jonippolito

jonippolito, 2 days ago to journalism

What jobs are we preparing students for by boosting their writing productivity with AI? After shedding 40% of its workforce, the gaming site Gamurs posted an ad last June for an editor to write 250 articles per week. That’s a new article every 10 minutes, at $4.25 per article.

As @novomancy has noted, AI is only the accomplice here. This clickbait nightmare is the logical conclusion of the ad-supported web.

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/44308/20230614/gaming-media-company-looks-hire-ai-editor-write-250-articles.htm

#Journalism #Writing #AIethics #AIEdu #AIinEducation #Gaming

molly0xfff, 22 days ago to web

If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the #web, what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?

No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.

jonippolito, 24 days ago to random

This demo of a tool that can compare the output of a dozen AI models at once results in surprisingly common answers to prompts like "tell me a joke" or "give me a random number." When an average is well established, LLM results are reliable—and uncreative https://youtu.be/C3H4LKmcw1M?si=5tT7-fCdIobLQw79

jonippolito, 1 month ago to generativeAI

Google's Education VP wants us to believe AI is the classroom's new calculator, but this is a terrible analogy:

1. We know how calculators produce their results.
2. You can check a calculator's answer using pretty much the same algorithm it uses.
3. Rare floating point errors aside, calculators do not invent false answers.
4. Calculators are based on math principles; LLMs are based on no principles.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/06/0541216/ais-impact-on-cs-education-likened-to-calculators-impact-on-math-education #AIethics #AIEdu #AIinEducation #AIliteracy #GenerativeAI #GenAI #LLM

jonippolito, 1 month ago to Cybersecurity

A cybersecurity researcher finds that 20% of software packages recommended by GPT-4 are fake, so he builds one that 15,000 code bases already depend on, to prevent some hacker from writing a malware version.

Disaster averted in this case, but there aren't enough fingers to plug all the AI-generated holes 😬

https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/03/30/1744209/ai-hallucinated-a-dependency-so-a-cybersecurity-researcher-built-it-as-proof-of-concept-malware

#AIethics #Cybersecurity #GPT #OpenAI #LLM #GenAI #GenerativeAI #Python #NodeJS #Ruby #Golang

jonippolito, 1 month ago to random

I'm glad a few patients benefit, but saying a neural link "reads your mind" is ontologically equivalent to saying that ChatGPT "understands how an air fryer works." These shorthand phrases imply some level of software / wetware engineering that just hasn't been invented yet 3/3

jonippolito, 1 month ago to Futurology

As impressive as Musk's solitary NeuraLink demo is, beneath the hype lies a misperception with a disturbing parallel to large language models. Both operate on statistical inference rather than scientific models of the brain, and garner attention for cherrypicked successes 1/3

#NeuraLink #AGI #AIliteracy #ChatGPT #LLM #MachineLearning

jonippolito, 2 months ago to generativeAI

AI companies to universities: Personalized tutors will make you obsolete

Also AI companies: Thanks for recording your lectures so we can sell them on the open market to train personalized tutors

https://annettevee.substack.com/p/when-student-data-is-the-new-oil

#Data #HigherEducation #OnlineLearning #AIethics #AIinEducation #GenerativeAI #LLM

jonippolito, 2 months ago to llm

"Aftermarket" fixes applied after training, like injecting diversity terms into prompts, don't fix the underlying model and can even exacerbate harmful fabrications. If the training set is biased—and the Internet is—it's really hard to correct that after the fact.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/technology/google-gemini-german-uniforms.html

#AIethics #AIimages #LLM #PromptEngineering #DEI

jonippolito, 3 months ago to DigitalArt

This exquisite collaboration between artist Auriea Harvey and curator Regina Harsanyi is a gift to anyone who wants to learn more about digital art. Unwrapping it reveals virtuoso lessons in Internet art, emulation, 3-D scanning, indie video games, and augmented reality

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/auriea-harvey-museum-of-the-moving-image-new-york-1234695102/

#DigitalArt #AR #3d #Museums #Emulation

jonippolito, 3 months ago to random

US copyright law doesn't allow enough leeway for emulation, so I joined Harvard Law School, Software Preservation Network, and Library Copyright Alliance in arguing for a DMCA exemption to expand access to copyrighted tech for education and preservation.

https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2024/comments/Class%206(a)%20-%20Initial%20Comments%20-%20%20Software%20Preservation%20Network%20and%20Library%20Copyright%20Alliance.pdf

#Copyright #Libraries #Museums #ComputerHistory #Digipres #DigitalPreservation #MediaArcheology

jonippolito, 3 months ago to Emulation

@euanc 's research shows why we need preservation alternatives to migration like emulation. Look at how something as important as exponents in equations changes in various environments. Imagine if this was the formula for a drug or a flight plan to the Moon!

https://web.archive.org/web/20130207025458/http://archives.govt.nz/resources/information-management-research/rendering-matters-report-results-research-digital-object-0

#ComputerHistory #Digipres #DigitalPreservation #Emulation #MediaArcheology #Migration

jonippolito, 4 months ago to ChatGPT

AI metaphors lurk even in seemingly innocuous statements like "chatbots don't understand what isn't programmed into their datasets."

