Jeffrey M. Binder

@jmbinder
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Author of Language and the Rise of the Algorithm (U. of Chicago Press, Nov 2022). Previously: postdoc at Penn State University's Center for Humanities and Information. Now: data security R&D. Always: writer, intellectual historian, maker of weird computer stuff. PhD from CUNY. Opinions my own.
Websitehttp://jeffreymbinder.net

I have a new piece out in LA Review of Books about #ChatGPT, authenticity, and a #poetry generating algorithm from the 1670s. #AI #histodons

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-artifice-of-ai-why-machine-generated-text-seems-so-fake/

Los Angeles Review of Books

Los Angeles Review of Books
Last year I gave a talk arguing that standardized testing should be seen as a part of the historical lineage of #AI. Here it’s more obvious than ever. #GPT4 #histstm

Twitter's algorithm did an injustice by not showing anyone this dank #18thCentury #philosophy #meme I made.

#Condillac #GeorgeBerkeley #writing

Currently spinning #music #PostPunk #Pylon
Sun Ra presents The Qualities - It's Christmas Time (1960)

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Wow, it's true. #TwitterPurge

Currently droning to: Keiji Haino - My Lord Music, I Most Humbly Beg Your Indulgence in the Hope That You Will Do Me the Honour of Permitting This Seed Called Keiji Haino to Be Planted Within You

#music #noise #drone #HurdyGurdy

Wow, it is REALLY doubling down on this. And yet it seems to be incapable of taking the final step and saying π = 1. #math #crackpots #ChatGPT

At long last, it's been solved! #ChatGPT #math #geometry

(For those who don't know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_circle)

Squaring the circle - Wikipedia