muchas gracias por este experimento!

ojalá le llegue a los responsables y usen esa herramienta en un entorno menos peligroso. Por ejemplo, para ayudar a profesionales a hacer resúmenes simples de los prospectos.

Y ojalá muchas otras personas aprendan a hacer estas pruebas y las hagan!

Ya existimos, somos los farmacéuticos. "Consulte a su farmacéutico" y todo eso.

Mónica NOOOOOOOOOO

When you think of money as "other people's labor", which it basically is, a lot of social institutions become very strange.

For example, did you know that you can inherit millions of hours of other people's labor? Why.

“We must understand that we build our own narratives. If we don’t, the far right will monopolize the narratives, create myths, and we will spend our lives fact-checking while they write history.”

“Therein lies the great opportunity of AI: It’s not an oracle, but a bridge to the unknown.”

Measuring and Benchmarking Large Language Models' Capabilities to Generate Persuasive Language We are exposed to much information trying to influence us, such as teaser messages, debates, politically framed news, and propaganda - all of which use persuasive language. With the recent interest in...

maybe sthg like this: arxiv.org/abs/2406.17753

great, extensive, careful empirical work on persuasion and LLMs, involving people (not other LLMs) as the ultimate source of judgement, with respect, replicability and insight, by @iaugenstein.bsky.social and colleagues

Screenshot reading: "A good example of this could be witnessed during the pandemic. In the early days of Covid-19, businesses shut down en masse. Laid-off employees swarmed online to apply for unemployment benefits, and the websites for many state governments crashed under the load. In New Jersey, the governor told the press that their COBOL systems desperately needed help to deal with the new demands. “Literally, we have systems that are 40-plus-years-old,” he noted. But technologists who were working behind the scenes to fix the problems knew that the number-crunching COBOL wasn’t the problem. That old stuff was working fine. No, it was the newer stuff that had crashed — the programs powering the website itself. “The thing that went bananas was this web application in between the mainframe and the outside world. That was the thing that sort of fell apart,” says Marianne Bellotti, a programmer and writer who worked for years on government systems, and who observed New Jersey’s system. But it’s too embarrassing, as the historian Hicks points out, to admit that “oh, our web systems broke down.” Bellotti’s seen the same thing happen with other government agencies, like the IRS. She was called in once to help with an IRS web app that wasn’t working. When they investigated, they found that, indeed, the problem was in newer programs, “this chunk of poorly written Java code”. The mainframe running COBOL, in contrast, was racing along like a Ferrari."

Remember back during COVID, when there was a sudden influx of people applying for unemployment benefits?

The New Jersey system crashed ...

... and governor blamed it on old COBOL systems

Nope

He was wrong

the COBOL ran *fine*

It was the newer web-site code that croaked

5/9

This piece reminds us of the real, practical value of media archaeology, which some have dismissed as a nostalgia-driven enterprise. It shows us the systems that could have been, that should’ve been, that embody different values, but which were sometimes out-marketed + monetized. More examples: …

I can help if you still need people. I am Laura Alonso Alemany from Argentina, a fan of your work :-)

Nuestros estudiantes no sólo aprenden sobre modelos de lenguaje, sino también sobre cómo usarlos de forma independiente y avanzando hacia mayor soberanía. Gracias siempre @nwolovick.bsky.social y CCAD UNC!

supercomputo.unc.edu.ar/2025/01/03/c...

Gregor the Overlander is one of the best things you can find. If not, Northern Lights? less light-hearted, but definitely thrilling

no contesta, y queremos ir a mezclar...

qué bueno conversar, repensar, sentir que entendemos un poco más, un poco mejor. Gracias por la invitación, y espero que está conversación de pie a muchas otras, no sólo nuestras :-D

Mañana voy a estar hablando de datos y privacidad en este foro en el Centro Cultural Córdoba.
Todos invitados.

este gnomo de jardín hecho íntegramente de MDMA me hizo pensar en @capitanintriga.bsky.social y su gusto por las figuritas de jardín.