This is a great insight. Thank you, Mahler and RT Artur Kluz . Wow. Eleanor Murray Dr. Abrar Chaudhury Paulo Savaget Lucas Kello Tim Hannigan | @[email protected] Guillermo Casasnovas Teppo Felin Pinar Ozcan

Great thread here, thanks Antoine Vernet 🇺🇦 !

Experts are scrambling to use genAI as they see fit. In many orgs this will be forbidden or limited. Merton (1938!) teaches us some will try anyway. New paper shows a bit of the how. Cool twist: wolf-in-sheep's-clothing projects. Appear legit. Aren't. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Another example of botshit in practice. “Air Canada's chatbot gave a B.C. man the wrong information. Now, the airline has to pay for the mistake”. We need to ask, how common is this? When will it begin to affect their reputation? Ian P. McCarthy André Spicer bc.ctvnews.ca/air-canada-s-c…

Great post here!

Cc Ian P. McCarthy André Spicer

This episode of Front Burner with Gary Marcus was interesting. Good discussion about the pros and cons of generative AI use. It’s important to stress its value in prototyping, less in systems requiring reliability. I highly recommend giving it a listen podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/fro…

The impact of AI on business and society ft.com/content/e082b0… via @ft . Good concise read that overviews the key issues, debates, and challenges . Thank you @lucy_colback

Great to see our paper now in print at Business Horizons, "Beware of botshit: How to manage the epistemic risks of generative chatbots". Ian P. McCarthy André Spicer sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Just thinking that "gobbledygook" is my favorite near-synonym for "jargon monoxide" Here's our table from my latest book with Huggy Rao, The Friction Project, which summarizes four kinds of jargon monoxide I would now add "botshit" via Tim Hannigan | @[email protected] Ian P. McCarthy André Spicer

In this thought provoking piece Rupert Younger outlines how organisations should establish their stakeholder engagement plans, and regain some important and much needed agency over the powerful emerging phenomenon that is generative #AI. oxsbs.link/3vNcnbT

If LLMs can simulate human survey responses fairly well, will this enable a new type of data fabrication/academic fraud? A question I wish I would have posed in this new article: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

I recently reviewed Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett's book "Group Life" for Administrative Science Quarterly. As an invitation to "local sociology", this book establishes the group as central in meso-level analysis. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Our concept is word of the day on QI. Here's the original paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

My experience working on NotebookLM, now live in 180+ countries, has convinced me that the humanities will be increasingly relevant in a world shaped by AI. Here's the case for it (featuring Dan Shipper 📧 Andrej Karpathy Alison Gopnik Ezra Klein Holly Herndon): adjacentpossible.substack.com/p/revenge-of-t…

Could botshit ruin your business? We take a look at how to manage the risks in Harvard Business Review today hbr.org/2024/07/the-ri…

So heartbreaking to follow this news about Jasper burning tonight. This is a true Canadian gem. #jasper