Tanja Knaus

PhD fellow @ TIK-Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, @UniOslo | Science and Technology Studies | software studies | researching voice recognition

[Tanja Knaus @KnausTanja]

I'm glad to announce that I am leaving X, this - or any other platform of this kind - shouldn't be supported anymore - for all the obvious reasons we all know. Time to leave and free up the mind! >> ; find me on linkedin (for now)

[Tanja Knaus @KnausTanja]

@bumatic @mediaofcoop @essueff @skoopit Congratulations 🍾✨ excited to see more!

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

#MAIHT3k ep 20 "Let's Do the Time Warp! (to the "Founding" of "Artificial Intelligence")" -- @alexhanna and I got in a time machine and brought back this report:

https://t.co/bJ7WqJm7vc

Thanks to @ctaylsaurus for production :)

[Melanie Mitchell @MelMitchell1]

New paper from my group:

"Comparing Humans, GPT-4, and GPT-4V On Abstraction and Reasoning Tasks". 🧵 (1/9)

https://t.co/TWQIAFsVpu

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

The level to which this petulant manchild is tolerated is incredible.

https://t.co/OfSwxcuVDX

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

bear with me here: the new X icon is actually completely adorable if you change the settings to baby pink. Instead of aggressive masculinity it’s just this little teeny tiny kiss to speak to the little imaginary internet friends that live in your phone 🥰

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

For those of you following the escalating situation at 145 UK Universities:

University management has now decided not to graduate students and hand out participation certificates instead.

Yes you read that correctly. It's beyond absurdity. I'm lost for words.

[Tanja Knaus @KnausTanja]

“Anthropomorphism of dialogue systems” - this great paper argues that LLM can reinforce stereotypes of gender roles and notions of acceptable language, by personalising it’s content to the user ubiquitously

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

This paper, by @gavin_does_nlp, Cercas Curry, @t_dinkar and @ZeerakTalat is a delight!

https://t.co/e22Ya9riYz

Some highlights:

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[Tanja Knaus @KnausTanja]

Can’t wait to be part of the conference ‘Technolinguistics in Practice’ @UniSiegen @mediaofcoop next week! > I will talk about the automated recognition of 'non-linguistic' aspects of speech in relation to its linguistic content - the body and its signals in health care.

[Marcus Burkhardt @bumatic]

Join the in Siegen @mediaofcoop, May 24-26, for the conference “Technolinguistics in Practice: Socially Situating Language in AI Systems” with keynotes by Paul Kockelman, @mccastelle and Ilana Gershon. https://t.co/kwTaoZGo1Q

[Tanja Knaus @KnausTanja]

I’m part of this amazing annual STS conference in Graz! #STSgraz2023 @IFZ_Graz - My talk will be part of the panel: AI-based decision support systems for medicine and healthcare! >> Talking about >voice biomarkers<. Looking forward the many contributions on AI!

[IFZ Graz @IFZ_Graz]

Looking forward meeting you (again) next Monday at our 21st Annual STS Conference Graz 2023, May 8 - 10 – Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies.
#STSgraz2023
The programme is packed with great STS talks, workshops and discussions:
https://t.co/ZNUk4J81WM

[YarD @Sskkooppiitt]

Come join us in Siegen on 24-26.5 for three days of discourse on language technologies!
@mediaofcoop

[UiO – TIK-senteret @TIK_senteret]

Applications are very welcome until 11 April! 🗓️ ⬇️

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

Ugh -- I'm seeing a lot of commentary along the lines of "'stochastic parrot' might have been an okay characterization of previous models, but GPT-4 actually is intelligent."

Spoiler alert: It's not. Also, stop being so credulous.

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[UiO – TIK-senteret @TIK_senteret]

The 6th Nordic STS Conference takes place @unioslo_UB 7 - 9 june 2023.

Abstract submission is now open! Deadline 1 March 2023 🗓️

https://t.co/44g39g8sY3

#nordicsts2023
Foto: UiO/Anders Lien

[Tanja Knaus @KnausTanja]

Call for abstracts for the panel “The Role of Numbers in Identification Practices” - organised by Baki Cakici, Frauke Rohden and myself @ the 6th Nordic STS Conference 2023, at @TIK_senteret, University of Oslo! The deadline is 1.March! https://t.co/Ulp3qv3xqF

[Tanja Knaus @KnausTanja]

These were some great days at the conference #infrastructures of #autonomy! Hope to see many of the contributors again!

[HIIG Berlin @hiig_berlin]

Today is the final day of our #international #conference “#Infrastructures of #Autonomy” w/ @BrandenburgZem. Thx to all the speakers and guests for your insightful contributions and lively discussions about autonomy in our #digital age. Highlights📸📸📸

[Tanja Knaus @KnausTanja]

Who gets to participate in the creation of new (robots) intelligent machines? - exhibition in Australia on how women radically reshape robotics.„We are on the brink of a new world of living with robots. But, as with any technology, what we make in turn remakes us.“

[Sydney Architecture, Design and Planning @Sydney_ADP]

A cross-disciplinary network of women working in and researching robotics has come together for the first exhibition of its kind in Australia.

SHErobots explores contemporary robotics through a feminist lens, asking who gets to participate in the creation of new robots, and how?

[Mosquito Capital @MosquitoCapital]

I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"

As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.