What an insane day in the world of AI. We got huge announcements from Google, HuggingFace, Scale AI, and Synthesia. Here's the rundown on everything you need to know:

They’re coming and it doesn’t look pretty… #tenure #texas #academia axios.com/local/austin/2…

#Academia is broken. Those of us in the game know this. It’s often hard to explain why. I like #AndyStapleton’s YT channel and his following video is a nice explanation of what’s happening now regarding #academicpublishing #profit and #science youtu.be/5xgbRxA_7DI

The famed Stanford Smallville is officially open-source! 25 AI agents inhabit a digital Westworld, unaware that they are living in a simulation. They go to work, gossip, organize socials, make new friends, and even fall in love. Each has unique personality and backstory.

Powerful journalism from The Daily Tar Heel.

"Will academics ever actually give up Twitter? It’s too soon to tell. This moment does feel different, though. And the proof may be in the scale of the retreat." chronicle.com/article/is-aca…

I wanted to use Foucault to consider the academic reward system, academic publishing, and metrics -- the triad that's broken academia, IMO.... Next step will be to examine policies/communications over time considering power/knowledge using FDA. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

The Retraction Watch Database becomes completely open – and RW becomes far more sustainable. retractionwatch.com/2023/09/12/the…

You can give ChatGPT a picture of your team’s whiteboarding session and have it write the code for you. This is absolutely insane.

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A prompt library for experimental use in education: github.com/microsoft/prom… Microsoft* put together a prompt library for GPT-4 for educators, students, & admin using some of our prompts as a basis. Add your own! *We do not take any compensation from them or any other AI company

Now live! Using Altmetric Data Responsibly: A Guide to Interpretation and Good Practice vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/1… intro blog post here thebibliomagician.wordpress.com/2023/10/12/int… Special thanks to @nrobinsongarcia, @kholmber Altmetric and Timothy D Bowman (he/him) for providing valuable peer review & feedback

The proposal "Towards responsible publishing" by cOAlition S has just been published. Find out more in this thread🧵and stay tuned for further updates! #openscience #responsiblepublishing

Another #impact on #HigherEd in the USA. While it aims to be more inclusive, #metrics like this still contribute to the #MatthewEffect and maintain division Carnegie Is Changing How It Classifies R1 Institutions. Will Your University Make the Cut? chronicle.com/article/carneg…

New blog post on a concept that seeks to advance responsible research assessment by developing #ScholarlyMetrics Literacies through educating the broader academic community. Authors: @maddtrics @SEL_in_Action Isabelle Dorsch (she/her) Carey Ming-Li Chen @stefhaustein thebibliomagician.wordpress.com/2023/12/06/dev…

A brand-new version of our user interface just went live, and we're excited about it! Try it out now at openalex.org

Back in 2022, the Scholars on Twitter dataset was launched. In this new blog post, Philippe Mongeon, Timothy D Bowman (he/him), Rodrigo Costas and Wenceslao Arroyo Machado update us on how they dealt with various challenges coming from the data providers in the meantime leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/an-up…

It’s getting interesting… sakana.ai/ai-scientist/

Introducing Project Sid: the first simulations of 1000+ truly autonomous agents collaborating in a virtual world, w/ emergent economy, culture, religion, and government Humans are the only species to land the moon, because we can cooperate at a vast scale Can AI do the same?