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Simon Brooke<a href="https://functional.cafe/@otfrom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@otfrom</a> But they're not automated decision machines. We know how to make (reasonably good) automated decision machines, and these are not them. These are automated nonsense generators, nothing more.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StochasticMonkeysWithTypewriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticMonkeysWithTypewriters</a>

Simon Brooke<a href="https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@susankayequinn</a> What we need is an ethical AI company called 'Pomor', being the bits <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Anthropic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anthropic</a> left out.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrots</a>

trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:Generative AI advocates should be forced to only interact with other people online through vibe coded operating systems and browsers. <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#generativeAI</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/eliza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#eliza</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#llm</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/stochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stochasticParrots</a>

Jayne"Just one more decade until functional and profitable artificial general intelligence, just one more decade bro"-AI advocates for the last seventy years(perhaps the AI bros where the real <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrots</a> all along)

Simon BrookeIt's hard to know who to be sorrier for. The 9,000 who are losing their jobs, or the rest who are going to have to take on not only the additional work of clearing up the mess the AI makes, but also the work of their dismissed colleagues.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrots</a> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxl0w1w394o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxl0w1w394o</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®<a href="https://mastodon.online/@larsmb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@larsmb</a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/@b_rain" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@b_rain</a> This was the conclusion of the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrots</a> paper

crater🐮n"it's impossible to talk about anything else. GenAI has sucked the air out of every room, and no one can hear you scream reason in a hard vacuum."<a href="https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-article-on-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-article-on-ai/</a><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#genai</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/aislop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aislop</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/stochasticparrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stochasticparrots</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®Y’all, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrots</a> are the iceberg.

Kathy ReidWere you hoping to see <a href="https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@emilymbender</a> in conversation with <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Kobotic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Kobotic</a> in Melbs at <a href="https://aus.social/tags/RMIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RMIT</a> courtesy of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Readings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Readings</a> but they were sold out? Good news, they've moved to Storey Hall which is 4 x the capacity. Get your tix 💖 <a href="https://aus.social/tags/StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrots</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BenderRule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BenderRule</a><a href="https://www.readings.com.au/events/emily-m-bender-and-kobi-leins-discuss-ai" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.readings.com.au/events/emily-m-bender-and-kobi-leins-discuss-ai</a>

wobweger :verified:<a href="https://mastodon.social/@skry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@skry</a> chat log also necessary to hold them accountablethem being the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrots</a> find this user protect spin most funny 🤪 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAI</a> use every bit of information they can get their hands on, without any thoughts on copy right, intellectual property or personal rights in the first place, but deleting <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> output should protect users right 😂 sure 🙃 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/salami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#salami</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AGI</a>

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<a href="https://swiss.social/@evelynefoerster" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@evelynefoerster</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/K%C3%BCnstlicheIntelligenz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KünstlicheIntelligenz</a> und die Zukunft der Menschheit(3/n)... und des Handys war diese geradezu prophetisch.Leider entwickeln sich die Menschheit zwar enorm in diese Richtung, jedoch ist es oder wird es keine symbiotische Beziehung.Es geht asymmetrisch in Richtung von <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MinorityReport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MinorityReport</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheMatrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheMatrix</a> und <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SecondVariety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SecondVariety</a>.Die Vorläufer zur <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/K%C3%BCnstlichenIntenz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KünstlichenIntenz</a>, die <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrots</a> der <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> wurden nicht...

Kathy ReidOMG SQUEEEE<a href="https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@emilymbender</a> is going to be in Melbs in conversation with <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Kobotic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Kobotic</a> Kaleide Theatre, <a href="https://aus.social/tags/RMIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RMIT</a> Tuesday 1 July, 6pm AEST Tix free: <a href="https://www.readings.com.au/events/emily-m-bender-and-kobi-leins-discuss-ai" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.readings.com.au/events/emily-m-bender-and-kobi-leins-discuss-ai</a>To discuss her new book <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TheAICon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheAICon</a> written with <a href="https://dair-community.social/@alex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@alex</a> If you hate the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> hype as much as I do and generally think of AI as bullshit generation and epistemic violence then you will love this. If you loved the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrots</a> paper, you will love this. I try and use the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BenderRule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BenderRule</a> (Bender, 2019) in every talk I give - "state the language in which you practice" - because English is only 1 of 7000 other languages spoken in the world.

