Thomas Nyckel

Wir benötigen eine existenzielle Informatik.

Eine Informatik also, die in einer existenzialen Überwölbung und Durchdringung ihrer selbst einen sinnstiftenden Horizont gefunden hat 🤗

With AI becoming more and more complex, we might in the end no longer call on programmers to fix its errors but on psychoanalysts and therapists.

For AI in general, they’d ask: “So, these hallucinations you experience…”

Or for Grok in particular: “Uhm, when you refer to yourself as Mechahitler…”

Die zeigerlose Uhr am Regensburger Hauptbahnhof. Am Himmel darüber ein kleiner Schwarm fliegender Tauben.

Die zeigerlose Uhr am Regensburger Hauptbahnhof. Wie ein Anwehen aus einer Epoche, die eben noch war, nun nicht mehr...?

Time is out of joint (Karen Barad).

GitHub - Cantorstaub/Lidar-on-Wheels: Code for the Lidar on Wheels, a small experimental robot built at the Virtual Humanities Lab to study the implications of sensors, robotics, and scaling of digita... Code for the Lidar on Wheels, a small experimental robot built at the Virtual Humanities Lab to study the implications of sensors, robotics, and scaling of digital artifacts. - Cantorstaub/Lidar-on...

For English readers, a brief description of the Lidar on Wheels robot we built at the Virtual Humanities Lab can be found here:

github.com/Cantorstaub/...

Virtualisierung von Umgebungen Für ein besseres Verständnis von virtuellen Lebenswelten autonomer Maschinen: der Bau eines Roboters als medienwissenschaftliches Experiment.

📗🤖 OUT NOW: Our book on building #robots in the Humanities:

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In German, open access.

This 4-year-old kid told me: "NO, this is not a com-put-er, this is a POL-LUTER!" 💻

Well, looking at AI information-bombing global communication
looking at the footprints of digital technology
this kid might have a point 🤔

#Weizenbaum, at the very least, would have nodded

Der #Cyberspace in Gibsons »Neuromancer«, »Burning Chrome«…
Vielleicht geht es hier nicht um den Entwurf neuer Medientechnologie. Vielleicht geht es um die Vermittlung viel älterer Erfahrungen von Körper, Raum und Bewegung: Die ersten Flugversuche, die ersten Zugfahrten, das panoramatische Sehen.

Neuer Trend: Ehrliche Werbung?
Ich weiß noch nicht
Ich weiß noch nicht wie ich das finden soll

We have been using Obsidian at the Virtual Humanities Lab at Ruhr university Bochum. It is a little bit complex in some aspects, but worth the effort.
Check out the plugin "Dataview" for Obsidian. It might be useful for what you have in mind 👍

It’s called “Artificial Intelligence” because, traditionally, researchers stuffed things into this category when they didn’t know how to solve or even address them. The idea has always been “when computers can do THIS they’ll be truly smart!”

I'm seeing folks talk about deleting their art + re-uploading with anti-AI measures and I just want to say maybe consider not doing that?

I get wanting to protect your art, but in case your art gets stolen by someone, you have a record showing you uploaded it first ages ago proving that's your IP.

Good question!

Kurt Gödel for example never published anything if he was not absolutely convinced that the paper was flawless (by his standards).

I often wonder if Gödel would still find a place in today's academia and how he might adapt.

I think I might already have encountered one of these data-scraping accounts on Bluesky, albeit my account has only a few followers. Something to have an eye on, probably.

In der Frage zeigt sich deutlich, warum wir uns auf diese Diskussion nicht einlassen sollten. Kritik an 6 J. war Ausgangspunkt von #IchBinHanna. 6 J. sind schlecht. 4+2 löst Probleme nicht. Wer jetzt fragt, was besser ist, hat schon aufgegeben, auf echte Lösung zu drängen. Wir geben das nicht auf.

Ich stehe in grünem Shirt und schwarzer Leggins in einer Zimmerecke. Hinter mir links eine Holztür, rechts eine weiße Schrankwand. Ich halte ein Schild in der Hand mit der Aufschrift "Promovieren für den Rausschmiss? #IchBinHanna"

Der aktuelle politische Kurs bezüglich des #WissZeitVG zeigt deutlich: wir müssen laut bleiben. Auch, wenn ich mich manchmal frage, woher wir eigentlich die Kraft nehmen sollen - denn wenn nach Jahren der Debatte zum Status quo zurückgekehrt wird, macht das sprachlos. /1 #IchBinHanna

Eine Frau in wertvollen Gewändern ist im Garten; sie kniet und umarmt eine Vase. Ihr Gesicht ist nach hinten geneigt. Die Augen sind geschlossen und sie sieht traurig aus.

„Die Poesie heilt die Wunden, die der Verstand schlägt.“

Gute Nacht mit Novalis

As an experiment, I have occasionally used ChatGPT and Gemini to answer my kids' homework questions. Both have a 100% failure rate. Every single time I do it, the machine confidently spits out an answer that looks credible but is quite obviously wrong if you know the subject.

Military people smiling - never a good sign

The article attached is worth reading for researchers interested in sensors, semi-autonomous driving and/or gig-work.

If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.

www.reuters.com/technology/t...

Die letzten Vorhersagen lassen es so aussehen, ja. Hoffen wir dennoch, dass es anders kommt.
Grüße nach Bochum!

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The floor of a railwaystation, the tracks and a person's legs, chilling.

Montägliches Bahnkantenwarten.

Wenn aus 28 Minuten Fahrzeit 1,5 h werden, werfen sich Fragen auf:

Steigen Zugverspätung und DB-Rendite etwa gemeinsam - als zwei Seiten derselben Medaille??

Korrelation, Kausalbeziehung... In der Heterotopie des Bahnhofs wirkt alles möglich ... und nichts

Agreed - and the phenomenon of AI in its current form seems not to be compost in the positive way of Donna Haraway's use of the term, à la "we are not posthuman - we are compost."

A New Digital Species Key insights of today’s newsletter: In his new role as the CEO of the Microsoft AI devision, Mustafa Suleyman gave TED talk in Vancouver, Canada. In his talk, Suleyman suggested we need new words and ...

»Just a few years ago, people said that AI would never be creative. And yet AI now feels like an endless river of creativity, making poetry and images and music and video that stretch the imagination.« (Mustafa Suleyman)

Dunno, feels more like a compost heap than an endless river, if you ask me

Without jumping to conclusions about the similarities between different epochs – the second sentence on the memorial plaque for Moritz Schlick at the University of Vienna feels heavier recently.

As @wordsbywesink.bsky.social put it, it is a rabbit hole. But thanks again. I will look at these passages.

Could they use scientific data or a text one has written for their purposes on a legal basis? Have you encountered something like this?

I will dive into the terms of use as soon as I have the opportunity; thanks for pointing me in this direction.

But besides this—certainly highly problematic—use of data for AI, does your answer imply that these companies are, in some cases (according to their terms of use, etc.), legally entitled to claim your data as their own?