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MichaChrist, 5 days ago to random German

Hier hätten Brennstoffzellenzüge fahren sollen. Doch die technologieoffene Ausschreibung ergab, dass Batteriezüge wirtschaftlicher sind. Der Markt regelt, liebe FDP.
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/suedbaden/ortenaukreis-erster-batterie-zug-startet-betrieb-100.html

pluralistic, 27 days ago to ai

> I find my feelings about #AI are actually pretty similar to my feelings about #blockchains: they do a poor job of much of what people try to do with them, they can't do the things their creators claim they one day might, and many of the things they are well suited to do may not be altogether that beneficial. And while I do think that AI tools are more broadly useful than blockchains, they also come with similarly monstrous costs.

• @molly0xfff

https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless-2/

simon, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

ChatGPT is now available for anyone to try for free without even creating an account - in an undocumented set of regions (works for me in California) https://openai.com/blog/start-using-chatgpt-instantly

It's the GPT-3.5 version, which is prone to all sorts of mistakes and hallucinations - further strengthening the pattern where most people form their impressions of what this stuff can and can't be useful for through access to the weaker models

SheDrivesMobility, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random German

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easysociology, 1 month ago to Sociology

Educational Outcomes for Children in the UK Based on Class

https://buff.ly/3UCG8py
#sociology
@sociology
@academicchatter
@academicsunite

danilo, 1 month ago to random

tangential to but inspired by the OP: I think the way we address the Masto Reply Guy Infestation is make an absolutely clear shared reality that the replies are the Thunderdome and the best way not to get rocked is not to enter
https://mastodon.social/@lzg/112128990197661962

below, 2 months ago to random German

@RA_Negm Kennst Du Dich mit dem EU DMA aus? Bin ich ein „Händler“ für meinen persönlichen Apple Account?

ICalzada, 2 months ago to web3

🚀Thrilled to share my latest article in journal '#BigData and #CognitiveComputing' #Q1 #ImpactFactor 3.7 #CiteScore 4.9!

"Democratic Erosion of #DataOpolies:
#Decentralized #Web3 Technological Paradigm Shift Amidst #AI Disruption"

💡Dive into the future of #DataSovereignty #DigitalDemocracy

📘https://mdpi.com/2504-2289/8/3/26

@digitalhumanities @digigeolab @DigitalEU @DialoguesHG @geography @anthropology @economics @sociology @politicalscience @politicaltheory

Zeugs, 2 months ago to mastodon

What are #Mastodon plans for making switching instances easier or capsuling user data? This is imho the main advantage of #Bluesky. The mayor flaw on Bluesky architecture in my opinion is if the crawler will actually visit your profile often enough to keep up with the pace of the general social Network.

SenseException, 2 months ago to ChatGPT German

#ChatGPT did some weird sentences yesterday in the evening. For no reason it told that, "once the cheese melts, the toast will appear".

The news of its recent weird behavior isn't gone yet. I wish I could see some of these results in business cases. 😄
#AI #silverbullet

isotopp, 2 months ago to random German

https://www.heise.de/news/Google-pausiert-Gemini-Bildgenerierung-von-Menschen-nach-Ungenauigkeiten-der-KI-9636350.html

"Google hat die Fähigkeit seines KI-Chatbots Gemini zur Generierung von Bildern mit Menschen vorerst ausgesetzt. Zuvor hatte die Künstliche Intelligenz nach Nutzeranfragen Bilder mit eklatanten historischen Ungenauigkeiten produziert."

Das sind keine "Ungenauigkeiten" und es ist auch kein Problem mit den Daten, sondern mit dem Prompt.

Also, mit dem ganzen Prompt, nicht mit dem Prompt, den ihr eingebt.

FractalEcho, 2 months ago to ChatGPT

The racism in chatGPT we are not talking about....

This year, I learned that students use chatGPT because they believe it helps them sound more respectable. And I learned that it absolutely does not work. A thread.

