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

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.)

https://theconversation.com/is-ai-a-con-a-new-book-punctures-the-hype-and-proposes-some-ways-to-resist-257015

#academicchatter #academia #education #ai #aicon #chatgpt

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.

https://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

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.

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.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrija-vuksanovic_mymilo-ki4kids-screenfree-activity-7332520365060943872-gjSc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAFNT48BqSdoJQp9H6pfd-9FMHsCn7PIsCM

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

"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.”

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/technology/why-chatgpt-generative-ai-unlikely-to-solve-climate-change/article_3af9df0f-0cb6-41d0-93bd-417c5ead8c99.html

I just started my next read.

Thanks @emilymbender and @alex .

#Ai #AiCon

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

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/emily-m-bender/the-ai-con/

"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

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

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ai-con-emily-bender-alex-hanna-ai-hype-2025-5

"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 https://thecon.ai/

#aicon #ai

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

#GenAI #AI #AICon #Photography

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: https://www.civic-coding.de/angebote/meldungen/civic-coding-bei-der-tuev-aicon

Foto: Tobias Koch

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

On the Same Page... Artistic Intelligence. (This is the post where I coin the term 'chatscript' and demonstrate its form and use.)
#chatscript #AIcon #humansfirst
https://samepagestudio.ca/blog/2024/09/09/artistic-intelligence/

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.