Mastodawn

#introduction I'm a researcher in the field of AI, working particularly on the environmental impacts of AI, but also agentic AI and applied machine learning.

I have mostly moved away from social media, but haven't been able to get off of LinkedIn, which is more or less required ("highly encouraged") for my job.

LinkedIn is a very strange jungle of AI-slop, regular slop, and sometimes useful tidbits and news. This Mastodon-account is an attempt at moving communication to a better platform.

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Mario Angst 5d ago

@ejhusom Hi and welcome :)!
Great research topic, thank you for doing the work on that. To me, I've come down to being mostly furious at the indirect impacts of the GenAI hype in terms of misallocation of resources, which we could really need somewhere else right now... think very much proven technologies for climate change mitigation.
I feel you on the LinkedIn bit and you characterize its contents in a way I can definitely recognize - I'd also add that the site itself is just a maddening piece of web design to me, how cluttered can you make something 🤣? Still, also for me, for some of the very local research community and some fields, it is just (also maddeningly) the only place to get some news on what people are doing or excited about.

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Erik Johannes Husom

@mario_angst_sci Thanks a lot :D

Strong agree on the misallocation of resources!

And regarding LinkedIn: Yes, it's super-cluttered, and a single browser tab with LinkedIn somehow uses 900MB of RAM on my computer!? I'm amazed at what the software they manage to produce, and not in a good way ;P