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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Charles Logan
“I’m working with a librarian to develop a module for undergraduates about conducting research, and I’m once again grateful for this resource from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @nannainie.bsky.social:” evidence ↗
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Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru Hypervisible Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Frank Pasquale Charles Logan Jeffrey Vagle +3

“I’m working with a librarian to develop a module for undergraduates about conducting research, and I’m once again grateful for this resource from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @nannainie.bsky.social:”

“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…”

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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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5 experts · 6 posts · 1d ago
Hypervisible Christopher Mims Tim Carmody Neil Turkewitz Amy Hoy
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“as somebody who used to work building custom software for normal small-time local business owners, 100% this they’d have “an idea” and it would be, like, one sentence. that’s it.” evidence ↗
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Hypervisible : Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but t…
Tim Carmody: Also the AI agents on the market (even/especially Muse, the new popular agent for nontechnical people) are too powerful, suck up too much data, and have too lax permissions for regular folks who do…
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4 experts · 15 posts · 6d ago
Olivia Guest Hypervisible Luke Stark VE, cybersocial occult investigator
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“These people are cranky to the core. On top of despising actual academics and knowledge production, they have a severe attachment to terrible models of the world where they sketch out totally unhin…” evidence ↗
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VE, cybersocial occult investigator: One of my long-standing complaints with the pro-AI world is how their complaint that anti-AI people and the left "need better critics" is clearly a reflection of themselves not having read the actu…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: It's way easier to shadowbox with a guy you made up in your head than to do the reading and engage with it honestly, but you do you.
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4 experts · 15 posts · 12d ago
Hypervisible e.w. niedermeyer tweety fish Pavel
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“seems like a natural result of a "product development process" that amounts to stacking up an ever-bigger pile of "intelligence" rather than working towards solutions to specific problems I think L…” evidence ↗
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tweety fish: instead having a fairly strong philosophical commitment to the idea that things like harnesses and workflows are basically half-measures that should not be necessary in the near future where AGI ju…
tweety fish: this from @ftrain.com is terrific, unsurprisingly, and I think this sentence actually understates the issue; it's not just that the big labs are in a hurry, it's that they don't see producing usefu…
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3 experts · 15 posts · 17d ago
Hypervisible VE, cybersocial occult investigator tweety fish
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“It seems pretty clear that the technologists at the foundation labs are not experts at computer science and software engineering generally but have specialist expertise in only one very narrow aspe…” evidence ↗
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VE, cybersocial occult investigator: The “AI copies itself to another computer” meme and the “recursive self improvement” meme are both ideas originating in science fiction, but which sound technically plausible enough due to the way …
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: It seems pretty clear that the technologists at the foundation labs are not experts at computer science and software engineering generally but have specialist expertise in only one very narrow aspe…
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