Arthur Lapraye

screenshot of a popup on Google Sheets with two buttons "Learn more" and "Got it" header reads "Gemini can now do more for you in Sheets" with "for" scribbled out in red, and the word AS above it, so it says "Gemini can now do more AS you in Sheets" below that: Gemini can now make requested changes and insert content directly into your files. HIGHLIGHTED TEXT: All inserted content will be attributed to you in version history. For inline features like =Al), Gemini will insert content directly. For the side panel, Gemini will provide a preview first unless it understands your goal is a direct edit, such as making a pivot table or adding conditional formatting. Gemini in Workspace can make mistakes, including about people, so double-check responses.

google wants to introduce errors into my spreadsheets and attribute them to me

I see python code I want it linted black

We need "you are not immune to propaganda" but for AI use risks

We have seen too many cases of
1. Highly educated folk starting to believe LLMs are sentient.
2. Folk with no prior mental health issues becoming delusional.
3. Prrofessionals becoming reliant on it to do things they could do better.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

I was curious about the mindset of people defending the recent mod sloppiness, and it took like 10 seconds to see the phrase "anti-ai bigot" used with full sincerity.

Je suis toujours déboussolé quand j'entends des gens louer la qualité "musicale" du finnois. D'accord c'est rythmé mais je connais pas de prosodie plus plate.

the reason bigotry is bad isnt because it treats ANYTHING as a mere object, its bad because it objectifies PEOPLE. if you treat an inanimate object as an inanimate object, that is acttually what we would like to call "sensible"

thinking a lot today about the moral cowardice of any nation not following the hard data about Portugal's drugs decriminalisation project. it's the same as data from ubi trials.

"we have found a way to unequivocally benefit people, but it makes my tummy hurt to think about"

It is deeply unfortunate that anyone thinks equating computers with people demonstrates how much they value people

There’s a New Lawsuit Against “Kavanaugh Stops.” It’s Absolutely Devastating. These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience the justice described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous.

An arrest of a person due entirely to the person having dark skin color is now known across the country as a "Kavanaugh stop," based on Justice Kavanaugh's justification of the practice. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Gonna market my revolutionary "coin toss" method as providing nearly the same accuracy as world renowned software company Microsoft for an infinitesimal fraction of the cost. It costs a single penny and you don't even have to spend it.

friend, lemme tell ya something about GenAI

that shit sucks

The question is—will it cause a bunch of wrongful convictions, make it impossible to convict on video evidence, or both?

The Fundraising-Industrial Complex Is Eating American Politics New data reveals campaigns burn about a third of donations raised just asking for more donations

"When nearly one-third of all political contributions get recycled back into asking for more contributions, we've created a system that exists primarily to perpetuate itself while enriching fundraising consultants." data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-fundra...

Si c'est un sondage au format habituel la marge d'erreur est de 3% non ?

It is remarkable - and ridiculous - that the head of ChatGPT at OpenAI can still not directly explain why people use ChatGPT

School history lessons minimise the role of women, report finds Campaigners say key stage 3 curriculum plays to misogny and teaches a ‘false version of the past’

'Even when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught in lessons than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park during the second world war 1/2

am sure this absolutely sucked to deal with but this also looks like the cover for a killer circa-2009 indie rock EP

Do you know what I find wild tho? Nearly a decade of being an ethicist - raising concerns, questions, challenges in a plethora of contexts has been my job. This is different. I’ve never felt so at risk personally for doing this as I do for LLMs. People get personally offended, get nasty even.

The question isn't if someone might succeed at creating the thousand-year Reich, the question is how many deaths will the failed attempt cost this time.

@peterokii writes: oh poor baby 🥺🥺 do you need the robot to make you pictures? 🥺🥺 yeah? 🥺🥺 do you need the bo-bot to write you essay too? yeah ??? you can't do it?? 🥺🥺 you're a moron?? 🥺🥺 do you need chat gpt to fuck your wife ?? 🥺🥺🥺

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

I've got a hand gesture for them

did we need to invest a trillion dollars to "learn" that statistical distributions that are fit to data *may* still revert to the correct mean but nonetheless produce outliers that are the wrong kind of outliers?

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5098310c/f2.item.r="insulté%20de%20sale%20Corse".zoom Phrase du numéro 4696 du « Républicain de Constantine » : « Hier, dans la même rue, un honnête ouvrier de l’Est-‌Algérien a été attaqué par des “youpins” et insulté de sale Corse. »

(Ce ne sont pas des emplois ditransitifs : « Z » n’y fait pas partie d’un complément indirect, mais d’un attribut du complément direct.)

Cas épineux pour lequel « tenté » est bien adapté ! La plus ancienne attestation que j’ai relevée date du 13 novembre 1894. Le contexte en est… antisémite.

Oui bonne remarque, je n'étais pas sûr de ma terminologie

Mais ?? Il doit être tout petit !

i strongly encourage parents not to post photos of your children on the internet