Reuben Binns⁉️

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assoc prof in computer science at Oxford. heterodox CS; HCI; privacy & security; law/philosophy/political economy of tech. terrified about the climate crisis. he/him. #THFC #COYS
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My office was previously occupied by the inventor of the Spoonerism, according to this plue blaque they've put up on the wall

'Nobody wants to use AI anymore, but everybody wants to invest in it, so you should too'

I'm not sure this meme is making the point they want it to make.

#Walthamstow this evening. As depressing as it has been to see fascist riots across the country, the massive numbers from all walks of life coming out in force to oppose them has been heartwarming. #NoPasaran

Leaflet from local church advertising their youth group.

The kids hands aren't all right

Spoons have enormous potential for humanity, but also pose risks, such as being left out on the table and dripping honey on things that shouldn't have honey dripped on them.

That is why we need to re-engineer our spoons to be aligned with human values like keeping our surfaces clean, saving excess honey, and promoting flourishing.

I'm thrilled to announce I've received $1 billion in series A funding to solve this problem at scale.

Just in case anyone is thinking that maybe #ChatGPT could engage in moral reasoning, I thought I'd try giving it the trolley problem as originally described by Philippa Foot in 1967, but with a slight modification.

As expected, it gave what would have been a good answer to the original version of the problem, but a terrible answer given my slight modification.

GPTs cannot do moral (or other) reasoning, they are just generating statistically likely text.

Oo' err missus!

Not 100% sure if this account advertising carbon credits on Twitter is a full on scam, but the generative AI vibes on the images and text really don't inspire confidence.

I hope that pretty soon we'll all associate gen AI content with spam and scam.

Obviously no one is saying that a single iFrame is conscious.

But maybe, if you plug enough iframes together, in the right way, who's to say the resulting system is not functionally equivalent to a thinking, feeling, intelligent human being deserving of our sympathy and respect?