peggy weil

[peggy weil @peggyweil]

currently 20,438 acres

[Arash Markazi @ArashMarkazi]

To put the size of the Palisades fire into perspective:

- Manhattan, New York City is 14,604 acres.

- Palisades fire so far has burned 17.234 acres.

[peggy weil @peggyweil]

@GaryMarcus ergo: if/ since AI sucks at outliers, humans (and the world) should just conform to the world reflected in the existing data sets

[Mark C Marino markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino]

Team ELIZA discusses our code findings in the Weizenbaum Institute's Centenary symposium tomorrow! @peggyweil
@berrydm @JWI_Berlin

https://t.co/YrNOz7osBX

[peggy weil @peggyweil]

@USGS_ShakeAlert @MyShakeApp @Cal_OES @BerkeleySeismo Terrible messaging:
Rewrite:
We APOLOGIZE that, due to an error in time zone settings, we issued a false alert at 3:19AM.
We PROMISE to make internal changes to prevent this mistake from happening again.

[Mark C Marino markcmarino.bsky.social @markcmarino]

Come hear what we have found in the source code of ELIZA, Wed. at MIT 4-6pm. Jeff Shrager, Dave Berry, Anthony Hay, Peggy Weil, Art Schwarz with Sarah Ciston, and Peter McMillan #critcode #teameliza

https://t.co/SMJYk1W9JD

@peggyweil @berrydm
@SarahCiston

[peggy weil @peggyweil]

Inspiration for The Blurring Test: Songs of MrMind --
listening to a Weizenbaum lecture at MIT in 1981. Today's issues with AI are not new issues.

#mrmind #theblurringtest

https://t.co/ydwCokyR5r

[peggy weil @peggyweil]

Revisiting an article I wrote in 2017 - the inspiration for UNSUNG! Songs of the Missileers

[Places Journal @PlacesJournal]

“The geography of nuclear warfare mirrors the darker corners of our souls. We don’t want to go there,” @peggyweil wrote in 2017 after touring an inactive missile site.

The story of nuclear weapons doesn’t end with Oppenheimer. A must-read during previews:
https://t.co/tNYLiYb4mk

[peggy weil @peggyweil]

https://t.co/G22VqPs6Je #underscape #expandedlandscape

[peggy weil @peggyweil]

@theblurringtest transcript 1998 #AI #mrmind

MrMind: What is the difference between you and me?
User: your over there and Im over here
MrMind: Do you think there should be limits on digital technology?
User: as long as you remain in your side of the monitor i don't care

[Mt. St. Helens @MtStHelensWA]

Wasn’t me

[Ellie Anderson @ellieanderphd]

AI and the Arts conference yesterday at CSULA was fantastic. Here’s @TheUniverse talking about how worries about generalized superintelligence ruining the world are a red herring that obscure the ways AI is actually serving power, w Sheila Heti, @peggyweil, + Foad Dizadji-Bahmani

[peggy weil @peggyweil]

We don't need late night comedy/satire writers, this is the actual news: "The suspect, identified as Francisco Oropesa, was caught in Cut and Shoot, Tex.," https://t.co/yV6BZPG7I7

[peggy weil @peggyweil]

@jerrysaltz #MrMind asks “what does it mean when we act as if a computer is thinking” #the blurringtest.

[peggy weil @peggyweil]

Will be on a panel: AI & The Arts at CalState LA with
@theuniverse and Shelia Heti #mrmind #theblurringtest https://t.co/e5C6Ifla6m

[peggy weil @peggyweil]

@howardrodman @AcademyMuseum Great program

[peggy weil @peggyweil]

@flantz Thx for link! Come see The Blurring Test: Songs of MrMind Premiere 3/12/23 Roulette Intermedium Brooklyn Song-cycle based on 16 yrs of people telling my chatbot what makes them human.
I AM A BOT ALL BOTS ARE LIARS

[peggy weil @peggyweil]

@StephenPiment If you go back to the seventies, consider revisiting the rejection of Weizenbaum’s (creator of ELIZA, the first chatbot) critique on f AI “Computer Power and Human Reason” from 1976.

[peggy weil @peggyweil]

PREMIERE Sunday March 12, 2023
The Blurring Test: Songs of MrMind
Based on MrMind's chat logs beginning 1998 - 16 years of people telling my computer program what makes us human.
WHY ARE YOU TALKING TO A MACHINE
#TheBlurringTest @varispeedcollective
@roulette_intermedium

[peggy weil @peggyweil]

@blprnt Although for a birder….