Words like "understand" and "programmed" don't reflect what's going on under the hood with large language models.

OK, we can't all say "an overfit embedding yields misleading centroids," but we all do need to recognize metaphor's power and perils. This paper is a good start: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08711

#AIethics #AIinEducation AIliteracy #ChatGPT #DeepLearning #LLM

jonippolito, 4 months ago to ukteachers

I'm proposing that all educators confronting AI—even writing teachers—ask students to generate an image. Unlike ChatGPT, which comes off as some kind of robot oracle, text-to-image generators show AI capabilities and limits in vivid color 🧵 1/4

https://blog.still-water.net/why-you-should-generate-ai-images-in-your-classroom/

#EdTech #AcademicMastodon #EduTooters #Art #Writing #AIethics #AIimages #AIinEducation #ChatGPT #DALLE #GenerativeAI #LLM #Midjourney #StableDiffusion #AILiteracy

jonippolito, 4 months ago to design

UMaine New Media and Computer Science just finished a groundbreaking 4-month experiment comparing AI with traditional digital methods in creative tasks. From essay writing to game design, 50 students tested AI's capabilities head-to-head with conventional tools https://blog.still-water.net/ai-versus-old-school-creativity 🧵1/7

#AcademicMastodon #EduTooters #Design #GameDesign #NewMedia #Writing #AIimages #AIinEducation #ChatGPT #GenerativeAI #GenerativeAIArt #StableDiffusion #CreativeCoding #DigitalArt #EdTech #LearnToCode #P5js

jonippolito, 5 months ago to Futurology

When I first introduced DNA as a storage medium to my students in 2014, it seemed like a radical idea. It's still radical, but no longer just an idea.

We look at the pros and cons of all storage media in my online #DigitalPreservation course starting 17 January (via https://DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu)

"Want to Store a Message in DNA? That’ll Be $1,000"

https://www.wired.com/story/store-a-message-in-dna/

#DNA #Biotech #Archives #Data #DigitalCuration #Digipres #Storage

jonippolito, 5 months ago to random

From the What a Surprise Department:

"Judge: Amazon “cannot claim shock” that bathroom spycams were used as advertised"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/amazon-faces-trial-after-selling-bathroom-spycam-used-to-abuse-minor/

jonippolito, 6 months ago to ai

Harvard's metaLab has launched https://aipedagogy.org, a resource chock full of tasty assignments by trailblazers of generative AI in the classroom. (My own "AI Sandwich" is also on the menu.)

I've already stolen Juliana Castro's "Illustrate a Hoax" for my own class!

#AI #AcademicMastodon #EduTooters #HigherEd #Writing #AIethics #AIinEducation #ChatGPT #DeepLearning #GenerativeAI #GenerativeAIArt #GPT #LLM #MachineLearning #OpenAI #StableDiffusion #STEMEducation

textfiles, 6 months ago to random

Kind of defeats the purpose, really

jonippolito, 6 months ago to SelfDrivingCars

In a recent guest lecture I noted that self-driving cars are still a dicey proposition despite an investment of 30 years and $100bn. Now San Francisco has suspended Cruise operations after its robotaxi drove over and pinned a pedestrian hit by another car to the ground. I know Cruise gives their cars cutesy names, but did they really have to name this one "panini"? 😬

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/california-regulators-suspend-recently-approved-san-francisoc-robotaxi-104258076

#AIethics #SelfDrivingCars #Cruise

jonippolito, 6 months ago to generativeAI

Repeated calls by artists for transparency in this NYU/USC symposium ignore the fact that generative AI is opaque by nature. Generative AI exploits the most transparent digital medium of all time—"view source" is literally built into every web browser—to make a technology so opaque even even its creators don't understand how it works.

https://eclive.engelberg.center/episodes/genai-the-creativity-cycle-can-ai-help-everyone-enjoy-culture-as-a-global-public-good

#AIethics #AIimages #GenerativeAI #AIlaw

jonippolito, 6 months ago to Emulation

It's World Digital Preservation Day, and I'm lucky to be one of the teachers again for the spring #DigitalPreservation course offered by @DigitCurator. I've always been energized by the subjects we cover, from nuts-and-bolts like checksums and emulation to out-of-the-box ideas like preserving history in DNA or folk stories.

Registration is now open for this online course running 17 Jan to 26 Apr.

https://DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu

#Archives #Data #GLAM #Libraries #Museums #Digipres #Emulation #Storage