A Bloomberg investigation found that the best-known generative AI tool systematically produces biases that disadvantage groups based on their names. Using the technology for recruiting & hiring “poses a serious risk for automated discrimination at scale.” bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

COVID-19 will never be like the Flu. Never. At least not for the brain. I would love to be wrong; please prove me wrong with evidence and real science! It is quite simple. #SARSCoV2 can access the brain using several different mechanisms that Influenza cannot. A: Viral

The magic of the mundane Pioneering sociologist Erving Goffman realised that every action is deeply revealing of the social norms by which we live aeon.co/essays/pioneer…

Great essay on journalism... "I didn’t say that journalists are anti-intellectual. I said they were. Now they’re something else: pseudo-intellectual. And that is much worse." persuasion.community/p/how-pseudo-i…

'The Invisible', female workers of London series by contemporary artist Caroline Walker #WomensArt

Google Scholar has been flooded with research papers containing AI-generated text. Look up phrases like "An an AI langauge model," "I don't have access to real-time data," "As of my last knowledge update"... and you will see hundreds of papers with text generated by ChatGPT.

I’m in Portland, OR. They’ve got this homeless encampment that’s sanctioned by the city. These things are nicer than tents and the whole thing is cleaner and safer than other encampments. But it also manages to be sad and disturbing in its own way. . .

And think of all the "scholars" who used it but were at least smart enough to, you know, delete these telltale signs of autogenerated text before submission🙃🙃🙃

A tattoo taking advantage of human anatomy x.com/i/status/17751…

Não sei se é a melhor, mas é das minhas preferidas.

AI’s “infinite iterations are pure veneer: bloodless and gutless, serviceable furniture made of the deforested expanse of human experience,” writes novelist @rachelkhong. “A large language model doesn’t require experience, because it has consumed ours.” theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

#UseYourVote #VoteForEurope

No. This is not acceptable. The methods section is the single most important part of a scientific paper. If those details are relegated to supplementary materials, then it's not a scientific paper in a scientific journal.

Impressionante, este grito de revolta, desesperado de alguém que sofre na pele os efeitos do discurso xenófobo anti-imigração. “Eu faço tudo direitinho!”, repete.

Se votas nesta merda, só mereces merda na tua vida

30 July 1925 | Jewish boy of Polish origin, Jan Jacob Altbaum, was born in Antwerp. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 18 August 1942. He did not survive.

Google's NotebookLM is the current best "wow this is amazing & useful" demo of AI Here I gave it the entire text of my book, it turned it into a podcast, a study guide, FAQ, timeline & quite accurate chat Listen to the first few minutes of the "podcast." Seriously, just listen.

Another ‘good’ example of the McDonaldization of qualitative research !