#aicon

Next up for reading. The AI Con by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna and then Resisting AI by Dan McQuillan.

#AI #AICon #ResistingAI #Bookstodon #WhatAreYouReading

Dr PenDrPen
2025-06-25

Did your university learning and teaching and education policy units read and discuss The AI Con book yet? If not, why not? Read this very good critique, then get the book. You owe it to yourselves and your students.

The authors of The AI Con know more than most educators or policy-makers, and they need to accept that and read the book, or at least this critique of the book. (See info/links in images alt text.)

theconversation.com/is-ai-a-co

Header image of AI Con critique appearing in The Conversation: "Is AI a Con? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist"

Authors of The AI Con:
Emily Bender is a computational linguist from University of Washington https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/
Alex Henna, formerly Google, now Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) https://alex-hanna.com/The cover of 'The AI Con' book. 
Authors of The AI Con:
Emily Bender is a computational linguist from University of Washington https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/
Alex Henna, formerly Google, now Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) https://alex-hanna.com/

Did your UKHE L&T unit read and discuss The AI Con book yet? If not, why not? Read this very good critique, then get the book. You owe it to yourselves and your students. #aicon #chatgpt #education #uk #academia

Is AI a con? A new book punctu...

If there is one #AI easily accessible article you read this month, it is this one.
👉ESPECIALLY👈 if you hate AI and think they are #bullshit machine, #drek #stochastiparrot #aislop #aicon #spicyautocomplete die die die.

Daniel Kokotajlo an ex-#OpenAI employee was on the Australian ABC morning show, calling out a clarion warning for the humanity to wake up and take the AI THREAT seriously. The words he used were;
"Opening a door to another dimension and aliens are about to come", not literally of course.

ai-2027.com/

#RegulateAI #LLM

🤣 I won't even click...

(a variation of "it's not even wrong". Pro tip: a fancy font doesn't add credibility)

#AIcon #buddhism

2025-06-09
Bijna klaar met the AI Con van Emily Bender en Alex Hanna. Prima boek, al was veel geen verrassing meer voor mij.

Ik heb wel grote moeite met het gemak waarmee ze huidskleur en gender als de dominante scheidingslijn gebruiken om ĂŠlke vorm van machtsstrijd binnen de wereld te duiden. Daar is de realiteit veel te complex voor.

Het boek is wel een leuke tegenstelling met 'AI engineering' van Chip Huyen. Dat is ook een prima boek, zolang het over de techniek zelf gaat. Maar in het boek sluimert wel het soort tech optimisme dat AI goed is voor creativiteit omdat dat toch niks anders zou zijn dan eindeloos 'out of the box' denken.

Enfin, misschien schrijf ik daar nog zelf een blogpost over, want dat soort kortzichtigheid irriteert mij nogal.

Kortom, twee boeken met allebei waardevolle invalshoeken en nadelen. Ze vullen elkaar mooi aan.

#ai #aicon #artificialintelligence #automation
Cartoon van een vrouw die een kindje in bed een sprookje voorleest. Ze citeert uit het grote boek: "En toen de klok 12 uur sloeg, stopte het systeem met hallucineren".
2025-06-04
This scam of pretending a computer system can do much more than it actually can by hiding the labor of lots of smart people has been going on since at least the 1980s.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #crypto #scam #grift #dev #tech #con #AICon
2025-06-04
As with crypto, so with AI:
A $1.5 billion AI company backed by Microsoft has shuttered after its ‘neural network’ was discovered to actually be hundreds of computer engineers based in India.
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ai-company-files-for-bankruptcy-after-being-exposed-as-700-human-engineers-3208136/

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #crypto #scam #grift #dev #tech #con #AICon

A German startup wants to sell LLM “AI” Teddy Bears for kids . What a sign of the times. Unbelievable. This could deserve a mention on Mystery AI Hype Theatre podcast. #aihype #aicon #mysteryaihypetheater3000

Anyone with a humanities, arts or education background, or simply anyone caring about humans, especially small ones, intuitively knows that we can only hope these will turn out to be single-use gimmick toys - a waste of valuable resources, not of childhoods.

