Rishika M

4th yr undergrad @tvmiiser | Interested in everything sci and likes figuring things about the society at large
#CitiSci #EcoEvo #Math #Birdwatching #Moths

[Annie? Rauwerda? @anniierau]

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

[Dr Kishore Paknikar @kpaknikar]

A short reply to this Nature editorial: Of course, science needs humans.

No AI has yet become obsessed with an idea for 20 years, argued endlessly over tea, ignored conventional wisdom, made glorious mistakes, and accidentally changed the world.

[P. Sainath @PSainath_org]

Even by the standards of a country ranking 157 of 180 nations in the World Press Freedom Index, the reaction of the authorities to the ‘Cockroach Janata Party’ is beyond extraordinary. The public response to that imaginative prank should have signalled to them a deep discontent, even distress, among young people. Instead, as The Indian Express reported, it was framed as jeopardising the country’s ‘national security’ and ‘posing a threat to the sovereignty of India.’ Decades ago, the Malaysian lawyer and poet Cecil Rajendra wrote this brilliant poem that captures the idiocy of it better than any pompous editorialising could (not that our ‘mainstream’ media would dare do even that much).

[Chris Thorogood @thorogoodchris1]

To celebrate International Day for Biological Diversity, here is a collection of living things I have painted over the years, from across the tree of life:

[황조 @walk0327]

더 많이 있어

[황조 @walk0327]

새들의 작명을 사랑해...

[jörg shidmann @tranz_schubert]

2026 is the first year where i have not slipped up and written last year’s date even once. foreboding omen somewhat

[onion person @CantEverDie]

it’s so cool that the only use case for ai is to distort everyones perception of reality. this needs to be heavily regulated immediately, especially when a government can do this

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

I do *not* want an AI "summary" of an email, or a book, or a life. I do not want an AI summary of a winter sky, or my father's hands, or the hope in my child's eyes. I do not want an AI summary of the human heart, or the first little shiver of lust, or the long good work of love.

[Thorben Danke @sagaOptics]

As you like the pollen shots so much, here is a bunch of sunflower pollen on some hummingbird hawk moths wingscales.

[AshleyStevens @The_Acumen]

Another reason I refuse to use ChatGPT and AI is because I enjoy the elation and smug superiority I feel when I figure something out myself. I can’t explain how good it makes me feel. I’ll doubt myself, then prove myself wrong, and I like that feeling. I like the challenge.

[Rasputin @AnkitOArchives]

It’s not “elitism” to say people should be trained in the subject they’re pontificating about. It’s how disciplines work. You want to be taken seriously in history? Then get in the trenches: read, research, revise, be wrong, start again. That’s the job.

[Andreas Rocha @andreas_rocha]

With all the A.I. generated imagery out there, I would like to share some of the thoughts that go into a painting created by a human being...

[Kyle Kushblasta @SkinnyTuna]

remember that very brief period where google searches would autopopulate a summary from Wikipedia instead of having an AI automangle a summary from Wikipedia? that was nice

[SujÆ - சுஜெய் @sujays]

This is an extremely beautiful view. Add Chennai central to the mix and 3 beautiful buildings next to each other.

[Katherine Everitt 💥 @katherineveritt]

Ppl don’t know how ChatGPT works. It doesn’t “know” things. It autocompletes sentences. It makes things up.

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

My latest #TharoorThink column mounts a robust defence of the English language in India while rejecting the Macaulay mindset. We can use English to connect to the world while refusing to allow it to disconnect us from ourselves:

[maja 🔭🍒 @majamediaco]

reminds me of: the world is a museum of passion projects

[Chomba Bupe @ChombaBupe]

The systems that diagnose cancer don't need to "read" stories like Harry Potter, Ironman, copyrighted novels nor artwork.

Those types of systems must be calibrated specifically on cancer related data.