A few weeks ago, I was working on a paper with one of my RAs. I have permission from them to share this story. They had done the research and the draft. I was to come in and make minor edits, clarify the method, add some background literature, and we were to refine the discussion together.

The draft was incomprehensible. Whole paragraphs were vague, repetitive, and bewildering. It was like listening to a politician. I could not edit it. I had to rewrite nearly every section. We were on a tight deadline, and I was struggling to articulate what was wrong and how the student could fix it, so I sent them on to further sections while I cleaned up ... this.

As I edited, I had to keep my mind from wandering. I had written with this student before, and this was not normal. I usually did some light edits for phrasing, though sometimes with major restructuring.

I was worried about my student. They had been going through some complicated domestic issues. They were disabled. They'd had a prior head injury. They had done excellent on their prelims, which of course I couldn't edit for them. What was going on!?

We were co-writing the day before the deadline. I could tell they were struggling with how much I had to rewrite. I tried to be encouraging and remind them that this was their research project and they had done all of the interviews and analysis. And they were doing great.

In fact, the qualitative write-up they had done the night before was better, and I was back to just adjusting minor grammar and structure. I complimented their new work and noted it was different from the other parts of the draft that I had struggled to edit.

Quietly, they asked, "is it okay to use chatGPT to fix sentences to make you sound more white?"

"... is... is that what you did with the earlier draft?"

They had, a few sentences at a time, completely ruined their own work, and they couldnt tell, because they believed that the chatGPT output had to be better writing. Because it sounded smarter. It sounded fluent. It seemed fluent. But it was nonsense!

I nearly cried with relief. I told them I had been so worried. I was going to check in with them when we were done, because I could not figure out what was wrong. I showed them the clear differences between their raw drafting and their "corrected" draft.

I told them that I believed in them. They do great work. When I asked them why they felt they had to do that, they told me that another faculty member had told the class that they should use it to make their papers better, and that he and his RAs were doing it.

The student also told me that in therapy, their therapist had been misunderstanding them, blaming them, and denying that these misunderstandings were because of a language barrier.

They felt that they were so bad at communicating, because of their language, and their culture, and their head injury, that they would never be a good scholar. They thought they had to use chatGPT to make them sound like an American, or they would never get a job.

They also told me that when they used chatGPT to help them write emails, they got more responses, which helped them with research recruitment.

I've heard this from other students too. That faculty only respond to their emails when they use chatGPT. The great irony of my viral autistic email thread was always that had I actually used AI to write it, I would have sounded decidedly less robotic.

ChatGPT is probably pretty good at spitting out the meaningless pleasantries that people associate with respectability. But it's terrible at making coherent, complex, academic arguments!

Last semester, I gave my graduate students an assignment. They were to read some reports on labor exploitation and environmental impact of chatGPT and other language models. Then they were to write a reflection on why they have used chatGPT in the past, and how they might chose to use it in the future.

I told them I would not be policing their LLM use. But I wanted them to know things about it they were unlikely to know, and I warned them about the ways that using an LLM could cause them to submit inadequate work (incoherent methods and fake references, for example).

In their reflections, many international students reported that they used chatGPT to help them correct grammar, and to make their writing "more polished".

I was sad that so many students seemed to be relying on chatGPT to make them feel more confident in their writing, because I felt that the real problem was faculty attitudes toward multilingual scholars.

I have worked with a number of graduate international students who are told by other faculty that their writing is "bad", or are given bad grades for writing that is reflective of English as a second language, but still clearly demonstrates comprehension of the subject matter.

I believe that written communication is important. However, I also believe in focused feedback. As a professor of design, I am grading people's ability to demonstrate that they understand concepts and can apply them in design research and then communicate that process to me.

I do not require that communication to read like a first language student, when I am perfectly capable of understanding the intent. When I am confused about meaning, I suggest clarifying edits.

I can speak and write in one language with competence. How dare I punish international students for their bravery? Fixation on normative communication chronically suppresses their grades and their confidence. And, most importantly, it doesn't improve their language skills!

