An incomplete list of people excluded from 'international' conferences that are in-person only and aren't streamed or recorded
- People with caring responsibilities
- People with disabilities
- People with health vulnerabilities
- People who don't fly in recognition of climate emergencies
- People who work for orgs with ethical no-fly policies
- People who have their travel disrupted due to climate chaos
- People who only engage with fully open access scholarship (if you have to travel+pay to watch a talk, it's not at all open access, even if a related publication is)
- People who can't leave their country for fear of not being let back in
- People who can't get visas
- Unfunded/underfunded people
- People with unfavourable exchange rates
- People who have limited holidays off work
- People who can't afford it
- etc..

I guess you end up with rooms mostly of academics with travel budgets who are too senior to really do research any more, and research students with stipends. That's fine but the perspectives can feel limited, ungrounded and underinformed.. with a huge environmental cost.

Ongoing reflection on some economic inconsistencies between the semiconductor industry and genAI development.

Hope some of you will find it interesting (I'm trying to write shorter articles).

https://gauthierroussilhe.com/en/articles/how-to-use-computing-power-faster

How tech companies are pushing us to use AI ?

On the occasion of the publication of our scientific paper, we share with you an English translation of our study that analyzes the stratagems exploited in interfaces to encourage or force us to use AI, whether you want it or not.

→ https://limitesnumeriques.fr/travaux-productions/ai-forcing/en

#AIresearch #AI

Reminder of what your favorite now so-called tech critic who was in the "singularity summit" mix for years, and was defending his advisor, race scientist Steven Pinker, was saying to me when I raised these issues.

First, he said I "can't call everything I disagree with eugenics."

Then, he attacked me, unsummoned, when I came to the defense of my colleague at UCLA who were being smeared by Judea Pearl for being against genocide.