Einar W. Høst

Can someone who is into the nomenclature explain to me if Pete Hegseth is a centaur or a cyborg with respect to AI?

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

One of my unfounded conspiracy theories about generative AI is that to fake the "intelligence" they simply packed in a very high unpredictability factor. Rogue actions feel like a choice, a decision of intellect, while predictability does not; predictability is already served by non-AI software.

wint @dril drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not, 18:20 09 May 14

2 years of seeing my friends and colleagues in the climate movement doing this has radicalised me

i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI

in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period

Purple aka bewitched aka mind-controlled aka evil minions.

The so-called AI era feels like the part of a Despicable Me movie where all the minions have turned purple.

I see my friend @malk-zameth.bsky.social is doing a talk on "out of the tar pit" and would love to do an "into the tar pit" co-talk at some point.

Etymology of superfluous, composite of "super" meaning "over" and "fluere" meaning "to flow".

"Stack superfluous"

Nobody wants to know what you and your chatbot talked about

Evergreen.

Har sagt dette mange ganger, men: hvis du driver med NOE SOM HELST KREATIVT og bruker AI til å promotere det er jeg ikke interessert. Du kan spille i verdens kuleste band. Er plakaten eller platecoveret AI kommer jeg ikke til å sjekke dere ut.

From a discussion in RISF based on the old IBM adage, an updated version for the modern era:

Here's the claim: we choose an architecture (e.g. microservices) to avoid doing design (defining how things should work).

Software developers be like what’s the purpose of architecture if I still have to design?

Reminder that unless you can trace the actual source of a quote, it's fake.

Mark Twain and Benjamin Franklin uttered fewer self-help gems than one might think.

In my slide decks, I've started including quotes of what AI leaders believe to be true, and helps break through the notion that they are some sort of genius magicians.

This context matters, if you are to decide about using and trusting (!) the products they make.

Have said it before and will say it again: No one will ever convince me that a machine or artificial system deserves more rights and dignity than the human with the least. If your project is convincing me of the worth of the former, better out your resources into improving that of the latter.

...while delivering fish of slowly deteriorating quality.

Teach a man to fish and you'll feed him for a lifetime, sell a man a subscription for fish and he'll grow dependent upon you for survival and you can jack up the price over time.

Can't wait to have an order of magnitude more of that.

Code is computational microplastics.

Yeah and we're looking at a tremendous conservative lock-in force to keep using those technologies, building an unprecedented amount of those same bloated, dependency-heavy, vulnerability-prone SPAs. Bloated SPAs that are imitations of bloated SPAs. Terrible architecture and terrible UX at scale.

600 submissions is crazy.

How many slots?

Oh wow looks like I'm going to Antwerp in June.

D'oh! Maybe try submitting to some other conferences as well? Sounds like a talk I'd like to see :-)

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

I find this whole "AI agent wrote a hit piece" thing really troubling for reasons that have nothing to do with bots getting "mad" and "deciding" to take down open source contributors. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

Why do we keep wanting to give AI so much agency that it lets humans off the hook??

"From whatever to non sequitur: a guide to AI-generated talk titles"

Screenshot from YouTube, with an AI-generated summary of my talk on "The AI puppet dance", enthusiastically stating "Witness a puppet show, but with AI!"

Good Grief!