damn, those old Scrooge comics really had everything

"Putting the You in CPU" - a 16,000 word dive into how CPUs run programs, is out! I'm 17 and worked with Hack Club to write the guide I wish I had. it spiraled from a rabbit hole into a mini-book with kinda adorable illustrations. I hope you love it!👇cpu.land

Much of the discourse about the impending rise of artificial general intelligence these days sounds to me like people earnestly claiming that, since they have “legs”, surely tables are soon going to walk. inframethodology.cbs.dk/?p=6447

New at The Watch: I interview Peter Stout, the head of the Houston Forensic Science Center, a visionary crime lab that could change how expert testimony is used in court. Link, and a few excerpts, follow.

A baby Pallas cat was born in the Helsinki Zoo and you need to look at him. LOOK AT HIM

inframethodology.cbs.dk/?p=6447

I love this! ChatGPT is an “electronic articulator.” Yep. “Articulator” describes what it does without making it sound sentient.

"We urge policymakers to instead draw on solid scholarship that investigates the harms and risks of AI—and the harms caused by delegating authority to automated systems" w/Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) in Scientificamerican scientificamerican.com/article/we-nee…

This reinforces my view that the main thing I have learned from the LLM bonanza these last few years is that people are really bad at choosing benchmarks

Wise words for social media

More evidence that AI detection tools should be avoided and biased! themarkup.org/machine-learni…

my mentees, who are critically investigating harms from wellness apps and positive psychology are looking for literature that critiques positive psychology. pls share if you know any

Fantastic.

On Monday, September 11, from 11:30 to 13:00 Jan Krämer (Jan Krämer) and Lilian Löwenau will present their tutorial "Needs beyond Chat-GPT: Teaching the Concepts of Knowledge Representation by Filling a Void" at #ICCS 2023 in Berlin. 2/3

An important reminder that companies that provide open source AI models - such as Hugging Face and Stability AI - are still for profit venture backed companies. Open source doesn't mean noncommercial or magically benevolent.

realizes that the ads on this site, now (compared to the mythical past,) are really coloring my experience very negatively. It's not their existence, it's the quality. I feel offended to be shown that garbage, with the implication that it is reflecting my interest and conduct.

will be mostly hanging out as (at)camelusminimus(dot)bsky(dot)social on another place.

while I am only here to perhaps find kind souls to fill out a questionaire for a student under my supervision, I do want to apologize for this intrusion into the timeline in advance.

If you used chatGPT at some point and want to be a kind soul, a (bachelor) student looks into issues of trust, experience and aspects of individual perception and could use help: Could you fill out this short (6-7 min) questionaire? (german or english) umfrage.hu-berlin.de/17701?src=1DTW