Marisa Ponti @OpenEd@mastodon.bida.im

"Instead of a full-blown AI winter, we are likely to see a drop in funding for longer-term AI research and more pressure to make money using the technology, says Wooldridge."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/24/1067232/the-economy-is-down-but-ai-is-hot-where-do-we-go-from-here/?truid=4d57edfd232dbebc03d0070ef819c0d7&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=Active%20Qualified&utm_content=01-24-2023&mc_cid=6c43cb1b84&mc_eid=f179f987d6

If you are writing about "neutral" platform ranking or discussing the benefits of chronological order, may I recommend the "Getting rid of amplification" section of my piece here: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/amplification-and-its-discontents

Especially if what you are writing is a Supreme Court brief.

"Adapting College Writing for the Age of Large Language Models Such as ChatGPT: Some Next Steps for Educators"

Writing this with the amazing Lauren Goodlad of
@CriticalAI helped me clarify what I support out of all the possible courses of action. https://criticalai.org/2023/01/17/critical-ai-adapting-college-writing-for-the-age-of-large-language-models-such-as-chatgpt-some-next-steps-for-educators/

What do you think of the suggestions?

#AIED #AIEthics #GPT3 #LLMs #HigherEd

RT @timnitGebru

“@safiyanoble warns us in Algorithms of Oppression, these platforms aren’t neutral reflections of either the world as it is or how people talk about the world, but rather shaped by various corporate interests. It is urgent that we as a public learn to conceptualize the workings of information access systems...recognize that an overlay of apparent fluency does not…entail accuracy, informational value, or trustworthiness.” -By @emilymbender & Chirag Shah

https://iai.tv/articles/all-knowing-machines-are-a-fantasy-auid-2334

“Misinformation is a defining issue of our time. I think it's good news that more and more people, including governments, are taking this battle against misinformation really seriously, because that's what's required.

Misinformation is killing people, it's destroying our democracy. It's leading to stigma and discrimination.”

#misinformation #democracy #publicHealth

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/misinformation-is-killing-people-a-q-a-with-misinformation-expert-timothy-caulfield-1.6700533

Congratulations to my @popeurope colleagues for publishing one of the largest, best curated open ethnographic datasests I have ever encountered: 8,000 interview fragments (570K words), with 12K annotations and over 1,500 codes. #populism #Europe https://edgeryders.eu/t/final-version-of-ethno-data-published/18313?u=alberto

Read these suggestions re retraction by Edlund et al https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-022-03764-x, but feel they are devised for a different age, before papermills came on the scene.
My thoughts here on PubPeer: https://pubpeer.com/publications/CE89619858F99B254F814E611FC45D#1
Can we just agree to speed up mass retractions from dodgy special issues where the editor has let in gobbledegook?

"The trouble is, Twitter isn’t about code so much as it is about people."
WaPo: What Elon Musk failed to understand about Twitter https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/21/elon-musk-twitter-mistakes-technology-people/

Today’s social media status quo isn’t cutting it, so Mozilla is exploring an alternative here on Mastodon. In early 2023, Mozilla will be testing a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. We will keep you updated, but for now learn more here: mzl.la/3BNXQMQ