Carl Joseph

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

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My interview for *The Philosopher's Zone* podcast on Feminism and Primatology is out now!

I managed to scrounge up the courage to listen and I'm quite proud 🙃

You can listen to the ep via the ABC website or in the usual podcast places

#hps #sts #histsci #PhilSci #feminism #primatology

Thanks for taking the hit to watch Sky News for the rest of us

Thankfully, because of preferential voting, this needn’t be the case

Trump administration accused of ‘blatant foreign interference’ in Australian universities over questionnaire on DEI and gender Researchers told to respond within 48 hours to more than 30 questions, including on DEI, gender and climate

So stupid.

Yet, this really shines a light on the underlying racism belly that exists in Australia.

If this article was changed so every instance of "US" switched to "China" (as an example), then people would be yelling 25 hours a day about this. And yet, we don't see much discussion on this.

Trump administration accused of ‘blatant foreign interference’ in Australian universities over questionnaire on DEI and gender Researchers told to respond within 48 hours to more than 30 questions, including on DEI, gender and climate

Even the tyranny of distance won’t protect us from the tyrrany of the current US (lack of) government.

Incredibly strange decision from the society

INTRODUCTION

A very good online lesson-style thing about what ChatGPT is and whether it's a huge invention (or just bullshit).

Probably a great thing to get in front of your students, seeing as they're almost definitely using it regularly: thebullshitmachines.com

Nice. I might have to take another closer look at it

Thanks Ryan! Do you find Quarto useful for non stats/coding stuff too?

I’m using Scrivener as my writing tool and compiling with pandoc, citeproc, etc.

Ahh so they make more expensive and experienced people redundant and hire back cheaper. How awful, especially for those who were let go :(

Isn’t there a time limit for when you can rehire for a redundant position?

This Cybertruck did not crash. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash, but we should not rush to judgement.

Curious how they justify the AI use given their climate action stance?

Why do tech bros keep reinventing eugenics and phrenology?!

Interesting thread #histsci #philsci #hps

This is beyond devastating. I can not imagine the lifelong / intergenerational trauma these children will experience

Pale blue dot The myth of the ‘overview effect’, and how it serves space industry entrepreneurs

The “overview effect” that point to, may not have been “all that”. Here’s an interesting perspective - www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2020/d...

Tweet from @ace_librarian7. Text reads: I have made it my mission to unteach children that “fiction is fake.” - Nonfiction = learning through information - Fiction = learning through imagination

Reminds me of this:

Nonfiction = learning through information

Fiction = learning through imagination

That sounds like a philosophical position ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I haven’t read the paper yet, but does the medium have an impact? I note their analysis is based on twitter data

As it should be since we’re in the “good place” :) There’s always something to learn, even from people you may initially disagree with

Interesting. Not offended at all, I’m Australian :D

I think the boundaries are a whole lot blurrier than we may like. It is useful to separate them. It is useful to leave things blurry too.

I think it’s interesting how we often seperate technology, experiments, etc. from “science”

I see what you’re saying here. When advancements are made in rocketry (say through experimentation and actually trying stuff out), do they not also advance our scientific knowledge?

Couldn’t you argue that technology is the very application of science? Technological advancement is scientific advancement

DOGE? They’re calling it DOGE? just goes to show how childish this lot really are

Ooh I hadn’t heard of this being a myth. Very interesting - thanks for sharing

Carl presenting at a seminar. Screen behind him shows his research plans. There is a picture of SpongeBob's hands writing a to-do list. The list reads "Wake-up" which is crossed out, and "Finish my PhD".

Carl presenting at a seminar. Screen behind him has a picture of Frank Constanza that reads "We will now commence with the airing of grievances"

Carl presenting at a seminar. Screen behind him has a quote from James Janesick describing how JPL recognised that scientists should become familiar with the CCD.

Memes are always required in your PhD Confirmation seminar. #histsci #STS