From day two of Attention: Govern or Be Governed in Montreal
Gary Marcus on why not just chatbots, but LLMs as an approach to AI, are likely overhyped.
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26.10.2025 06:28 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I think there's an enormous difference between fair use and hoovering up data without attribution to authors. But it's a complex and nuanced argument, probably not best translated into accusations of joining a bandwagon. I take it you see AI training on copyrighted corpora as fair use?
23.10.2025 20:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
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17.10.2025 15:29 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
ICE Map
ICE Map - Visualizing ICE activity
High school students are using the Media Cloud database to map ICE activity around the US via news reports at icemap.dev
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16.10.2025 15:10 — 👍 24 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
This is the obvious absurdity of pulling ICEBlock. It is obviously legal, protected speech for anyone to say, in any forum, “I just witnessed some police activity at location X”. Indeed, people have been doing this regularly on social media since its inception.
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Chatbots may not keep getting better
Training AI doesn’t only depend on data but on the way humans, with all our drives and flaws, interact with it
Training AI doesn’t only depend on data but on the way humans, with all our drives and flaws, interact with it, writes @ethanz.bsky.social. And is that really destined to improve?
01.10.2025 14:25 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Awesome. Come find me, Rob - Thompson Hall, rm 530. Mostly on campus Tuesdays and Thursdays.
24.09.2025 17:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
and Jamie is on WBAI discussing these issues, about halfway through this show: wbai.org/archive/prog...
Proud to work with someone considering these important issues. #StandUpforHigherEd
24.09.2025 17:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Worthy of Justice: The Politics of Veterans Treatment Courts in Practice
Amazon.com: Worthy of Justice: The Politics of Veterans Treatment Courts in Practice: 9781503611498: Rowen, Jamie: Books
While a great example of diversion from traditional incarceration-focused justice systems, these courts raise questions of who deserves an understanding and forgiving approach to justice.
The book, "Worthy of Justice", is available for pre-order: www.amazon.com/Worthy-Justi...
24.09.2025 17:10 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
My #UMass friend and colleague Jamie Rowan has a new book coming out about Veterans Treatment Courts, a "problem solving" court that helps veterans access VA medical and social services in resolution of cases concerning drug abuse and mental health issues.
24.09.2025 17:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
there's an enormous amount of messaging attacking expertise in general, and higher education in particular. Those of us who work hard teaching, researching and caring for our students need to be telling our stories as well.
24.09.2025 16:22 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
In the spirit of standing up for higher ed, I'm going to be highlighting great work that colleagues at UMass and elsewhere are doing, using #DefendHigherEd as the hashtag. I'd encourage you to do the same
24.09.2025 16:22 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Stand Together
They're founding a new organization - Stand Together for Higher Ed - which is organizing a national webinar on reclaiming the narrative on October 29. For more on the org and the webinar - www.standtogetherhighered.org
24.09.2025 16:22 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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