box, you get a message along the lines of "password cannot contain username". I promise the random string I was pasting contained *no similarity* to the user name. They made me actually type it. Twice. So it's shorter and simpler because who has the time?

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