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🎃 🧟 Prof. Dr Beth Singler 👻 🎃

@bvlsingler.bsky.social

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Anthropologist/Geek thinking about how you think about AI & robots. Assistant Professor in Digital Religions at UZH. Bvlsingler.com. She/her. 🌈 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003256113/religion-artificial-intelligence-beth-singler

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🎃 🧟 Prof. Dr Beth Singler 👻 🎃 @bvlsingler.bsky.social · Aug 15

I will never stop banging this drum! 🥁 There 🥁 is 🥁 no 🥁 AI 🥁 in 🥁 the 🥁 predictive 🥁 policing 🥁 in 🥁 Minority 🥁 Report!

Its three psychics in a paddling pool!!

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2h

How to tell a video is AI

www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell
www.instagram.com/bydrewharwell/

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 7h

The fact that everyone totally ignores C3PO when he says stuff like this makes a lot more sense if you think of him as a ChatGPT type computer who just says plausible sounding sentences without any real analysis behind them.

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Joe Thompson @kensey.bsky.social · 3d

I'm constantly reminded these days that people frequently insisted the Eliza chatbot *must* have some form of sentience to display such insight.

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esouthard @esouthard.bsky.social · 9h

Also, “if there’s words, they were produced by a mind” is a hard instinct to break

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🎃 🧟 Prof. Dr Beth Singler 👻 🎃 @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 8h

I have a journal article coming out that discusses a specific example of some GenAI professors and I am not so scared for my job as for the whole damn epistemic network!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 8h

That's because they're fucking idiots, there is literally no other explanation

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 9h

Humans evolved a cognitive 'social proof' system for establishing what's true (if enough of the people around me believe something, I'll go along) and media fragmentation + social media has completely and totally hijacked it

Feels like AI will only make this worse

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 9h

"no in the future people will cryptographically verify what's true and-" no they will not. People are fucking stupid.

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 8h

A key question for the AI industry will be whether energy consumers see data centres as just infrastructure for their digital lives or an unnecessary indulgence for new AI

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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🎃 🧟 Prof. Dr Beth Singler 👻 🎃 @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 14h

Hmmm interesting. Well, lets see...

🎃 🧟 Prof. Dr Beth Singler 👻 🎃 @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 15h

I walked into the lounge last night to find my teenage son watching this. We have long admired @kurzgesagt.org and found their videos to be extremely illuminating. But this one in particular I think is so important right now!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN...

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

www.youtube.com

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 1d

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Matt the outlaw
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Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing much @ppfideas.bsky.social

www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the...

The History of Bad Ideas: Nobel Prizes

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 21h

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 16h

AI is reshaping work faster than universities, employers, or governments can adapt.

In this intergenerational conversation, I talk with my son Tom about how artificial intelligence has destroyed the old promise: work hard, get good grades, and you’ll get a good job.

youtu.be/tKw-U_fMHbs?...

AI is killing the graduate job — now what?

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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🎃 🧟 Prof. Dr Beth Singler 👻 🎃 @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 16h

The annoyance of finding a Leto in your Tron

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21h

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 18h

But wait, there's more!
The job is for "Behaviour Research Scientist"! 🤣

Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 18h

🤮
"How to Apply:

To apply for this job speak to Jack, the world's first AI recruiter.

Step 1. Visit our homepage. Link is available in the listing.

Step 2. Click 'Speak with Jack'."
🤮

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 1d

Dear [Author],

Your book [Title] is wonderful. I had painful urination and blood in my urine for years, until I read [Title] and now there is a clear golden stream.

[Title] deserves a wider readership. My team of 5,000 cyber-turtles can post honest reviews and raise your Zoob ranking, for a modest

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Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 1d

Boy, did she miss the point!

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Ghostbusters (1984) @ghostbusters1984.bsky.social · 1d

The Destructor will come, the Traveler!

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Sandra Kelly @2020willbelit.bsky.social · 2d

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

This is happening. Musk's lawyers tried to say his statements about Autopilot might have been deepfaked, in a case he settled almost as soon as the judge stopped laughing

www.reuters.com/legal/elon-o...

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 1d

need this to boost planetary morale

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Open to ‘Bill & Ted 4’ After Reuniting on Broadway

Takeaways from Variety's Business of Broadway Breakfast.

variety.com

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 2d

Step 1. Back into business model accidentally or steal one (cabs, food delivery, etc.)

Step 2. Venture capital

Step 3. Billionaire

Step 4. Write mission statement retroactively about how all of this was a plan to make the world a better place

Step 5. Make world worse place

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