Soma is the best - also smuggling point 3 in there

So so excited to be part of this new workshop series from the Pulitzer Center about AI: over the next 2 years we will train 1,000 reporters and editors on AI. Workshops are free and largely online!

I'm so thrilled to announce the launch of The AI Spotlight Series, a program I designed with the Pulitzer Center to train 1,000 journalists on AI reporting over the next two years. All trainings will be FREE & mostly virtual. Register now to join us! pulitzercenter.org/focus-areas/in…

I'm ecstatic to share that preorders are now open for the AI Snake Oil book! The book will be released on September 24, 2024.

Arvind Narayanan and I have been working on this for the past two years, and we can't wait to share it with the world.

Preorder: princeton.press/awecv19z

10 minutes! We had shirts before we had an emergency alert

thank you Datawrapper 🥹🥹

BREAKING:

According to FOIA docs obtained by Hell Gate *subscribe today!*, the surveillance tech previewed by Mayor Eric Adams last week had a 25% (!!!) alarm rate during a pilot in the Bronx, with 85% of those yielding false positives.

Basically, it's useless.

hellgatenyc.com/nyc-ai-weapons…

MORE THAN A GLITCH is out in paperback! Join me for an event this month or next!

There's a lot that's alarming in this article, but perhaps the most alarming part is the NYC spokesperson assering that the problem can be fixed via upgrades:

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thecity.nyc/2024/03/29/ai-…

This is an bananas NYC story courtesy of our friends The Markup: An AI chatbot touted by City Hall keeps telling biz people to break the law

Can you take workers tips? Can you discriminate? See what chatbot says 👇

thecity.nyc/2024/03/29/ai-…

Someone already updated Dali's photo on VesselFinder

Finally launched my 'chopped cheese' being the NYC sandwich of choice is not a real thing, was never a real thing, and was basically a 2010s-era psyop to convince people this was somehow always a thing during a freakout over who is a 'real New Yorker' take
hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-pres…

I really did not expect the level of interest in this Google Doc and couldn't figure out how to get into my personal Wordpress blog to publish it. Here's a modified version of the doc (link fixed): docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

i had never seen dasher! this is wild youtube.com/watch?v=nr3s46…

Visualizing chatgpt completion probabilities (with mild temperature)

Everything Felix says is golden, but I've never seen more ink spilled on a complete misreading of what Google Trends data means, when linking to *a source that actually explains it*

100 is not 'the hottest of the hot topics,' it just the most popular it's been in that timeframe

Editorial covering our work: “All members of the scientific community must view AI use not as inevitable for any particular task, nor as a panacea, but rather as a choice with risks and benefits that must be carefully weighed.” nature.com/articles/d4158… 2/