David Gozzard

Senior Research Fellow at @ICRAR @uwanews firing lasers into space. Excited by all things #science & #scicomm.

[David Gozzard @DRG_physics]

Exciting that we are closer than ever to having an astronaut flying the Australian flag in space.

[David Gozzard @DRG_physics]

Very grateful to be recognized in the Business News WA 40 Under 40 list. Thank you to @ICRAR @uwanews for encouragement and support.
#40under40WA #BNevents #science #phdlife

[Fiona H. Panther @FiPanther]

Never stop making time for those little romantic interactions in your marriage

[Fiona H. Panther @FiPanther]

My husband kindly making dinner because I’m too unwell to do it vs. my facial expression while micromanaging how he cuts up an onion

[Natalie Khalil @natalienkhalil]

Basically

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Send them a teams meeting link and finish them off

[Sam Rosenfeld @sam_rosenfeld]

the modern professor's feeling of warm relief and gratitude at encountering artisanal, human-crafted bad writing while grading papers

[David Gozzard @DRG_physics]

3) AI is not itself creative or productive without a human in the loop. If the job can be entirely done by AI, rather than the AI just being a tool to speed up a human's work, the job is a waste of time, does not need to be done, and a competent manager should eliminate that job.

[David Gozzard @DRG_physics]

Ok, I'll bite.
1) This is an oversimplification. Bullshit jobs arise for a variety of reasons. Some will be retained, some will be automated away.
2) AI will lead to a variety of new BS jobs.
3) If the job can be done with current AI, it didn't need to be done and is BS.

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

A good test of whether people actually believe specific academic theories is if they use them to argue against other fashionable ideas when they conflict, even if the new position's lower status. Anyone who believes Graeber's Bullshit Jobs argument should also be pretty vocal right now that companies will not be at all interested in replacing workers with AI.

[David Gozzard @DRG_physics]

2) AI is already leading to new BS jobs. The deluge of AI slop is proof enough of that.

[Fiona H. Panther @FiPanther]

.@DRG_physics: can I get your help with a statistics thing?
Me: yes, absolutely
Toddler: can I help too?

[David Gozzard @DRG_physics]

Low stimulation entertainment idea for your toddler:

Put on the cricket.

They could watch for 5 days and receive no stimulation whatsoever.

[Ross Sayers @Sayers33]

Saw a girl in a Franz Ferdinand t-shirt. She couldn't even name 3 other main causes of the outbreak of World War I

[David Gozzard @DRG_physics]

Oi!
Galahs aren't due until the second day of Christmas.
Buzz off!

[Floppy 🇺🇸 @Floppy401]

About that time

[David Gozzard @DRG_physics]

.@FiPanther asked me for a very specific recipe book for Christmas.
Today I learned it's the one with THE beef Wellington recipe.

Should I be worried?

[David Gozzard @DRG_physics]

I roll my eyes not because you're wrong but because you think you're funny.

[Fiona H. Panther @FiPanther]

I never understood when adults couldn’t figure out the correct name for characters on kids shows, but @DRG_physics reaction to referring incorrectly to one of the Octonauts as ‘professor tentacles’ is why I’ve committed to the bit.

[David Gozzard @DRG_physics]

@FiPanther I feel a dirge would have been more appropriate.