The concept of being “left behind” if you don’t use AI when in reality the AI bubble will burst eventually and the people who have had their brains smoothed out by AI are the ones who won’t know how to function in society anymore
The internet used to be full of websites; there were millions of them and you could browse for hours and come away smarter rather than dumber. Now there are four sites and they've made half the population illiterate. We've destroyed a wonderful thing, and it has destroyed us.
PSA: Please, for the love of science, do NOT use AI to generate your paper figures. Regardless of the quality of the underlying paper, an AI-generated diagram conveys sloppy thinking and causes readers to mistrust your research entirely.
I was listening to a neuroscientist talk about AI and human behavior, and he mentioned studies showing that when people let AI make decisions for them, they feel less morally responsible for the outcome.
That genuinely stopped me cold.
more importantly, i’m tired of how mean the average person has become. no kindness or grace, no openness or understanding. just this weird consistent cruelty & uppity response to everyone
Google is trying to kill the website by essentially stealing website content and pretending it's their own by obfuscating it through their AI results
We really need legislation that will defend against this kind of abusive AI behavior
Editing your genAI paper is just not worth my time, labor, or expertise. I hope that scholars wholeheartedly agree to simply stop peer reviewing papers that use genAI, stop providing line edits, stop engaging with content edits. You could not pay me enough to edit a bot
One of the painful lessons that LLMs have taught me is that apparently many researchers have very little integrity. They do not hold themselves to professional ethical standards as scholars. My bad, as it turns out.
The LIRR strike really is a litmus test for who is and isn’t pro labor bc a lot of yall seem to think middle class workers shouldn’t be allowed to ask for cost of living increases since they’re not poor
Yeah I’m sorry but this isn’t a fight between the middle class who ride the LIRR and the middle class who make $100k working for the LIRR, no matter how much you try to pit us against each other.
Tax your billionaire and multimillionaire donors to fund the MTA.
Like many of you, I am disgusted with people using AI to write any kind of text, but I am even more annoyed to see educated people, with doctoral degrees, well-paid tenured faculty positions, who allegedly have two brain cells, using AI to created ugly, pathetic visual images.
No shit. Of course this subscription based, high energy, high waste, high material cost, mining dependent, publicly unpopular, market shrinking, high maintenance, dysfunctional technology is more expensive than paying people decent wages for a limited hrs of work
Generative AI is not needed. Not for accessibility or any other reason! Stop using disabled people as an excuse to push GenAI! You don't actually care about us. Many disabled people find ways to create art! We don't need to rely on a tool that steals from other creators!!!
i feel very strongly, and have always felt, that New York City is full of extraordinarily kind people who are actively looking out for each other and who will help you if it is in their power to do so
Some branches of neuroscience (and science in general) are unlikely to see real progress for a long time. This stagnation stems from an academic echo chamber that very effectively silences dissent. young researchers introducing new ideas are often marginalized or driven out before they can establish themselves. There must be quite a few of these people who left academia this way and are now working in industry. The current institutional framework simply won't fund or validate anyone bold enough to challenge entrenched ideas. It's a conformist paradise gated by tenure. BTW these stagnant areas tend to have dominant senior people who have never been wrong and shall remain "authorities" forever.
NU had the police take Dr. Wu out of her office in cuffs, straight to the hospital, where they told her she could admit herself voluntarily or they would admit her involuntarily. In the facility, she wrote a will and testament and then she killed a few weeks after being released