Chapter 1 of my book describes AI as a broad range of heterogenous activities related to training computers to execute tasks. www.amazon.com/dp/082294905...

AAUP-NC Genuine Intelligence Project@ncaaupgip.bsky.social · 2d ago

When we talk about the harms of LLM chatbot products, boosters often point out that "AI" has important research uses. And that's true. But these boosters are often referring to types of machine learning that have absolutely nothing to do with LLM chatbot products. substack.com/home/post/p-...

My handsome boy who lived in a kennel for over 400 days getting to run free. Yes I’ve been crying about it all day why do you ask

The Metallica music in this cooking video really needs to be analyzed. www.youtube.com/shorts/ZweOf...

My blueberry tart

YouTube video by L'Architecte Pâtissier

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"Dear Dr Gallagher. I am pleased to read about your work in AREA OF SPECIALIZATION" They're not even trying anymore!

An AI generated review isn't the purpose of a review. It's a fact check. A review determines if is readable and a contribution, if it is meaningful. I don't eve know what it means to "perform better" on a review because that's not a thing.

Internet speeds.

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 3d ago

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

What I love about this job is the variety: In the morning I counsel students worried about keeping up with AI In the afternoon I meet collaborators so we can plan how to keep up with AI And then to relax, in the evening, I catch up on articles about human peer reviewers failing to keep up with AI

New blog post! "The rag and bone shop of artificial intelligence" meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-rag-an...

The rag and bone shop of artificial intelligence

One of my favorite poems is WB Yeats’ The Circus Animals’ Desertion. The last stanza always haunted me, creeping through my brain, lingering in gray-matter fissures.

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The US AI economy will collapse. Whether you like AI or not, the economic viability of frontier models is going to be collapsed.

Nathan Lambert@natolambert.bsky.social · 3d ago

Kimi K3.1 is announced as 3.1 Pro. The benchmark scores look to be clearly the strongest current open weight model, if the weights are released as they claim by November 4th. They are very impressive scores. www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3...

This is my second my controversial take: humanities research has never been so alive. It’s alive and well on YouTube and TikTok as video essays and video think pieces

Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 3d ago

Feels like every day we are hearing bad news about the humanities, but this stat is pretty shocking. Graduate research production has roughly declined by half in 10 years.

Every researcher in Writing Studies needs to read this. It should be required reading in our seminar and guide the field for good practices. dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

Troubling Questions: A Meta-Synthesis of Research Questions in Technical and Professional Communication | Proceedings of the 44th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

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My ankle cracks like popcorn

After reading a copy of my book, a participant said, "This was so ahead of it's time in 2022. It feels like the interviews were conducted yesterday." Both a compliment and I wish the book had come out 2 years ago.

Or maybe I'm wrong because she self-published a novel and is releasing it the same week as my book.

John Gallagher@johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 6d ago

Having actually lived with an alcoholic parent (and moved out of her house senior year of high school in the middle of January), I suggest trying to mend that relationship….for yourself as much as anything else.

New preprint! Computational Humanities needs falsifiable theories. With 25 Paris-based researchers who share the same ambitions for the field and had an exciting conversation. zenodo.org/records/2349...

Straight in my cultural analytics syllabus!

Olivier Morin@oliviermorin.bsky.social · 6d ago

New preprint! Computational Humanities needs falsifiable theories. With 25 Paris-based researchers who share the same ambitions for the field and had an exciting conversation. zenodo.org/records/2349...

Taylor swift is played on the golden oldies in my town.

Stone Cold Jane Austen@abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 5d ago

Just heard The White Stripes on the classic rock station

Six days until "AI Through the Experts’ Eyes: Communicating Complex Ideas" is out! Here is a free preview of the introduction and chapter 4, "Publication Processes and the Writing of AI." In this chapter, I talk about how the pressures to publish can lead to AI research communities...

I asked my students to not use AI within the genre of a thinkpiece, something like the Atlantic. It was like going back in time. There were awkward, elegant sentences with deep thoughtful ideas, tacitly humming below the surface of jotty prose. That's how burgeoning humans write.

Connor Ewing@cmewing.bsky.social · 6d ago

I feel seen

I had a roommate in 2013 who only did PHP. literally.

Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · 5d ago

Websites worldwide go dark as AI exposes security flaws

Also, about trees

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 5d ago

Abstractly, Seeing Like a State is about having more humility when deciding if you’ve missed something in your models

Writing is a heterogenous set of activities for which we have no operational definition.

maybe: leif weatherby@leifw.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ok but I think we can agree not *all* writing is thinking

"Careful reader" is the most valuable job skill in the AI era.

"The Toothpaste Tube Effect on Academic Publication" A short post about changing my approach to academic publishing because I'm tired of thinking about my ideas through the lens of publishing. meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-toothp...

The Toothpaste Tube Effect on Academic Publication

a short blog post about being an academic in a sea of AI publications

meresophistry.substack.com

I am working on a book for Writing Studies that makes a similar argument.

Jean Barré@jbarre.bsky.social · 6d ago

A slightly provocative one: we argue that computational humanities needs more falsifiable theories, not more tools. 👇👇

I'm on the other side of this one, actually. Style counts. If people can hear modelspeak in your prose, it weakens the effect in the same way overusing clichés weakens the effect. I don't care *how* you get there, but if an editor says "this doesn't sound fresh and authentic," you have a problem.

Chronicle of Higher Education@chronicle.com · 7d ago

Opinion: If AI is now part of academic writing, what should institutions actually evaluate? This essay argues that analytical writing should be judged by evidence, structure, argument, and accountability not by guesses about how each sentence was produced. https://chroni.cl/4eDRdjg

I submitted a paper in May, it didn't get taken up for review until September, and it's still out for review. Honestly, I wouldn't care except it's about one of the most interesting topics I work on and isn't about AI.

Having actually lived with an alcoholic parent (and moved out of her house senior year of high school in the middle of January), I suggest trying to mend that relationship….for yourself as much as anything else.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

Budgeting all of your money monthly is not "living paycheck to paycheck"

This is one of the most well observed posts I've read in YEARS.

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 7d ago

I would suggest that this is actually the same story, reported from two different perspectives.