blake perry smith

working on applied speech recognition and NLP/NLU
thinking about users, contexts, and privacy
🗯→🎙→📄→💡→🚀
speech recognition @Sonos

@[email protected]

[MMitchell @mmitchell_ai]

@Nature @timnitGebru It's a really terrible use of tech AI women's time, @Nature , to force us to band together and deal with erasure. We've also done it for @ruchowdh and @nytimes. Don't do this, please: instead, please don't erase.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

To be clear, at this time and for the foreseeable future, there does not exist any AI model or technique that could represent an extinction risk for humanity. Not even in nascent form, and not even if you extrapolate capabilities far into the future via scaling laws.

[Ameena L. Payne (she/her) @ameenalpayne]

“If something is being marginalized or stigmatized, we should bring that to the center of focus. Because if we're serving the most marginalized, then everybody is getting served.” — @ClemonsAris

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

@BernieSanders The move of anthropomorphizing "Sydney" or any other one of these "AIs" opens up room to displace that accountability. But accountability sits with corporations and the people that make them up.

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[BeatriceSavoldi @BeatriceSavoldi]

"Treating Speech as Personally Identifiable Information and Its Impact in Machine Translation" https://t.co/TGZygDFXvu

A useful, highly-accessible read on several privacy and security issues potentially raised by the use of speech technologies

@fbk_mt #pickoftheweek

[Deb Raji @rajiinio]

@yoavgo "Human-level" intelligence as a goal is strange though - there's many useful things humans are horrible at & computers already do better (eg memory/recall, numerical computation) + vice versa (eg emotional intelligence). AI goals should be oriented around solving real problems.

[blake perry smith @smithnlp]

guy on the street with baguette at 6am
guy on the street with baguette at 6pm

very different guys.

[blake perry smith @smithnlp]

@BeatriceSavoldi @samanthaa_rr @fbk_mt So good, thank you!

also cc'ing @marynurm, who might find this interesting based on their own related work

[blake perry smith @smithnlp]

~$ yes | eat aloo_gobi.sh --versus `ls options/*` ; sleep 43200

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

We can't have sensible discussions of so-called "AI" (incl adverse impacts of work done in its name) if we cede framing of the debate to those who see "AI" (or "AGI") as the overarching goal itself, rather than the building of tools that support human flourishing.

[blake perry smith @smithnlp]

uh oh

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

Why is "AI" the only thing we describe that way? No one says: This airplane has a superhuman flying ability! This jackhammer has a superhuman pounding ability! This printer has a superhuman typing ability! This camera has a superhuman drawing ability!

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[blake perry smith @smithnlp]

@tjmahr @kalizoy maybe would? 👀🙃

[blake perry smith @smithnlp]

@Prism_Metanews à la @planetmoney

https://t.co/QQuLRthULw

[NPR's Planet Money @planetmoney]

What's the tax code trying to tell us?
https://t.co/0f3UupLNja

[Alice Coucke @alicecoucke]

... and we're live today! @Sonos Voice Control is now available in en-US 🥳🤩🙀💙

[blake perry smith @smithnlp]

aaand here's what we've been working on! privacy-first, embedded voice control on Sonos speakers 📻🌝🎶
https://t.co/aM7dueQGhq

[blake perry smith @smithnlp]

@jeffbigham hard. I'll just pass along these resources here by @Prism_Metanews, in case they might be useful.

https://t.co/tXOtB1lPCy

[blake perry smith @smithnlp]

who wants to build this with me?

[Edin Kapić / Един Капић 🦋 @edinkapic.com @ekapic]

There are several myths regarding raising children in more than one language.

My son is 4 years old.

We live in Barcelona. He's surrounded by Spanish and Catalan language. Yet, he speaks Bosnian like I do.

This is what I discovered about raising a multilingual child:

👇🧵

[blake perry smith @smithnlp]

interesting thread on the role of jargon and technobabble in signaling membership and status in online communities 🗯️

[Prism Metanews (prism-metanews.bsky.social) @Prism_Metanews]

Not timely, but hopefully will still be of use. It’s the recap of Misinfo Meetup #7, “Shibboleths of Online Communities,” from 15 February. 🤓

Esteemed panelists: @FoldableHuman @laura_greenaura @coolfacejane @dappergander @QOrigins @PokerPolitics

Thank you all!