Simon Brooke<a href="https://mastodon.social/@kagihq" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@kagihq</a> I would be much more inclined to sign up if you offered a package with NO AI.It's not a feature. Your customers don't want it.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrots</a>

TWiT Podcasts📣 <a href="https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@emilymbender</a> & <a href="https://dair-community.social/@alex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@alex</a> join Intelligent Machines 819 to call out Big Tech's AI promises in their new book The AI Con. They dive into: • The danger of "stochastic parrots” • Tech's exploitation of data • What the future should look like🎧 <a href="https://twit.tv/im/819" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://twit.tv/im/819</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIethics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ResponsibleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ResponsibleAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrots</a>

Preston Maness ☭<a href="https://timeloop.cafe/@Taweret" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Taweret</a> Gemini is trying to get smarter, but adding pointless complexity still throws the Stochastic Parrot off. Query:"which has more mass three times two minus one pounds of potatoes or two times three minus one pounds of steel"Response:"**The potatoes have more mass**. Three times two minus one pounds of potatoes is 5 pounds. Two times three minus one pounds of steel is also 5 pounds. Since steel is denser than potatoes, the same amount of mass by weight (pounds) in steel will take up less space (volume) than the same amount of mass by weight in potatoes."<a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/GeminiAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeminiAI</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Gemini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gemini</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/llms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#llms</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/StochasticParrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrot</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrots</a>

Preston Maness ☭<a href="https://thebullshitmachines.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thebullshitmachines.com</a>I'm only finished with the first chapter --and with going through all of the supplementary material for chapter one that's hyperlinked in the instructor guide, which I think should be mandatory rather than supplementary-- but I'm already convinced that this class (and its supplementary materials) should be a requirement for CS majors at least, if not for engineers and "STEM"-type majors in general.The Stochastic Parrots paper, in particular, is excellent. Two of that paper's listed authors (Emily Bender <a href="https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@emilymbender</a>, Angelina McMillan-Major) hail from the University of Washington. Not surprising then, I suppose, that the folks behind this class/course/curriculum/website also hail from there: Carl Bergstrom (<a href="https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ct_bergstrom</a>) and Jevin West (@jevinwest@x.com). Those two are also members of a broader effort from that same university called the Center for an Informed Public (<a href="https://mastodon.ngo/@uwcip" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@uwcip</a>).<a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#llm</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/cs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cs</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComputerScience</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chatgpt</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/claude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#claude</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/gemini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gemini</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/dalle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dalle</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/midjourney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#midjourney</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/StableDiffusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StableDiffusion</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/StochasticParrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrot</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrots</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Curriculum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curriculum</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/CurriculumDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CurriculumDevelopment</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/pedagogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pedagogy</a>

Simon Brooke"Moreover, while <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenAI</a> can improve worker efficiency, it can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving. Higher confidence in GenAI’s ability to perform a task is related to less critical thinking effort"<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrots</a> (link to <a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@internetarchive</a> in case Microsoft decide to delete or modify the paper)<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250213084810/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20250213084810/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf</a>

Hypolite PetovanMy partner regularly receives similar Request For Proposals (RFP), so she created template responses that she validated with Legal in order to speed up the processing of RFP forms. Now her boss is suggesting her to use a custom ChatGPT integration fed with these template responses in order to ask the chatbot to regurgitate them later, in a form that needs to be vetted by Legal again, before filling in the same RFP forms. In order to "improve efficiency". 🤯Now, I do get why unscrupulous bosses want to use AI to commodify intellectual work. I despise it, but I get it, it makes sense to me, even if every fiber of my being is against it. On the other hand, I don't understand this particular use other than ChatGPT being a hammer and everything is made into nails. This leads me to believe that the core market of OpenAI is simply stupid people wooed by a chatbot that sounds smarter than they are. It's brilliant, the scaling potential is infinite!<a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=ChatBots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatBots</a> <a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAI</a> <a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/search?tag=StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrots</a>

Simon Brooke"Use of GitHub Copilot... introduced 41% more bugs"Is ANYONE surprised?<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrots</a><a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3540579/devs-gaining-little-if-anything-from-ai-coding-assistants.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cio.com/article/3540579/devs-gaining-little-if-anything-from-ai-coding-assistants.html</a>

Simon Brooke"Google Scholar’s central position in the publicly accessible scholarly communication infrastructure, as well as its lack of standards, transparency, and accountability in terms of inclusion criteria, has potentially serious implications for public trust in science. This is likely to exacerbate the already-known potential to exploit Google Scholar for evidence hacking (Tripodi et al., 2023)"<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StochasticParrots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StochasticParrots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AcademicFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicFraud</a><a href="https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation/</a>

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