linkedin.com/posts/andrija-vuk

∫∀⊂∅laslab@waag.social
2025-05-31

My copy has arrived. :-D
Via our highly valued local bookshop abc.nl/
#AIcon #AI
@emilymbender @alex

cover of a book with title: "THE AI CON" and subtitle "How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want"
Xamanismo Coletivoeliasulrich@hachyderm.io
2025-05-28

"Much of the assertion that #Altman and #Schmidt make about #generativeAI helping with #climatechange is built on the notion that the technology underlying #ChatGPT will soon get so smart, because of all the data it’s taking in, that it will surpass human intelligence and will be able to come up with ideas that humans couldn’t.

But such advocates don’t ever really explain how a technology that’s #notsentient and doesn’t have any real notion of the actual physical world will somehow evolve into what they like to call artificial general intelligence, said @emilymbender and #AlexHanna, co-authors of the new book “The #AICon: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want.”

sfexaminer.com/news/technology

2025-05-22

I just started my next read.

Thanks @emilymbender and @alex .

#Ai #AiCon

Picture of the book, The AI Con, how to fight big tech's hype and create the future we want. By Emily M. bender and Alex Hanna

Kirkus review of The AI Con, by Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna:

kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews

"A refreshingly contrarian take on AI and the clouds of hyperbole surrounding it."

"AI probably won’t replace your job, 'but it will make your job a lot shittier.'"

#AICon #AIHype #Books #Bookstodon

2025-05-17

A former Google AI ethicist and University of Washington professor seek to clarify AI misconceptions. Emily Bender and Alex Hanna's book, "The AI Con," helps readers navigate AI hype. The authors emphasise that AI is often misrepresented as a singular, all-knowing entity. In reality, it is a collection of automated tools, or "stochastic parrots," generating outputs by recognising patterns in data, not genuine intelligence.

#AICon #AIEthics #AIReality

businessinsider.com/the-ai-con

Hector Correahectorjcorrea
2025-05-15

"the [probability of doom] is the wrong metric and the wrong framing. It serves to obfuscate what's really going on. Artificial Intelligence, if we are being frank, is a con: a bill of goods you are being sold to line someone's pockets." - @emilymbender and @alexhanna in The AI Con thecon.ai/

2025-03-06

I love how "Anti-AI" becomes a selling point.

#GenAI #AI #AICon #Photography

Screenshot of app icon and title of an app in the Apple App Store. The app is called Zerocam | Anti-AI Camera
2024-12-17

Wie kann #KI gemeinwohlorientiert eingesetzt werden? Welche Chancen bietet der #AIAct?
Das und mehr haben wir mit spannenden Projekten und Expert*innen bei der #AICon des #TÜV Verbands diskutiert.

📢 Alle Highlights und Einblicke gibt’s im Nachbericht: civic-coding.de/angebote/meldu

Foto: Tobias Koch

Bildercollage von Civic Coding auf der AI Con des TÜV-Verbandes. Drei Bilder zeigen die Podiumsdiskussion mit vier Teilnehmenden, den Infostand von Civic Coding mit Mitarbeitenden der Geschäftsstelle und zwei Personen bei einem Vortrag von Civic Coding während der Veranstaltung.
2024-09-24

I hope @alex and @emilymbender would review the #AISnakeOil book in their podcast, and maybe propose some gaps that they will be addressing in their may 2025 #AICon book

Jason Toaldraggin
2024-09-09

On the Same Page... Artistic Intelligence. (This is the post where I coin the term 'chatscript' and demonstrate its form and use.)

samepagestudio.ca/blog/2024/09

John Jacob Jingleheimer SchmitGenXotaku1971@urusai.social
2023-09-29

2025 is a long way away and there are smaller (mid-size for 🇨🇦 ?) cons like #AiCon in Winnipeg, Manitoba and #GanbatteCon in Saskatoon that I'd almost rather hit before returning to #Otafest too. They're just a bit of a pain to actually get to from where I live in 🇺🇸 in a single day and the host cities only have busses as their main public transportation to get around in which is a bummer.

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