Silke Hahn ♻️

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Tech journalist and editor at Springer Nature/ Spektrum (offshoot of Scientific American). Before: Heise.

Fond of ML, AI, human-machine relationship since 2019. Tech enthusiast with a curious mind. Eager to understand your perspective to improve mine 👁️

Background in ancient cultures and languages, lived in Vienna, Frankfurt and Rome. Cosmopolitan now based in Heidelberg, Germany

I like people who make others laugh, look and think more deeply. Fond of civilized exchange: That drove me here.

BasecampHeidelberg, Germany
Workwriting, editing, proofreading 🛠️
Tweetshttps://twitter.com/_SilkeHahn
Webhttps://www.heise.dev
Silke Hahn ♻️Feb 8, 2023
DrDFeb 8, 2023
For anyone interested in synthesis or electronic and computer music, take a look at Andrew Olney’s Computational Thinking through Modular Sound Synthesis, with examples operable in the browser. CC license too. https://olney.ai/ct-modular-book/ #synthesis #synthesizers #ModularSynth #ElectronicMusic #MusicEducation #Music
Welcome | Computational Thinking through Modular Sound Synthesis

This book presents computational thinking concepts and strategies in the context of modular sound synthesis.

Silke Hahn ♻️Feb 8, 2023
Mike FraserFeb 8, 2023
@jeff My value proposition for journalists to stay on Mastodon:
https://thecanadian.online/?p=167
Journalists, You’re Walking Away From A Gold Mine - The Canadian Online

UPDATED FEB 9, 2023: Added some great corroborating numbers from Martin Holland @[email protected] Let's time travel back to December, a time when Elon decided he didn't care for journalists anymore and laid down the ban hammer on a wide swath of the press corp. There were headlines (ironically) about the death of free speech on

The Canadian Online - Companion Blog to The Canadian.Social Mastodon instance
Silke Hahn ♻️Feb 8, 2023
Guy HoffmanFeb 6, 2023

With all of the GPT talk about "the death of writing", can anyone agree with me that we should not care?

http://write.guyhoffman.com/why-i-dont-care-if-students-use-gpt

#writing #gpt3 #ai #education #essay #westworld

Why I Don't Care if Students Use GPT

They can go ahead, use it to cheat on their essay. It won't do them much good. An Experiment Here's a recent experience I've had with ...

Some Words To Not
Silke Hahn ♻️Feb 8, 2023
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Feb 7, 2023

Strap in folks --- we have a blog post from @sundarpichai at @google about their response to #ChatGPT to unpack!

https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/

#MathyMath #AIHype

An important next step on our AI journey

Introducing Bard, Google's experimental conversational AI service powered by LaMDA — plus, new AI features in Search coming soon.

Google
Silke Hahn ♻️Feb 6, 2023

New AI Chatbots? Google's "Bard" is announced. Quora released "Poe" today. Anthropic made "Claude". "Sparrow" by #DeepMind is winging its way, I'm sure Meta will join the choir.

Some alternatives in Europe: "Lumi" by Jonas Andrulis' #AlephAlpha (multimodal: any combination of text + images as input), YouChat by Richard Socher - a German expat in the Valley. Andrulis & team however are here: Aleph is based, hosted, created in Germany (AI R&D). #ResponsibleAI #XAI #TAI

https://www.heise.de/news/Chatbot-Googles-Antwort-auf-ChatGPT-heisst-Bard-7486888.html

Bard: Googles Antwort auf OpenAIs Chatbot ChatGPT

Alphabet-CEO Sundar Pichai hat Googles Antwort auf ChatGPT angekündigt. Bard setzt auf dem Chatbot LaMDA auf und soll auch in die Suchmaschine Einzug halten.

heise online
Silke Hahn ♻️Feb 6, 2023
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Feb 6, 2023

"We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it." Excellent piece by @danmcquillan
https://www.danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.html

I suggest you read the whole thing, but some pull quotes:

"ChatGPT is a part of a reality distortion field that obscures the underlying extractivism and diverts us into asking the wrong questions and worrying about the wrong things."

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We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it.

Silke Hahn ♻️Feb 6, 2023
heise onlineFeb 5, 2023

Missing Link: Grassroot-KI – Afrikas Aufholjagd bei Künstlicher Intelligenz

Afrika will Künstliche Intelligenz in Eigenregie mitgestalten. Die westlichen KIs passen nicht zur Bevölkerung – sie basieren auf fremden Werten und Normen.

https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Missing-Link-Grassroot-KI-Afrikas-Aufholjagd-bei-Kuenstlicher-Intelligenz-7483386.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

#MissingLink #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Spracherkennung #news

Missing Link: Grassroot-KI – Afrikas Aufholjagd bei Künstlicher Intelligenz

Afrika will Künstliche Intelligenz in Eigenregie mitgestalten. Die westlichen KIs passen nicht zur Bevölkerung – sie basieren auf fremden Werten und Normen.

heise online
Silke Hahn ♻️Feb 6, 2023

#Africa wants its own #AI strategy: to avoid becoming a dumping ground for a technology dominated by the Global North and its values, local researchers are pushing.

In the race to catch up, they are betting on #grassroots AI.

#Technology #Sovereignty @heiseonline
–Article in German. A Summary🧵 sits here:

https://twitter.com/_SilkeHahn/status/1622265110239535105

https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Missing-Link-Grassroot-KI-Afrikas-Aufholjagd-bei-Kuenstlicher-Intelligenz-7483386.html

Silke Hahn on Twitter

“Afrika will eigene #KI-Strategie: um nicht Abladeplatz einer vom Globalen Norden und dessen Werten dominierten Technologie zu werden, drängen lokale Forscher. In der Aufholjagd setzen sie auf #Graswurzel-KI —Top-Artikel @heiseonline 🌍 #Tech #Sovereignty🧵https://t.co/jznERprxlv”

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Silke Hahn ♻️Feb 4, 2023
heise DeveloperFeb 4, 2023

2023, das Jahr der Musik-KI: Text-to-Audio und per Textsuche zum perfekten Song

Aus riesigen Musikarchiven mit Freitextsuche den passenden Sound finden, per Textprompt Tonspuren erzeugen – 2023 erlebt Musik- und Audio-KI einen Durchbruch.

https://www.heise.de/news/Cyanite-finde-den-perfekten-Song-Musik-Suchmaschine-erschliesst-Archive-mit-KI-7481092.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

#KünstlicheIntelligenz #MachineLearning #Musikindustrie #Musikstreaming #news

2023, das Jahr der Musik-KI: Text-to-Audio und per Textsuche zum perfekten Song

Aus riesigen Musikarchiven mit Freitextsuche den passenden Sound finden, per Textprompt Tonspuren erzeugen – 2023 erlebt Musik- und Audio-KI einen Durchbruch.

heise online
Silke Hahn ♻️Feb 4, 2023
Maria PopovaFeb 4, 2023

In the autumn of 1883, a paper in the nation's capital reported that "an Iowa woman has spent 7 years embroidering the solar system on a quilt."

Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college:
https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/ellen-harding-baker-solar-system-quilt/

Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876

A serenade to the universe in wool and silk.

The Marginalian