@nerd_sighted

maker of soft blinky things, aspirational cordwain, non-human primate enthusiast, AI apocalypse prevention operative

 Toronto / Kingston
Joined December 2016
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fleeing this hellhole. find me on bluesky.
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Friends are always asking me "should I be afraid of AI yet?" Here's my answer: ecampusontario.pressbooks.pu…

What are Large Language Models Made of? – Leading the Way: Envisioning the Future of Higher...

Envisioning Higher Education

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Used ChatGPT to write a grad school networking email to rip apart in a writing exercise for my students, and it produced exactly the kind of form letter I get hundreds of. A couple hours later one such letter showed up in my inbox and more than half was word for word identical.
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Naheed Dosani@NaheedD27 Mar 2023
Retweet this if you think the Ontario government should immediately reverse their cuts to healthcare for uninsured people. #Healthcare4All
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Arvind Narayanan
@random_walker20 Mar 2023
OpenAI may have tested GPT-4 on the training data: we found slam-dunk evidence that it memorizes coding problems that it's seen. Besides, exams don't tell us about real-world utility: It’s not like a lawyer’s job is to answer bar exam questions all day. aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/gp…
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Boring take: the main problem with the Chomsky ChatGPT opinion piece is that it’s so boring.
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LOL sob
Meredith Whittaker
@mer__edith22 Feb 2023
And just like that, the hypothetical socially beneficial sci-fi use cases, so central to AI boosters' marketing, dissolve into air, leaving only the imperatives of capital.
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Canadian police used deadly force at record rates in 2022, new research finds

Sixty-nine people were killed by police in Canada last year, a record that continues a sharply rising trend in recent years, according to new research by the Tracking Injustice project.

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So happy to see this much needed resource launch! Thanks to Rohan Khan and @douglasmartin for doing the heavy lifting from @QueensComputing.
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Should I title my grant application What’s the DL on DL?
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I’m re-reading fucking Benjamin because of an AI project. Walter, not Ruha.
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We must work together to ensure ALL Ontarians have access to accessible, equitable, and PUBLIC health care! Join me in signing this petition to STOP FORD'S PLAN TO PRIVATIZE: jillandrewmpp.ca/stop_privat… #ONPoli
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1998 me, a computer science major who read Barthes and Beaudrillard for fun, would be pretty amazed to find out how it all turned out.
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HPS and STS folks: apply to present at CSHPS this May in Toronto. Hasok Chang is the keynote! Deadline January 20. yorku.ca/cshps1/meeting.html
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New Report Released: Ontario Deaths in Custody on the Rise  - CCLA

Despite a declining provincial custody population, deaths in custody in Ontario are increasing at an alarming rate.  CCLA has sent a letter to the Solicitor General of Ontario urging immediate action...

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Andy Baio@waxpancake22 Oct 2022
The Stable Diffusion Discord has a channel devoted to spectacular failures and it’s full of gems
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Big Data & Society@BigDataSoc21 Oct 2022
In this great new article, @farbandish and Jeanie Austin audit the HRT Transgender Dataset and propose the concept of "mess" to understand the affective and emotional dimensions of auditing algorithmic systems Check it out: buff.ly/3Tgglj8
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Truly a thread for our times. A whole class could be designed around it.
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