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Every day, I interact with LLM tools. Useful, fascinating, but I learn* of increasingly bad shenanigans-level chaos around them & although it hasn’t had the predicted impact on my non-academic job, its impact on the edges of many industries is breathtaking and non-positive *mainly @404media.co

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The way AI has ‘arrived’ - in its form and motive for it - reminds me of two movies Not Terminator Ghostbusters and Jurassic Park. For how what we imagine it being the cause of it And it’s being here on the street or island - making everyone affected by it wonder: why is this again?

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@monapower.bsky.social @mary1010.bsky.social

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A useful update on the MIT scandal.

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The irony of MIT having to withdraw an (almost certainly) AI-generated bullshit paper that faked data to prove how great AI is for science (only after having already received glowing WSJ science coverage.)

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I recall this - or some work like it - was a big deal a while ago in LLM-discussion sites What’s frustrating & confusing for an amateur like me is ‘AI’ isn’t clearly defined in these stories So what exactly it all means isn’t either Unlike, seems to me, Google AI Evolve’s genuine non-LLM results

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🧠 Grades of Mind: Agency, Memory, Sentience Free LSE Philosophy Workshop organised by @birchlse.bsky.social 📅 28 May (full day) Hybrid and open to all! ▶️Link to the programme: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...

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“The recent court documents showed that Google's internal testing demonstrated that significantly worse search results would not harm their business operations. This apparent immunity to quality concerns stems from the company's dominant market position” (And these specific folk want us to adopt AI)

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This is what the web is for. If you ever ask yourself, "why did all those people in the 1990s stop watching TV and start typing things on the open web?" this is why. Utterly niche shit that could only exist in a free, collaborative space without ads. rickiheicklen.com/unparalleled...

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Would love to attend - imagine it’ll be interesting AND York (where I lived early in my PhD (at Leeds) is a beautiful place

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@birchlse.bsky.social, really enjoying your book! A question: the valenced experience under which suffering falls is ethically relevant. But guessing aesthetic experience is valenced experience too? Could a being incapable of pain or pleasure have ethically-IRrelevant, purely aesthetic sentience?

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Interesting use of AI(LLM-type, not exactly LLM): www.404media.co/email/0cb70e... (From @404media.co - follow them!)

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My paper, co-authored with Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, on how AI challenges traditional conceptions of discrimination is now published in The Journal of Ethics! Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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great open access paper by Ali Boyle and Simon Brown in the naturalistic section of Philosophy Compass, which I edit.

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As a lefty, this hits. Although, unlike eye colour, tongue curl, and earlobes, I'd never heard it as being an inheritance thing anyway (almost no-one in my very large extended family is left-handed, much less than 10%)

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Please send me the funny/terrible Google AI/chat GPT search results you have spotted. For example, the one that suggests eating one small rock per day, or the one that suggests using an iron to smooth your scrotum wrinkles.

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A new study hit the headlines claiming that cannabis can treat cancer. It was a remarkable case of total AI slop. One of the worst published studies I've ever come across. My new piece: gidmk.substack.com/p/medicinal-...

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Are we “strangers to ourselves”? Classic theories say people have limited insight into how they decide. Our new paper at @natcomms.nature.com challenges this view. With @rcarl.bsky.social sky.social, @hedykober.bsky.social y.social, and @mjcrockett.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

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@404media.co ’s latest episode on meta fake therapists and a Reddit ai fake advisors on the ‘change my mind’ subreddit reveals something … kind of worse than I could have imagined… [doesn’t seem to be in the free feed yet but it’s essential listening when it is]

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@emilymbender.bsky.social, I'm really liking your thoughts on LLMs. Even tho my impression of one is 'thinking individual there' (it's like intense, curated pareidolia) I'm giving a (philosophy) talk soon on projecting personhood on LLMs. Is dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... your preferred work on this?

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@monapower.bsky.social

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What I find most difficult about being an adult and doing the difficult adult things in life is that, unlike what my childhood tv and movie watching told me, there are no montages Well, except when you’re drunk, but then I neither Learn karate Or combine into a giant robot So

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The massive explosion in use of satellite imagery by archaeologists has led to the discovery of hundreds of thousands of ancient sites and features across the world in the last 25 years, none of which were known about previously due to data resolution+coverage. This is also a post about autism

submitted 30 days ago • 24 comments

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

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BREAKING: Google loses the adtech case, has unlawful monopoly over advertising tech. HUGE deal - it is the source of their monopoly profits - and now puts pressure on the EU to step up and finish the job. www.theverge.com/news/650665/...

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