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essay how to talk AI

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Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru Hypervisible Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Frank Pasquale Charles Logan Jeffrey Vagle +5

“For reasons mysterious to me, Will Stancil is continuing his crash out about language used to describe LLMs, moving on from raning about "stochastic parrots" to picking up on this piece that @nannainie.bsky.social and I published earlier this summer: button…”

“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”

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Emily M. Bender: So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>
Emily M. Bender: In some cases, no doubt, the speaker fully believes that autonomous thinking machines are among us. (Though I said "otherwise serious people" in the prev post, so.) >>
Emily M. Bender: In other cases, I suspect that people feel like they lack the expertise to call bullshit and are repeating what they hear others say. >>
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Ai parenting motherhood ollie fambot

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Hypervisible Charles Logan Jed Brown

““Apps including Ollie, Fambot, Ohai and Ava aim to function as household managers, and the majority of users so far are mothers, according to the chief executives of these start-ups.””

“Put another way: what are unmet personal and structural needs that caregivers are experiencing that make bots and agents so attractive? The article's web title is "Can A.I. Apps Be a Mom's Second Brain?", which raises a question: where we at, dads? Not prom…”

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Charles Logan: And it's always worth considering how technologies promise mothers they can save time when the reality is from the hype. See:
Charles Logan: The "unmet needs" frame is something I heard from @emilymbender.bsky.social in her conversation with @adambecker.bsky.social, and I think it's a helpful way to shift attention away from technosolut…
Charles Logan: Put another way: what are unmet personal and structural needs that caregivers are experiencing that make bots and agents so attractive? The article's web title is "Can A.I. Apps Be a Mom's Second B…
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angela zhou Suresh Venkatasubramanian Nick Diakopoulos Frank Pasquale Dare Obasanjo tante Charles Logan Oliver Lemon +2
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian: I know it's a trend to quit big tech and write a warning note. But this one from David Robinson is worth reading if only because he is much more careful in where he locates the concerns (about cult…
Gina Helfrich: It was going so well, until the final paragraph.
angela zhou: I know it's a trend to quit big tech and write a warning note. But this one from David Robinson is worth reading if only because he is much more careful in where he locates the concerns (about cult…
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Rogue, with Eryk Salvaggio | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan

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Eryk Salvaggio Charles Logan

“I appreciated this conversation between @melhogan.bsky.social and @eryk.bsky.social and Eryk's analysis of power and language, human-built AI systems, and why we should attend to the "system from nowhere" frame used by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to wash th…”

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Charles Logan: I doubly appreciated the conversation after participating in a 4S panel yesterday that included a presentation that lacked a similar analysis of power and instead argued we should respond to violen…
Charles Logan: I appreciated this conversation between @melhogan.bsky.social and @eryk.bsky.social and Eryk's analysis of power and language, human-built AI systems, and why we should attend to the "system from n…
Charles Logan: The presenter was joining us virtual and the mood/eye contact in the room was exactly that gif
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Olivia Guest: not sure what I think of him generally, but he does love his craft in all his retellings I've seen, so this is consistent regardless of also having needed money for huge debt etc) — it seems that l…
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