maker of soft blinky things, aspirational cordwain, non-human primate enthusiast, AI apocalypse prevention operative
Toronto / Kingston
Joined December 2016
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catherine stinson retweeted
Retweet this if you think the Ontario government should immediately reverse their cuts to healthcare for uninsured people. #Healthcare4All
catherine stinson retweeted
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…
catherine stinson retweeted
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
catherine stinson retweeted
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
catherine stinson retweeted
Guerrilla satirists skewer Toronto mayor by turning urban decay into public art theguardian.com/world/2022/o…
catherine stinson retweeted
Instead of figuring out what we want, are recommenders changing us to be more predictable instead?
New by piece @LukeThorburn_ @acookiecrumbles and I on how to define, detect, and prevent "manipulation."
medium.com/understanding-rec…
catherine stinson retweeted
"The introduction of DALL-E has triggered an explosion of text-to-image generators. Google & Meta quickly revealed that they had each been developing similar systems, but said their models weren’t ready for the public."
washingtonpost.com/technolog… by @nitashatiku
catherine stinson retweeted
🚨JOB!🚨Hey are you into philosophy of AI/cogsci? Do you like memory? Well wouldn’t you know, I’m recruiting for a 2 yr postdoc in philosophy of AI & cogsci, to work with me on my FLF project, Episodic Memory: Uniquely Human? jobs.ac.uk/job/CTS776/post-d…
catherine stinson retweeted
This site let's you search the giant database behind image-making AI systems like Stable Diffusion. It's supposed to be for artists to see if their art is in the data, but it also shows the sheer volume of NSFW/toxic stuff that's behind these AI tools.
haveibeentrained.com
catherine stinson retweeted
🧵: I discovered this woman, who I call Loab, in April. The AI reproduced her more easily than most celebrities. Her presence is persistent, and she haunts every image she touches. CW: Take a seat. This is a true horror story, and veers sharply macabre.
ALT a portrait photo older white woman with long brown hair holding a misconfigured stuffed animal. she has very severe rosacea below her eyes, in the shape of triangles on her cheeks. she looks slightly 3d rendered. there is a lamp in the background.
ALT a variant of the woman from the first image on what appears to be an album cover with the word "Loab" on it. She appears to be holding flowers, leaves, or feathers of some kind, on a textured, green backdrop.
catherine stinson retweeted
there's been a lot of conversation around "Théâtre D’opéra Spatial", the AI-generated image that won a prize in Colorado recently, but what i'm interested in doing is looking at this piece and saying "if this is art, what is it doing"
so lets try! (cw racism in art)
ALT An AI-art generated image of a two figures standing in front of a glowing white orb filled with a city, the landscape around them composed of minnerets, abstract shapes suggesting marketplaces, and servants discussing matters which are impossible to make clear sense of.
catherine stinson retweeted
I have just filed a request for the Ontario Human Rights Commission to initiate a public interest inquiry into the dangers presented by a removal of Covid-19 protections.
A copy of my letter is below. 🧵
To file a similar request, contact [email protected]
1/19
catherine stinson retweeted
Calling all Cyclists! Join us in a unified ride for safe streets & justice for cyclists next Thurs! We ride together, for those targeted, harassed, assaulted & hit this past week by Toronto Police. Share widely #BikeTO & beyond welcome: fb.me/e/1BwDQpXNW
catherine stinson retweeted
Retweet if you agree that Ontario needs to end the wage suppression of nurses when hospital shutdowns are occurring due to a shortage of nurses. #RepealBill124
catherine stinson retweeted
Dozens of scientific fields that have adopted machine learning face a reproducibility crisis. At a Princeton workshop today, ten experts discuss how to find and fix ML flaws. We had to cap Zoom signups at 1,600, but we’ve added a livestream. Starting NOW:
youtube.com/watch?v=7Bxcz7Z_…
catherine stinson retweeted
So, ON university presidents.
There’s a strong scientific consensus for indoor masking.
Will you now demonstrate evidence-based policy-making—and reinstate mask mandates on university campuses—or will you (most of you) persist with your politically-based evidence ignoring?
catherine stinson retweeted
A broader call is coming soon, but I am currently looking to fill spots in the Politics and Activism sections of the pillar I oversee @XtraMagazine, which covers these topics as they pertain to queer and trans people and communities.
Writers can be based anywhere.
catherine stinson retweeted
I was just asked to be on The National to discuss Roe and abortion...and then I found out it would be a panel with a "pro-life/anti-abortion" voice. I am livid and sent this reply. I couldn't care less if this means I will not be asked back to the CBC. It needed to be said.
