Andrew Williams

Assimilation-induced dehumanization: Psychology research uncovers a dark side effect of AI As AI becomes more empathetic, a surprising psychological shift occurs. New research finds that interacting with emotionally intelligent machines can make us see real people as more machine-like, subt...

This is fascinating research.

I remember back when I used to play The Sims a lot, I'd sometimes have a weird sensation looking at actual people in the street, and seeing them as Sims. I guess that is similar to this, but this is going to be more pervasive.

www.psypost.org/assimilation...

Indeed, it's already dealt with by the time you see the file, but using skyview, not astropy :-)

YouTube video by artistwithouttalent Total Eclipse of the Heart Literal Video Version

Have you seen the 'literal lyrics' version of that? It's amazing... youtu.be/fsgWUq0fdKk?...

If Roy & HG were calling that move: Trump just did a standing double backflip with pike

I'll take a photo next time I'm in the lab. Move back to Perth and start a PhD here and you'd get to play with gear like that every day :-)

The lab is full of cool gear - including a big box full of capacitors and sulphur hexafluoride, used to drive an antenna to generate EMP pulses in an enclosed chamber, to study how to harden IC's against damage.

Wow, I didn't know there was amateur gear up in the GHz.

Definitely. So what are you building?

You should come visit CIRA so I can show you round the lab. There's lots of goodies there to geek out over if you're into RF.

I was writing a plan for big changes to the MWA telescope control software. After a page of bullet points about database columns, etc, the AI plugin I'm using - trained on millions of lines of real-world code - helpfully autosuggested:

"For now, lets just ignore the problem and hope for the best."

Postmodern Jukebox tonight at the Astor - they were great.

He's very good at finding bugs, and the cursor, provided they are moving around.

YouTube video by Andrew Williams Oreo helping me find a bug.

And here's Oreo learning to programme in Python, just a few months ago. youtu.be/xEOFgta--2k?...

YouTube video by Andrew Williams SETI story on Today Tonight, 1995

Here's a TV segment that Today Tonight (dodgy WA 'news' programme) did about SETI in 1995, while I still had my PhD-student beard. It's so cringe-worthy it's hilarious now, 30 years later. youtu.be/nspfNt7iEuU?...

Hmm. No way to edit out typos after you post.

Thought I'd better sign up ahead of the bad exodus. This seems to be a Twitter replacement though, not a Facebook replacement, and I've never actually used Twitter...