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Miriam Posner
Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out from Yale UP in fall 2026. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
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Waiting for AGI | AI & SOCIETY | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com
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“decisions with lasting social consequences are attached to a future moment when the technology is assumed to have revealed its true form, rather than addressed in the present in which it already operates. […] it defers responsibility by attaching accountability to a moment th…
Coming tomorrow to Canvas, if your university subscribes at the Canvas Next tier (IDK what that is either) and your IT department enables "Ignite AI." community.instructure.com/en/discussio...
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Something I would find useful would be an undergrad-friendly history of AI, from perceptron to transformer, explaining the rise of different ideas, the “AI winter,” etc. I know of encyclopedia articles that don’t quite do that and books that tell the story at length, but I need a v concise version.
I actually pay to use a search engine that lets me turn off AI overviews and penalizes AI-likely search results because I find Google AI overviews absolutely infuriating.
“…I see, so you won’t use ChatGPT because you love to write?” *laughing* “Oh God no, it’s the fucking worst.”
Interesting AI-assisted sales pitch: an offer to write a Wikipedia article about me. This must be really common, but it’s the first time I’ve gotten one.