Probabilistic references and how to find them -
"AI Chatbots Are Poisoning Research Archives With Fake Citations"
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/
#ethics #artificialintelligence #research

Observation

Those most bullish on use of AI in authoring seem to define productivity in terms of generating papers, not ideas.

Those most bearish seems to define productivity in terms of ideas, not papers.

Those in between seem most focused on whether AI can help improve communication of ideas.

Why did our friends stop posting on social media?
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20250722-social-media-user-changes-kyle-chayka-katty-kay-interview
* Goodbye social networks, welcome television 📺
Social networks are not social anymore, and I think that classic platforms became ad and […]

Can neuroscientists decode memories solely from a map of synaptic connections?
| Five experts discuss the progress, possibilities and hurdles of decoding a “nontrivial” memory from an organism just by analyzing its brain connectivity patterns |
The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives […]

GitHub actions have GitHub consequences

RE: https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/115687744422583362

Growing up watching this movie, and all the Monty Python sketches, due to some Scottish and Irish relatives, I've never thought it could be blasphemous. I've also watched it on Italian TV in the past; now I wonder if they'll broadcast it […]

🤔 Do you delete posts? How often should I delete posts? And if there is a bridge to Bksy, does the post also disappear from there?
#mastodon

Something Strange Is Happening to the Fungus in Chernobyl
https://www.vice.com/en/article/something-strange-is-happening-to-the-fungus-in-chernobyl/

{The organism is Cladosporium sphaerospermum, a melanized fungus whose dark pigment might be doing a strange kind of work. Some researchers […]

I played a part in a biology experiment 😃

A student placed European dung beetles in a circular arena in the URANIA-Planetarium in Potsdam, and recorded the paths they walked under four different light conditions (no stars, stars, stars + Milky Way, and the […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]

As usual, nobody could have explained the problem with #ai better than an 84-year-old social democrat.

The problem with AI isn’t a technological one. The problem with AI is a political, social and economic one.

Means of productions aren’t bad because of what […]

[Original post on manganiello.eu]

I will ask chat GPT
I will boil the last of our drinking water
Salt the soil of the scrub-lands
Tear the pages from books and feed them to my fire

I will ask copilot
I will scramble your library
maim the faces of your favorite paintings
I will bury you in poor copies of your dreams

I will ask […]

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@manisha/115628208797903145

it has been an extremely good time and a labor of love to keep this small ship afloat together. I'm so proud to be one of the group of people that has chosen to hang around here. We never have had a firm "brand" or focus, and never […]