Hannu Toivonen

@HannuToivonen
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Possibly active here: @hannu-toivonen.bsky.social

AI and Computer Science 
Professor at University of Helsinki, Finland
. (A passive account.)
Occasional toots in Finnish: @HannuToivonen

Blue Sky@hannu-toivonen.bsky.social
Research interestArtificial Intelligence
Homepagehttp://www.cs.helsinki.fi/hannu.toivonen/
I'm not active here but might occasionally be found at BlueSky: @hannu-toivonen.bsky.social
I confess myself a bit baffled by people who act like "how to interact with ChatGPT" is a useful classroom skill. It's not a word processor or a spreadsheet; it doesn't have documented, well-defined, reproducible behaviors. No, it's not remotely analogous to a calculator. Calculators are built to be *right*, not to sound convincing. It's a bullshit fountain. Stop acting like you're a waterbender making emotive shapes by expressing your will in the medium of liquid bullshit. The lesson one needs about a bullshit fountain is *not to swim in it*.

Had trouble choosing a mastodon instance? I got GPT-3 to generate some new possibilities.

flounder.club
Members discuss all different forms of flounder, from deep-sea to land-based.

dinosaur.pocket
All messages must consist of the two letters 'D', for fear that the dinosaurs will eat people's pocketbooks.

frozen.forest
Users must provide a source of warmth in order to post.

https://www.aiweirdness.com/ai-designed-mastodon-communities/

AI-designed Mastodon communities

I've been using Mastodon as a social media platform for a few years, and one thing I like is how you can join themed communities. For example, you can join mastodon.gamedev.place if you want to hang out with people who build games, or oslo.town if you want

AI Weirdness
Got this ingenious email from Times Higher Education where they highlight, with self-critical metaphor, irony and wit, how competition for university rankings puts us under pressure from all sides and effectively reduces our freedom to operate in the most meaningful ways. #THE #universityrankings #canyoufeelthepressure

Finnish-speaking friends and followers: you may want to follow my Finnish account @HannuToivonen

It looks like I'll be more active there for now.

One thing that would be nice to see more exploration around is how to incorporate the growing fediverse with a resurgence of personal publishing, homebrew websites, blogs, journals and the like.

Rather than make this place more like Twitter or Facebook, what if we leaned into the slower pace and less distressing tone, and tried to make it more like the (old school) web—

Hello Mastodon! I’m a professor of #ComputerScience from the #UniversityOfHelsinki working on #AI and #creativity #introductions