maker of soft blinky things, aspirational cordwain, non-human primate enthusiast, AI apocalypse prevention operative

Toronto / Kingston
Joined December 2016
fleeing this hellhole. find me on bluesky.
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Used ChatGPT to write a grad school networking email to rip apart in a writing exercise for my students, and it produced exactly the kind of form letter I get hundreds of. A couple hours later one such letter showed up in my inbox and more than half was word for word identical.
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catherine stinson retweeted
Retweet this if you think the Ontario government should immediately reverse their cuts to healthcare for uninsured people. #Healthcare4All
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OpenAI may have tested GPT-4 on the training data: we found slam-dunk evidence that it memorizes coding problems that it's seen. Besides, exams don't tell us about real-world utility: It’s not like a lawyer’s job is to answer bar exam questions all day. aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/gp…
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Boring take: the main problem with the Chomsky ChatGPT opinion piece is that it’s so boring.
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LOL sob
And just like that, the hypothetical socially beneficial sci-fi use cases, so central to AI boosters' marketing, dissolve into air, leaving only the imperatives of capital.
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So happy to see this much needed resource launch! Thanks to Rohan Khan and @douglasmartin for doing the heavy lifting from @QueensComputing.
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Should I title my grant application What’s the DL on DL?
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I’m re-reading fucking Benjamin because of an AI project. Walter, not Ruha.
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