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

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???

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

lol chatgpt is utterly confused by this phenomenon of "music"