I loved talking to @npr.org's Meghna Chakrabarti for On Point this summer. They re-aired the interview this weekend if you're curious to give it a listen!
Link in comments.
* Arendt, Irigiray
How about some 20 minute Tiny Desk lectures on politics and History
Excellent new work out from my lab exemplifying how philosophy, cognitive science, and computer science must put their resources together in order to make headway on characterizing the capabilities of AI systems, especially when those capabilities are in a mentalistic idiom.
We are nearing capacity and the event date, and in addition to zeugma I have some free codes to offer. DM me in interested.
in the u.s., print and ebook: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... in canada from arsenal direct arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-.... and the week we hit the bestsellars: lithub.com/the-independ...
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Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. …
As tech companies have started blaming science fiction for their AI's shambolatry, it's time to face up to Melville's culpability for the Canvas hack.
It was a pleasure to host yesterday's @interintellect.bsky.social salon with @carissaveliz.bsky.social. The book is superb, an exemplary work of what we sweet summer children used to call a public intellectual.
Trying to think of which other paintings I would most want to see with this approach, not just obvious ones like "Guernica" etc. etc....
The theological arachnics she would have unleashed on the name, message, and prophesying of Anthropic appearing at a joint press conference about a papal encyclical...
My Adam Curtis doc would note she passed away in 2010, the year of the first ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge...
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Thomas Arnold
Do LLMs *understand* language? Do educational AI agents *understand* the material they teach (or their students)? Claims about what AI systems do or don't understand are pervasive, but assessing them requires an account of MACHINE UNDERSTANDING
Thomas Arnold
Thomas Arnold
Thomas Arnold
Looking forward to this book and the May @interintellect.bsky.social salon discussing it.
Why yes I am using AI* to write my book
*Amazing Information
DHS was originally conceived in the interest of unity and harmony — and the phrase "homeland security" was originally meant to be reassuring. n.pr/4nOx8KP
Thomas Arnold
...often acting as the avatars of hidden (or not so hidden) power. Written with verve, acuity, and humour, this is essential reading for the times we live in.” To pre-order the #book: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...
Tania Lombrozo
DHS was originally conceived in the interest of unity and harmony — and the phrase "homeland security" was originally meant to be reassuring.
From an award-winning University of Oxford professor comes a brilliant, urgent new look at prophecies—the predictions that determine our lives, from our personal finances and the quality of our health...
