Every time discover a new piece on the dangers of LLMs, particularly for research and teaching, I add it to a Zotero library. I figure that I might as well share it, so here's my library of Cautionary AI Tales: www.zotero.org/groups/62758...
Just learned of this effort to crowd-source a mega list of examples of benefits to health, prosperity, and national security resulting from federally-funded research. 41 examples listed to date. Please share and send ideas!
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
h/t @carlosbrody.bsky.social
Episode 7 is now available wherever you get your pods !
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That’s right. 🇺🇦
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Reminder there will be a @standupforscience.bsky.social rally in Indianapolis on March 7 from 12-2 on the South Lawn of the Statehouse
Come join others to celebrate science
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Be there or Be square!!!
#HoosierSky
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Hey #HoosierSky
This one worth listening (and not just because I am the host)
We will drop an episode every Friday morning for your commute discussing health policy from the legislative session and making it not boring
remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
I’m going to say something historians rarely say.
We haven’t been here before.
We haven’t had a near-authoritarian takeover of our government.
Admittedly, we don’t know what comes next.
There’s a wide array of options.
But know that in the US, this is new ground. And none of this is normal.
The faster technology in general and AI in particular progresses, the more I find myself moving toward Luddism. It's not a tech problem, it's a human nature problem.
These decisions impact brain drain. This is why we can't have nice things, Indiana. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
ACRL News, I beg of you, talk about book bans based on discrimination against Black and LGBTQ+ people, and the rise in antisemitism and islamophobia. It is like pulling teeth to get most of my academic library colleagues to acknowledge anything besides "AI" right now and you are not helping 🫠
Like any other tool in human hands, just depends on who controls and wields it : /
Morning shower thought: how can we expect to make AI applications that are not racist/misogynistic/homophobic when, even with hundreds of thousands of years of practice, we still can't get it right with analog human personalities?
It would be great if absolutely everybody can help this story go viral, and get higher-level media attention, to contribute to the social and legal utter annihilation of every cop, judge, and politician involved.
I had the opportunity to meet Judy Heumann at a Disability History Conference a few years ago. She's a bona fide bad ass. Looking forward to reading her book.
So many librarians and information professionals seem to be worried about how applying AI technology to published texts could be a violation of copyright when it ain't their turn to give a f*ck. Also, no one knows because copyright case law is stuck in the 20th century
R.I.P. Pee-wee. Forever the loner.
Well, here goes nothing. Feels like Twitter when I joined back in 2012, but even more desolate. Also on Mastodon at @bpieczko@digipres.club