If I were teaching rhetoric and comp it might be different. But not THAT different. I'm a scholar of neurodivergent and Mad rhetorics. I can't in good conscious support Divergent rhetorics while supressing transnational rhetoric!

Anyway, if you want your students to stop using chatGPT then stop being racist and ableist when you grade.

#chatGPT #LLM #academic #graduateStudents #internationalStudents #ESL

arstechnica, 3 months ago to random

Vandals set fire to Waymo car during Lunar New Year celebration

An autonomous Waymo met an untimely end thanks to an unruly mob.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/vandals-set-fire-to-waymo-car-during-lunar-new-year-celebration/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

prefec2, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random German

500 Bauern demonstrieren am frankfurter Flughafen. Das sind natürlich News aber die Tausenden, die gegen #Nazis demonstriert haben sind keine News. Dafür aber #noafd Chrupalla.

Ja die geplanten großen Demos am WE sind Thema.

Aber kleine Proteste mit 500 Teilnehmern der Bauern sind News, aber 4000 in einer Kleinstadt nicht. Damit erzeugt man eine Aufmerksamkeitsverschiebung. Für Leserinnen oder Zuhörer wird damit Bauern und Großdemo gleich wichtig.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/bauern-demonstrieren-am-flughafen-frankfurt-100.html

#DLF

john, 3 months ago to ai

I've decided to turn the tables on #AI. It gives me the prompts, I paint the pictures. They are painted as quickly as I can. I'm still a little bit slower than most online generators, but perhaps with enough VC backing I can improve performance.

I used my local LLM which is a Mistral derivative (if you care about this stuff!).

So, I asked it to give me prompts, and it gave me back some d33p artistic ideas (prompts are the alt text).

Final image compares DALL-E attempts.

#art

Amidst a field of wildflowers in full bloom stands a towering structure that seems to defy all laws of nature. Its angles are sharp and unforgiving, its surfaces gleaming and reflective like polished steel. Yet despite its futuristic appearance, this edifice is grounded by the very earth it stands upon; roots winding their way deep into the soil, inextricably linking man-made structure to natural landscape. This image represents the tension between progress and preservation, a call for us to find harmony where they meet, rather than let them stand as opposing forces.
As an artist envisioning a complex tableau, I seek to create a visual metaphor that speaks to the dual nature of human existence – our inner turmoil and external serenity. The scene is set at twilight, where the last rays of the sun meet the onset of night in a symphony of colors, blending the boundaries between day and night. At the center stands a colossal, ancient tree, its roots deeply entrenched in the earth, symbolizing our connection to nature and our foundational beliefs. The tree's branches stretch upwards and outwards, bifurcating into intricate patterns that mirror the complexity of human thoughts and emotions. Half of the tree is lush and blooming, covered in verdant leaves and vibrant flowers, teeming with birds and wildlife, representing the vitality of life and the beauty of outward expressions. The other half, however, is starkly different, with gnarled branches, devoid of foliage, whispering of the silent struggles and the decay that lurks within. This dichotomy illustrates the contrasting aspects of our lives – the visible joy and the hidden sorrows. Beneath the tree, a serene pond reflects this duality, not just as a mirror image, but with a surreal twist. The reflection shows the tree in full bloom on the barren side, and vice versa, suggesting that what we see on the surface is not always the reality. The visual style for this image will be inspired by the Pointillism technique, [...]
A composite of the last three images, with versions by DALL-E. The DALL-E images are considerably slicker, but quite saccharine.

RickiTarr, 4 months ago to random

Could you be in an Open/Poly Relationship?

P.S. This is a place to discuss your own personal opinions about yourself and your choices, or ask earnest questions of others if they wish to answer. If you've come here to preach or degrade other's choices, that is a block from me.

lilithsaintcrow, 4 months ago to random

“‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says.”

Then fucking pay for it honestly or fucking perish, you fucking grifters.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-chatgpt-copyrighted-material-openai

georgetakei, 4 months ago to random

This feels like a Star Trek episode.