New post: those wanting Jason Arday to face 'justice' of some kind are not going to get what they want willd10.substack.com/p/how-the-ja...
How the Jason Arday affair will fizzle out
Truth is a social system. Sorry.
willd10.substack.com
Jack Stilgoe
@jackstilgoe.bsky.social
Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Today is Venn Day, in celebration of the mathematician John Venn, born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn Diagram.
@norton.bsky.social. you're needed
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2mo ago“.. He said cars were once portrayed as killing children, but the world changed its norms by having sidewalks and crosswalks .. “When I was growing up, I used to play in the streets,” Huang said. “When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now.” apnews.com/article/nvid...
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
Also important to remember quite how influential this guy's report on Situational Awareness was in AI circles last year.
Katie Martin@katie0martin.ft.com · 5d ago“Obviously not blowing up is sort of like task number one and two, or whatever” There must be a way to power the grid with Schadenfreude, the force is so strong with this one www.ft.com/content/620b...
My boiling hot take on this is that, if tech companies are going to fund this kind of research (looking at Schmidt too), then the money needs to be given *no strings* to an independent arm's length research body, pooled with other funding, and treated as a donation not as direct funding.
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 5d agoAnthropic AI research fund offers $5m - $30m for social science research on themes of AI impact on workers; transition initiatives; income support; building worker stakes; and wider evidence on public investments. Total fund of $200m available www.anthropic.com/news/economi...
Every. Country. "A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools." Another reason not to use AI. Don't be this State Department guy.
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
theguardian.com
Earlier today, #AssemblyTransport Chair @carolinerussell.bsky.social spoke with BBC Radio London about the prospect of driverless taxis in London, following the Committee investigation. Find out more about the investigation here: www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...
This is lovely and it is a great piece of writing.
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 6d agoI know people like to take the p*ss out of Adrian but this is a great piece of writing.
Strong camera work. Well done for holding still and not saying "fucking hell", in Greenlandic.
Giant iceberg turns over near Greenland's coast
Video captured by a passerby showed the moment the iceberg collapsed, creating a big wave.
bbc.co.uk
It's nuts that when you search a pdf for a word, it lists the appearances by how OFTEN it's used on a page, rather than the pages in order. Nuts.
Yesterday I learned that during appeasement French journalists mockingly called Chamberlain Monseur J'aime Berlin, which is exceptional work. Well done France.
This week is a reversal: @adambecker.bsky.social is interviewed by Jack Stilgoe, professor of science and technology studies at University College London. #datmpodcast #ai #MoreEverythingForever #author #london #interview
The special effects on this were revolutionary at the time. And the close harmony is banging.
Why Don't YouTube?@whydontyoutube.bsky.social · last wk.HOW HAS THIS BEEN ON YOUTUBE FOR THREE MONTHS AND NOBODY THOUGHT TO TELL US, IT'S BEEN WDYT?'S HOLY GRAIL FOR YEARS www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGPA...
Excellent piece. Self-fulfilling prophecies have been central to the sociology of expectations in science and technology. Labour market choices about training provide early signals.
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · last wk.Fascinating column by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com on 'anticipatory dread':
NEW: A glimpse at how AI image generators are used. Researchers set up a fake image editor on Hugging Face and within a week received 1,000 prompts. 73% of them were sexual and 83% of those were asking for people (women) to be “undressed”. Around 6% of the sexual requests also targeted minors
Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem
Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.
wired.com
Breathtaking irresponsibility, and yet typical of the company’s approach. I wrote this a decade ago: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... Tesla’s failure to learn since looks deliberate
Machine Learning, Social Learning and the Governance of Self-Driving Cars
Self-driving cars, a quintessentially ‘smart’ technology, are not born smart. The algorithms that control their movements are learning as the technology emerges
papers.ssrn.com
e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · last wk.insider lawsuit alleges Tesla's Houston robotaxi fleet was "rolling hazards on public streets" outrageous revelations, it's shocking there haven't been more crashes www.automotiveworld.com/news/new-law...
regular reminder to read @wired.com's incredible piece about the 2018 Uber AV crash that killed Elaine Herzberg www.wired.com/story/uber-s...
‘I’m the Operator’: The Aftermath of a Self-Driving Tragedy
In 2018, an Uber autonomous vehicle fatally struck a pedestrian. In a WIRED exclusive, the human behind the wheel finally speaks.
wired.com
As a historian of Jodrell Bank, I agree! And the reason it is important is that it has been made to mean different things to different people at different times. Who's up for a mega thread on how and why? (I'm off for lunch now, but I'll do it after. I'll need the energy...)
John Grindrod@grindrod.bsky.social · last wk.Really one of the most important postwar sites in Britain
Should we get out of our buckets, or at least pasteurise them? @richardaljones.bsky.social on pure and applied science softmachines.org?p=3328
Moving beyond the dichotomy between pure and applied science – Soft Machines, by Richard Jones
softmachines.org
I've written a few books and checked all the quotes (deleting some bangers because I doubted their authenticity) and if you're letting fabricated ones slip through then you're cutting corners in an egregious way. It is not the copy-editor's job to check every source, it's yours. Do the damn work
The sound of tracked changes to next year's syllabus being rejected
Really enjoyed The Odyssey, but I wished they'd stayed true to the original
Well done to @demos-uk.bsky.social for a report exploring the growing issues of the information well that AI chatbots draw upon being poisoned by state actors to push their false narratives forward demos.co.uk/research/geo...
GEO for Geopolitics: What happens when AI and information warfare collide
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.
demos.co.uk
Fond memories of DIUS
Bob Melling@bobmelling.bsky.social · last wk.Enjoyed this from @stephenkb.bsky.social but this did leave me wondering if HE is the neglected relation, what is FE? The friend your parents met on holiday who inexplicably sends your child a birthday card. www.ft.com/content/7007... via @FT
