A single data-center can consume up to 5 million gallons of drinking water per day, enough to supply thousands of households or farms .. 👉🏻 utulsa.edu/news/data-cent…

Time for a massive class action suit against OpenAI/Microsoft for scraping virtually the entirety of digitized culture. Not just NYTimes, etc.,but everyone and anyone who has posted anything in digital, scrapeable form. Take it over and make it a public utility. It's our culture.

Aran Nayebi I disagree with your characterisation of the argument. It is not an argument for AI being conscious. It is an argument that the brain processes underlying consciousness can be simulated. It presupposes computational functionalism rather than providing an argument for it.

Taylor & Francis, which owns Routledge, has sold access to its articles and publications to 'improve relevance and performance of AI systems'. Authors are given no option to opt out as of yet. What is going on?! thebookseller.com/news/academic-… #LLM The Bookseller

Growing up in Luton when the EDL were at their height, I remember how many white working-class people stood with Black and Asian working-class people against the racists that sought to divide us. The only way to defeat the far-right is through working-class unity.

All of you politicians and journalists that have been spent years demonising the Muslim community. This is on you. You emboldened the racists.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: The enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy.

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Friday reading: 'The impossibility of automating ambiguity' by Abeba Birhane. Thinking about machine learning systems as inherently conservative and unable to deal with the 'fluid, messy, and unpredictable nature of human behaviour' upaya.org/wp-content/upl… #ai #ml #academictwitter

Honestly, what is ChatGPT good for? This morning, I thought that I'd *finally found* a use: I asked it to organize my citations in alphabetical order. And it did. A perfect job! Except that it literally just made up 50 new citations! Non-existent papers like this one. 👇 WTF.

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I'm looking for international PhD students to join my lab at ANU, for a project on language model agents (LMAs) and society. It’s an exciting time to be working in normative philosophy of computing and sociotechnical AI safety, with some deep and fundamental questions being

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If you're a researcher who is not trained in computer science, how might you study machine learning? This paper by Louise Amoore Alex Campolo Benjamin Jacobsen Ludovico Rella proposes an alternative way of reading ML texts, paying attention to HOW we read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Today a senior exec from Taylor & Francis replied confirming that T&F journal articles *are* and will continue to be provided to its AI partners for model training, with *no opt-out*. Seems all the academic publishers are doing the same. Disappointing to say the least.

I'm preparing for a presentation at the 'Humans-Machines-Environments' conference in Graz. I'll be critiquing the term 'copilot' in relation to AI. Like this article in MIT Technology Review on 'users', it's interesting that 'copilots' were once just 'AI Bots': technologyreview.com/2024/04/19/109…

AI is producing a generation of students who are not just intellectually but *emotionally* dependent on it for even the simplest assignments. They don’t trust their own minds; they’re terrified when asked to think for themselves. This is the world ed-tech is making!