Francis Hunger

@databasecultures@dair-community.social
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Artist Webpagehttps://www.irmielin.org
Teaching at AdBKHTTPS://www.generativemedia.net
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6948-4256
Dissertation "Form of the Database"http://databasecultures.irmielin.org/about-database-cultures/

My text "Pause Giant Anthropomorphizing Metaphors" published in the Critical AI Journal

"The reemergence of pseudoscienti[c discourses around 'AI' suggests using a terminology that combats retrograde biological essentialism. By conflating nodes within virtual software architectures, so-called convolutional neural networks, with biological neurons some computer scientists have fueled a surge of 'AI' hype playing into the narrative that human-like artifcial general intelligence (AGI) is near."

The exaggeration of the technological capacity to produce human-level intelligence relies heavily on unsubstantiated metaphors that involve anthropomorphization. This discourse analysis builds on John Fiske's concept of technostruggles, whereby technoscienti[c discourse exercises power by producing “a particular form of social knowledge.”

Our prompt this time: 🔥 Aflame🔥

Everything is on fire. But fire isn't just a force of destruction: it can also be a force of regeneration, illumination, and renewal.

Come create with us and imagine otherwise!

Reading Andreas Broeckmann’s Making of Les Immatériaux book and watching Tour de France https://meson.press/books/the-making-of-les-immateriaux/
The Making of Les Immatériaux › meson press

The Making of Les Immatériaux provides the first comprehensive account of the preparations of Les Immatériaux, detailing how the exhibition emerged from collaborations in such diverse fields as contemporary art, architecture, science, and network media.

AI-agents get office tasks wrong around 70 % of the time, according to researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Duke. They created a novel benchmark for evaluating AI-agents called TheAgentCompany.

https://the-agent-company.com/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI_risks #generativeAI

@hagen just DM me your email, happy to send it

Wikipedians on the front line of keeping AI nonsense from getting into articles have prepared a list of common catchphrases and signs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases

Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/AI catchphrases - Wikipedia

CfP für die 7. IASPM D-A-CH-Konferenz "Tuning the NOISE GATE. Politiken des Filterns, Selektierens und Verstärkens in populärer Musik" in Oldenburg vom 28-30.05.2026: https://www.iaspm-dach.net/blog/2025/6/21/cfp-7-iaspm-d-a-ch-konferenz-tuning-the-noise-gate-politiken-des-filterns-selektierens-und-verstrkens-in-populrer-musik-oldenburg-28-30052026-deadline-15082025
CfP: 7. IASPM D-A-CH-Konferenz: "Tuning the NOISE GATE. Politiken des Filterns, Selektierens und Verstärkens in populärer Musik" (Oldenburg, 28-30.05.2026) Deadline: 15.08.2025 — IASPM D-A-CH

Call for Papers 7. Konferenz IASPM – D-A-CH Tuning the NOISE GATE Politiken des Filterns, Selektierens und Verstärkens in populärer Musik Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg 28. - 30. Mai 2026 Deadline: 15.08.2025 Call for Papers [ PDF ] ( english version here ) (Die Verlinkungen im C

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*Character problems with LLM agents /chatbots as "workers" and "copilots"
@bruces reading this I wonder if I'm in the matrix and am actually an AI construct

@bruces

These "issues" are all phrased as if there is a person behind all that: behaviour, planning, reasoning, and so on, are no predicates you should seriously ascribe to a word repetition averaging algorithm.

@bruces do people not understand that “AI” today is just Markov probability chains filtered through a Bayesian to reduce its hundreds of responses down to the most probabilistic jumble of half formed words and symbols which scored highest in user feedback trials as to being the answer people most wanted to hear, not some form of truth or otherwise. It’s just math. The same math that’s been around for decades. Now… if you want to make a real AI, I know how to make an attractor basin but we gotta start the biggest dumpster fire in the history of the world to pull it off. Are you in?