“This article ends with a good conclusion, but it is extremely misguided along the way. It is also a rich text for exploring how clear language helps make the point better. A thread: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... >>”
“This editor/author does the same “trick” as he writes: "Recently, the ability of large language models (LLMs) to predict protein structures and to accelerate the discovery of new materials has revolutionized both fields. New AI agents can now carry out many…”
“This does not follow. Computationalism does not even imply makeism. See 📝 link.springer.com/article/10.1... See 🧵 bsky.app/profile/iris...”
“One paper I thought a lot while writing was this by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social et al (linked in my piece; I recommend). There's a role for AI for "assessing whether something is computationally possible or not, in principle and in practice." link.springer.co…”
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Iris van Rooij: What, in your opinion, is the strongest anti-computationalist argument out there?
Iris van Rooij: Here, by 'computationalism' I mean the metatheoretical thesis that cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation. See eg link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Iris van Rooij: Was not rhetorical, but I wonder if question was understood? bsky.app/profile/iris...
“Yes, thank you for sharing the `German version! On @olivia.science ’s CAIL website there are also links to translations in Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, Italian, and Spanish. olivia.science/ai/#activism”
“All the critical AI stuff is here if useful olivia.science/ai 💞”
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Olivia Guest: There's no engineering reason for human shaped robots other than that one actually. And there's so many engineering reasons against. The sooner people realise it has always been true & sexist (oliv…
Olivia Guest: Also see: bsky.app/profile/oliv... 2/
Thomas Dietterich: My colleague Jonathan Hurst (at Agility Robotics) has a long list of reasons why humanoid robots make sense. For years he was opposed to humanoids, but he found that for lifting and carrying loads,…
“2/2 bsky.app/profile/oliv... pdf here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”
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Olivia Guest: New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM"…
Olivia Guest: Maybe many mid-career and above academics have my experience, and so can relate, but it never ever gets any less impressive, overwhelming, or old when a student appears our of nowhere (notice our g…
Olivia Guest: Anyway, back to the work itself (from the abstract): > Critical discourse on large language models (LLMs) has bifurcated between epistemic dismissal [...] and pragmatic accommodation that treats LL…
“It's so core to the technology that things like Pygmalion displacement (doi.org/10.31235/osf...), pretending the Turing test (olivia.science/turing/) did not contain gender, and much more, happen right under our noses. 3/n”
“3️⃣ for those who make excuses for AI, or stats in general, in "scientific settings" without any critical reflection, see the thread below and this manuscript: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... I might come back and add more later, but maybe this is enough for now. ☺…”
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Olivia Guest: I wrote a very short piece on models & modelling in part because we need to protect our scientific praxis damage caused by AI in terms of addictive frictionless thinking, esp since it harms society…
Olivia Guest: > [We need] to push back against correlationism[:] the idea that because things can appear similar that therefore their [other properties match. A] video of me may directly coincide with many of my…
Olivia Guest: > This becomes utterly damaging pedagogically when we assume the ‘output’ of an assignment, the essay or horrifically the grade, is the essence. The point is for students to engage with the subject…
“Not sure of you saw it, but this open letter may be of use/interest: openletter.earth/open-letter-...”
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Iris van Rooij: I am responsible for the academic skills line in our AI programme and I think part of the 26/27 curriculum needs to be to help students understand that all those “AI assistants” that publishers and…
Iris van Rooij: Sadly, we need to teach students now that, in contrast to computers >3 years ago, the current software is actively designed to offer them slop, desinformation, and deskilling. >>
Iris van Rooij: As if learning academic skills was not hard enough, it is now made actively harder by all the bloated “clippies”. Students need to learn and understand that part of growing to be an academic in the…
““Much like fascism generally, if left unchecked and unaddressed: AI is a totalising force that destroys people and planet from the inside out.” olivia.science/entryism/”
“managers or indeed uhhh editors in chief... context: olivia.science/entryism”
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Ben Williamson: The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds …
Ben Williamson: Here’s what I’m observing in AI papers: Title and abstract: these set the scene in academic jargon overdrive. You’ve never seen so much over-use of the word “epistemic”. AI-enhanced papers start ja…
Ben Williamson: Introduction. AI-supported papers frequently introduce themselves as a “conceptual synthesis.” It's like everyone is a poor synthetic theorist who only does conceptual work based on existing litera…
“"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves." open access archived…”
“Also it is consistent with false analogy, which assumes two things are similar (when they aren't) in deep ways and causes immense confusion if not detected in one's thinking. doi.org/10.1007/s421...”
“Protein folding is intractable in general, so the barrier cannot have been broken algorithmically in general. Where is the scam hidden? Either algorithms consume super-polynomial resources or they are simply not solving the problem reliably. There is no oth…”
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Iris van Rooij: Protein folding is intractable in general, so the barrier cannot have been broken algorithmically in general. Where is the scam hidden? Either algorithms consume super-polynomial resources or they …
Olivia Guest: Protein folding is intractable in general, so the barrier cannot have been broken algorithmically in general. Where is the scam hidden? Either algorithms consume super-polynomial resources or they …
Olivia Guest: CC @trantteam.bsky.social maybe of interest?
“"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves." open access archived…”
“As scientists ought to know, and editors in chief especially, LLMs and/or chatbots are not replacements for search engines — see e.g., work by @emilymbender.bsky.social and Chirag Shah, and many others. iai.tv/articles/all...”
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Iris van Rooij: “Used ChatGPT as my search engine” 👀 🫠 Editor-in-Chief of Science
Iris van Rooij: As scientists ought to know, and editors in chief especially, LLMs and/or chatbots are not replacements for search engines — see e.g., work by @emilymbender.bsky.social and Chirag Shah, and many ot…
Olivia Guest: “Used ChatGPT as my search engine” 👀 🫠 Editor-in-Chief of Science
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