Jean Burgess

Feedback and ideas very welcome!

Agreed!

We just released a *big* working paper on Voice AI and Authenticity as part of the ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society @admscentre.org.au

It surveys the history of the tech, emerging issues, and what can be done

Check it out at Australian Policy Online here:
apo.org.au/node/331920

This is interesting - kind of a re-enchantment of earlier methods as "hand-crafted" despite all the machines involved. I think it's a general pattern maybe

Shout-out to fellow Angelfire homesteaders

#notallcleons

I can't remember exactly but it's also clearly a midlife crisis as he's about to be the next Dusk

Cleon the whateverth in fluffy bedwear, about to do a shroom

It's great that there's a new season of Foundation, the best space opera/sci fi epic ever, and I admit I'm inattentive* but why has the current Cleon (Day edition) turned into The Dude? Guy's wandering around in a bathrobe, taking spliffs off shrooms, and generally DGAF

*post-viral brainfogged

Job for a professional HASS research infrastructure person! Program Manager, Australian Internet Observatory

rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RMIT_Careers...?

I wish you joy at all times.

Promo tile for the Netflix series Hostage which has been panned by reviewers but which, as previously mentioned, has Suranne Jones in it. As a Prime Minister!!

I don't *care* if it's terrible it has Suranne Jones

Character.AI Gave Up on AGI. Now It’s Selling Stories Startup Character.AI once promised superintelligence. Its new CEO says it's now an entertainment company with 20 million users.

It is really funny (sad, infuriating) to watch companies start to slowlyyyyy back away from the AGI.

www.wired.com/story/charac...

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I am getting 3 review requests a DAY. This whole academic publishing thing isn't going to end well.

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It seems to me that a lot of the AI discourse glides right over the key word “model.” If we had better public literacy around what models are and do we might be in a better position. (Please don’t @ me with the Box quote.)

Good stuff! If what's important about the humanities is critical thinking, scholarship and all that stuff, let's use that to work out and through this moment. Can the cheap slogans

Finally, something true. Usefulness would be a better place to start!

Of course this exists

I didn't know until this very moment how much I needed this

This is Percy. He's experiencing his first rainfall. Wants to know if you're seeing what he's seeing. 12/10 (TT: percy.boy.jackson)

Me, on the telly, restraining my intense feelings of irritation

This whole day on the radio was so wholesome, and much needed given everything

London is full of gimmicks & porno films.

In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.

The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive"

www.404media.co/the-astronom...

After all these reports of authors adding language instructions for LLM reviews in their papers I wanted to check this myself and I downloaded the .tex source from one of these papers.

Here is an example.
(I will not share the identity of the paper)

Where to even begin with this