catherine stinson

maker of soft blinky things, aspirational cordwain, non-human primate enthusiast, AI apocalypse prevention operative

[catherine stinson @nerd_sighted]

fleeing this hellhole. find me on bluesky.

[catherine stinson @nerd_sighted]

Friends are always asking me "should I be afraid of AI yet?" Here's my answer: https://t.co/diqJTZBAcT

[catherine stinson @nerd_sighted]

@sofiephilosofie

[SFU School of Communication @sfuCMNS]

The School of Communication is inviting applications for a tenure-track professor position in Digital Publics & Promotional Cultures.

Full job details here: (https://t.co/kdmjZoAWB6)

Apply by October 2!

@FCATatSFU

[catherine stinson @nerd_sighted]

Used ChatGPT to write a grad school networking email to rip apart in a writing exercise for my students, and it produced exactly the kind of form letter I get hundreds of. A couple hours later one such letter showed up in my inbox and more than half was word for word identical.

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

Retweet this if you think the Ontario government should immediately reverse their cuts to healthcare for uninsured people. #Healthcare4All

[catherine stinson @nerd_sighted]

@davidchalmers42 Turing?

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

OpenAI may have tested GPT-4 on the training data: we found slam-dunk evidence that it memorizes coding problems that it's seen. Besides, exams don't tell us about real-world utility: It’s not like a lawyer’s job is to answer bar exam questions all day. https://t.co/lXSJgVA1iu

[catherine stinson @nerd_sighted]

Boring take: the main problem with the Chomsky ChatGPT opinion piece is that it’s so boring.

[catherine stinson @nerd_sighted]

@JuliaSerano A speech bubble of someone asking for directions

[catherine stinson @nerd_sighted]

LOL sob

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

And just like that, the hypothetical socially beneficial sci-fi use cases, so central to AI boosters' marketing, dissolve into air, leaving only the imperatives of capital.

[catherine stinson @nerd_sighted]

https://t.co/G8ETvt6yS0

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So happy to see this much needed resource launch! Thanks to Rohan Khan and @douglasmartin for doing the heavy lifting from @QueensComputing.

[catherine stinson @nerd_sighted]

@christapeterso Before becoming an annoying talking head his research was moving toward how to use Big 5 personality profiling to manipulate people / Haidt style pretending that liberals and conservatives have incommensurable values. My take is he decided to put it into practice and it worked.

[catherine stinson @nerd_sighted]

@vjoshuaadams This reminds me of the time my ex wore a v-neck backwards while giving a job talk.

[catherine stinson @nerd_sighted]

@David_Gunkel @OpenAI A few days ago I sent Barthes and Benjamin to computer science students to read. A wild time.

[catherine stinson @nerd_sighted]

Should I title my grant application What’s the DL on DL?

[catherine stinson @nerd_sighted]

@lisstless @therealrealTMZ If this is really happening, call me on my landline to tell me what time to show up.

[catherine stinson @nerd_sighted]

I’m re-reading fucking Benjamin because of an AI project. Walter, not Ruha.