Very excited to do this - we're hiring again! 2 x Lecturer B positions in the Media Department at Uni of Adelaide. Awesome team, great courses, room to grow as a scholar, and both positions are ongoing! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/5112…

"I understand that ChatGPT is in its infancy but perhaps that is the emerging horror of AI – that it will forever be in its infancy, as it will always have further to go, and the direction is always forward, always faster."

We know you stepped down as chair in 2019. We still need you to approve travel requests and IRB submissions. No one can figure out how to change the approval routing.

Today's F-150 owners like to describe their vehicle as "powerful" and "rugged" -- while using it mostly for "shopping/errands" and "pleasure driving." (The vast majority don't tow anything all year.) axios.com/ford-pickup-tr…

We can either design cities & communities for people where normal physical activity is an almost invisible part of daily life, or we can design places for cars where physical activity requires extraordinary effort. My comments on Australia’s News Breakfast

Consultancies know less than they claim, cost more than they seem to, and — over the long term — prevent the public sector developing in-house capabilities. From my Financial Times interview with Henry Mance on my new book with Rosie Collington - The Big Con. ft.com/content/fb1254…

Useful non-moral panic discussion of "generative AI" here makezine.com/article/craft/…

Keanu seems more attuned to the industrial relations issues of AI for creative and artists wired.com/story/keanu-re…

Look for the twist whereby Bing corrects itself eventually by finding the below discussion on Twitter.

12/ This is followed by: ‘COVID-19, commuter territories and the e-bike boom’ by Gordon Waitt, Ian Buchanan (UOW), @TessSLea (GCS Sydney) and Glen Fuller (University of Canberra) #openaccess #areajournal : doi.org/10.1111/area.1…

Here is the release from the Education Dept on university sector finances education.gov.au/higher-educati…

theguardian.com/australia-news…

Gebru's co-author on the Parrots paper was @emilymbender.bsky.social, a computational linguistics specialist at UW, who is one of the best-informed and most damning critics of AI hype. You can get a good sense of her position from Elizabeth Weil's New York Magazine profile: nymag.com/intelligencer/… 35/

funny that we produced exactly one generation of people who can understand computers

I'm glad I get to continue referencing Skrillex in my teaching with this piece on dancibility in the #hottest100 from ABC's Digital Story Innovation team abc.net.au/news/2023-02-0…

Also it is criminal this only has 6k plays at the moment, Downer by Keli Holiday. (100% the kids are wrong.) open.spotify.com/track/5pKdj9LS…

Great article, I read it as Twitter's obituary nytimes.com/2023/04/18/mag…

We have two jobs advertised, one Level C in Sports Media timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listin… and the other as a level B in Arts timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listin…

If you are confused or don’t understand “the voice” vote this week, Google it! Vote informed ya legends xox

Looks like FTC website is down