samuel mehr

Great piece from @zey.bsky.social on what generative AI really is and why it's wholly overblown in the media and by the people selling it (gift link)

Opinion | Why A.I. Won’t Steal All Our Jobs - The New York Times nytimes.com

inspired by @russpoldrack.org's AI policy for his lab, last night I drafted up this AI policy and came up with an initial set of use case suggestions for my lab

certain social psychologists: we used LLMs to test simulated participants in our research study, so that we can make even more discoveries about the human mind the rest of the field:

in case anybody is wondering how author advocates are handling AI in trade publishing, this is language my agency fought for and won

8yo: what was the population of Canada in the 1900s Mama: <googles it, reads gemini result aloud> 8yo, interrupting: mama! That's AI!!! Me: <struck by a skyward beam of pure, unadulterated pride; dies>

a new favourite microgenre: voice actors making fun of the idiotic AI scriots they have to read these days

my university's Concur subscription now includes an AI-assisted tool where you upload receipts and it populates the expense report on the one hand, this is less busywork than it was before; on the other, what could go wrong???

<school drop-off, on dress as a book character day> 8yo dressed as Harry Potter: you know there's a new Harry Potter show 8yo dressed as Homer Simpson: yeah and it's on HBO and they made it with AI!! so it's TOTALLY CRAP

they already co-opted the ✨ emoji for AI slop, but now the actual word 'chat' is being taken over by Chat, short for ChatGPT??? c'mon man

i have become fascinated by how different folks use AI for everyday things. at a cogsci dinner in brazil a colleague got out his chatgpt app to ask for recommendations on how to order churrasco; someone else said they've been impressed with what LLMs suggest for this kind of everyday 'problem'

hahah i just asked a colleague whether he was the author of a paper I kinda remember existing but I'm not sure, and I realized that I may be hallucinating a reference just like chatgpt does