This is alarming. Noting also that the Saudis are Twitter's second largest investors.

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If you like this style of graphically illustrated science comm, please check out Dan's book "Hidden Systems" which illustrates the history and sociotechnical complexities of our water, electrical, and internet infrastructure.

This is a new mode of science communication and community engagement for me. Dan really tried to get me to break the habit of relying too much on text to communicate ideas, even complex ones. This is something Dan is truly brilliant at.

This is probably the last professional update I'll put on this mess of a platform. I co-wrote a comic with Dan Nott, for @thenib and it's available online today! "Our Labor Built AI" is a comic about how AI has always required human intelligence and labor.

This points to the bad design of standard tests for creativity or the tests are within the training set already. https://t.co/qBzrFX0iUw

I have argued repeatedly that the empowerment of data workers leads to better data. I explored the link between labor conditions and data quality in my dissertation:

Tesla strips out these features you paid for and makes the next driver pay again, reducing the value of your used car and transfering it to Tesla's shareholders: https://t.co/CGbrdKuWUB 18/

But while Musk lacks the charm of earlier Silicon Valley grifters, he's much better than they ever were at running a long con. For years, he's been promising "full self driving...next year." https://t.co/OOofT8uggp 9/

Previous tech barons had "reality distortion fields," but Musk just blithely contradicts himself and pretends he isn't doing so, like a budget Steve Jobs. There's an entire site devoted to cataloging Musk's public lies: https://t.co/UkZDAaNSH9 8/

On one side, we have mountains of evidence showing AI is fallible, overblown, can't substitute for real intel, obscures accountability, yokes big tech & US military in conflicted ways... ETC. On the other, you have the CEO of Palantir... & this guy. https://t.co/WygnOuuyxE

Measuring scholarly impact by paper count is like measuring programmer impact by lines of code count. It's a giant red flag.

This is not sad, this is a warning. A company did everything (mostly) right: created a vitally useful free service, worked hard to keep it healthy, shared data for research. Then another company swooped the data and made it compete against itself.

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This is what happens if an entire site is scraped & plagiarized, all the old Stackoverflow answers are now condensed in an ever confabulating chatbot that doesn't have a clue what it's doing. Be prepared for very buggy software going forward.

Musk doesn't have the money or the staff to meaningfully update or even fix Twitter, so he's making the cheapest, smallest tweak he can - literally swapping out a GIF file - that grabs the biggest headlines. It's nothing but a cheap, meaningless play to get his name in the press.

It blows my mind that the weather has been so unhinged in so many places this summer and yet we're still only discussing the existential risks of AI, and not climate change 🫠

OK, I wrote a blog post about my experiences hitting The Wall in mathematics and then getting past it once I learned more about myself. I hope people enjoy it https://t.co/rYNF4iD0zv

This is the dumbest thing ever not written by ChatGPT. This 👏is why 👏we fund 👏 humanities 👏