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Miguel Carvalhais

@carvalhais.org

Design, music, art + computation. Professor at fba.up.pt; also active at @cronicaelectronica.org, http://at-c.org and @xCoAx.org. Author of Art and Computation (V2_) and Artificial Aesthetics (U.Porto). carvalhais.org

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him)@gamingthepast.bsky.social · 2d ago

No one interested in education, in humanities, in what constitutes knowledge, in true collective learning in societies and critical (as in critical thinking critical) of LLM AI in those systems and its impact should skip this article by Ishani Ray and @olivia.science Really. It's that important! 1/

Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy

Critical discourse on large language models (LLMs) has bifurcated between epistemic dismissal that invokes some form of the stochastic parrot metaphor to puncture hype, and pragmatic accommodation tha...

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Miguel Carvalhais@carvalhais.org · last wk.

New essay out, "As peças que não se encontram" (the pieces that can't be found), commissioned by Óscar Silva and André Barata for the book “As Peças Que — Ensaios Sobre”, part of a project inspired on Henri Lefebvre's book. The book is published by www.terceirapessoa.pt

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · last wk.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
Yan Basque@yanbasque.com · 2w ago

Love this new metaphor for AI. It’s basically a katamari. 😅 (Read the full thread)

Katamari Damacy: Rolling Up the City

Alt: Katamari Damacy: Rolling Up the City

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Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2w ago

The shape of this discourse is equal parts fascinating and infuriating. I'm thinking today of the term "AI" as mushing together a wide range of products and services in an enormous, greasy, sticky ball, rolling and bouncing its way through our landscape. >>

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3w ago

Can we start adding declarations of “no AI use” to published articles. I would want to know if what I am reading is slop, in part or in whole. Just saw a new paper cite me in odd ways that make no sense, unless some LLM use. But how can I distinguish sloppiness & misunderstanding from AI slop?

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 4w ago

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it a modest 10% productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1000% productivity gain." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

AI Economics for Dummies

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

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kottke.org@kottke.org · 4w ago

The Resonant Computing Manifesto. “We can now build technology that adaptively shapes itself in service of our individual and collective aspirations. We can build resonant environments that bring out the best in every human who inhabits them.” [resonantcomputing.org]

The Resonant Computing Manifesto

Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

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Miguel Carvalhais@carvalhais.org · 2mo ago

Last Friday I was invited to talk at the Breaking the Code conference in Porto. My talk, “Searching the Unpredictable, Coding the Break: Art, Computation, the Rift” was illustrated with some works from recent years such as these videos with @visiophone.bsky.social (whom I also thank for the photos).

Miguel Carvalhais talking on a conference in front of an LCD screen displaying a video of a live performance with Pedro Tudela and Rodrigo CarvalhoBildBild
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2mo ago

> frictionless technology blocks the user from learning [e.g.] mentally modelling what the teacher may be asking [&] reading materials and digesting them. And worse still, the design of these technologies is addictive through weaponisation of the Eliza [&] Barnum-Forer effect[s]

Models

Extract:Models in cognitive and related sciences are part of an overarching methodology, computational or broadly formal modelling, that aims to test, refine, and showcase our understandings of brain,...

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Claes Holtzmann@claeshs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews. Seems significant. "A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate 'independent, new, and substantive statements' by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites" the-decoder

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.

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