Esther Mondragón

Cats electrocuted, drowned and starved cats in online torture groups, BBC finds A BBC investigation finds cats and kittens mutilated and tortured by online networks with UK links.

We, as a species, are a waste of nature and deserve extinction.

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We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This. #AI
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#TalDíaComoHoy en 1932 nacía y el mismo día, pero de 2020, nos dejaba Frances Elizabeth Allen. Fue la primera mujer que recibió el premio Turing en 2006 (se otorga desde 1966), equivalente al Nobel de Informática. Pionera en la automatización de tareas paralelas.

#WomenInSTEM

Don't forget a fellowship in the British Royal Society!

It is appalling

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I think I will stop here before someone requests my eulogy to save time.

This, I believe. Worrying is always a good excuse not to make the effort. This is, of course, the result of the good education we are delivering.

“Young people “feel immense pressure to create the perfect farewell but worry their writing skills may not do justice to someone they deeply love,” ‘

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Truly sincere, of course
“Most requesters asked the AI to use a “heartfelt” tone”

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Going “their own way”?! 😳

“For families wanting to go their own way, some developers have built consumer-facing AI obituary generators, promoting them as a more specialized way to announce a passing on social media or in the local newspaper than just asking ChatGPT.”

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Indeed, it does, a corrupt flavour

““Do you want it to be more celebratory? Traditional? Poetic? Humorous?” [] “It provides just a new flavor on it, if you will.”"

Not a mother myself, but fuck, no!

“If you had the tool to do ‘25 reasons why I love you, mom,’” she added, “wouldn’t it still mean something, even if it was written by a machine?”

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What is a small fee to alleviate your grief? Tsk, tsk! 😏

“Tech start-ups are also working to build obituary generators that are available to everyone in their time of grief, for a small fee.”

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

Please don’t ever talk about me!

“Funeral directors are increasingly asking the relatives of the deceased whether they would prefer for AI to write the obituary, rather than take on the task themselves.”

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How is the nervous system organized to coordinate behavior? To approach this massive question, a team led by @asbates.bsky.social, @jasper-tms.bsky.social, @mindyisminsu.bsky.social, & Helen Yang present the BANC: a Brain and Nerve Cord connectome.

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🧪#Neuroskyence

using AI to review a paper is one thing (and there's a lot to be said abt that), but submitting a paragraph-long AI summary as a review is a whole 'nother level of laziness. editors, flag that shit & never pass it along to the authors. also don't accept any papers or reviews from that reviewer.

I am fascinated that everyone seems to be scandalised by the sacking of the American Chief statistician, and nobody seems to wonder how a president may have such power in a democratic system.

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Welcome, Fatima! I missed you on social media.

You too!

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Back to work tomorrow, with a new mentality: me la pela!

Small florished garden

Lately, this seems to be the only thing I'm allowed to cultivate and help to thrive. So be it!

Still, not fully acknowledged by the powers that be.

UK to recognise Palestine unless Israel meets conditions Britain will recognise the state of Palestine in September unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the "appalling situation" in Gaza and meets other conditions, British Prime Mini...

Just do it anyway, you buffoon!

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UK will recognise Palestinian state in September unless Israel meets certain conditions, Starmer says - live updates The recognition will happen unless Israel takes

No buts!

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UK will recognise Palestinian state in September unless Israel meets certain conditions, Starmer says - live updates - BBC News

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in one of the biggest open-source AI training ...

Data collection madness is a nightmare "the researchers audited just 0.1% of CommonPool’s data, they estimate that the real number of images containing personally identifiable information, including faces and identity documents, is in the hundreds of millions" 😡😞
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Algebras of actions in an agent's representations of the world In this paper, we propose a framework to extract the algebra of the transformations of worlds from the perspective of an agent. As a starting point, we use our framework to reproduce the symmetry-base...

New version available. The readability of the paper has been greatly improved. Enjoy!
arxiv.org/abs/2310.01536

English universities ‘unprepared’ as new free speech rules loom Institutions review policies ahead of new obligations coming into force but campaigners believe culture change is needed, as they gear up to highlight breaches

I can only wonder whose "freedom of speech" will be sheltered.
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She was a legend. I compulsively, compulsorily, and committedly cite her.

Sad to hear that Margaret Boden, pioneer in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, has passed away.

Just a few days ago, someone reactivated the post below. I warmly recommend watching the video.

Thank you Margaret for founding and shaping our field.

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YouTube video by Future of Intelligence The Margaret Boden Lecture - Lecture One by Professor Margaret Boden (Sussex)

Inaugural Lecture of the Margaret Boden Lecture series at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence

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Obituary: Professor Maggie Boden The University of Sussex mourns the loss of Professor Margaret (Maggie) Boden, a pioneering figure in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

Sadly, they were not fake news. Maggie Boden passed away. She was a true pioneer in AI and Cognitive Sciences, and an inspiration to us all, including men. She incarnated the view that intellect is not at odds with a pink phone.

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