are people already familiar with this story about hard-boiled eggs or did i just stumble upon an absolute gem of a cautionary tale about algorithmic perfection? (annals of the history of computing, january 1983, volume 5, issue 1)
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Geoff HingI thought this was helpful in understanding how #Black #political power in #Chicago isn’t monolithic. Also really interesting to think about traditional power of South vs. West Sides. https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2023/4/4/23670457/mayoral-race-brandon-johnson-black-political-leaders-city-council-politics-natalie-moore-column
my new response to all things big data, from a 1970 conference proceeding: "an accumulation of nonsense"
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)I see people asking: How else will we critically study GPT-4 etc then?
Don't. Opt out. Study something else.
GPT-4 should be assumed to be toxic trash until and unless #OpenAI is *open* about its training data, model architecture, etc.
I rather suspect that if we ever get that info, we will see that it is toxic trash. But in the meantime, without the info, we should just assume that it is.
To do otherwise is to be credulous, to serve corporate interests, and to set terrible precedent.
hypervisible"Health insurance companies have rejected medical claims for as long as they’ve been around. But a STAT investigation found artificial intelligence is now driving their denials to new heights in Medicare Advantage, the taxpayer-funded alternative to traditional Medicare that covers more than 31 million people." https://www.statnews.com/2023/03/13/medicare-advantage-plans-denial-artificial-intelligence/
I'm usually fairly opposed to the whole landscape of productivity hacks, but I'm a "one song on repeat per project" kind of person, and let me just say, I'm reworking a class paper from last fall for a thing, so I put on the song I wrote the paper to originally (a Brandi Carlile, thank goodness) and immediately got back into the zone.
Ethan Marcotte“In other words, chatbots that we easily confuse with humans are not just cute or unnerving. They sit on a bright line. Obscuring that line and blurring — bullshitting — what’s human and what’s not has the power to unravel society.” — https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html
i have maybe six or seven holds to pick up at the library tomorrow, so i just packed an empty tote bag into my backpack. proud of myself, this is growth