I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
A short blog post reflecting on an experience I've had lately: where students show up with a fully-formed solution to a problem I thought was still too difficult for them. What is AI doing to change the way we learn?
#machinelearning #LLMs
https://tedunderwood.com/2024/08/31/will-ai-make-us-overconfident/
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
It used to be a philosophical question for science fiction writers, but it's becoming a practical problem for designers. https://tedunderwood.com/2024/06/15/should-artificial-intelligence-be-person-shaped/
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
IMO Charlie Jane Anders
should get royalties on Apple Intelligence because the model of transparent AI — running mostly on mobile, quietly steering the user via reminders without ever quite becoming perceptible as a personality — is just a Caddy from All the Birds in the Sky.
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
Absolutely revelatory piece from Yoav Goldberg casting light on an overlooked puzzle about last year: why did we need *reinforcement* learning (RLHF) to unlock the potential of language models? Why wasn’t supervised learning enough? #LLM #AI https://gist.github.com/yoavg/6bff0fecd65950898eba1bb321cfbd81
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
Blog post comparing #GPT4 to other forms of text analysis. tl;dr: Yes, it's more accurate, but the real advantage is that it thinks out loud and can argue with you. #LLM #AI @dh@a.gup.pe https://tedunderwood.com/2023/03/19/using-gpt-4-to-measure-the-passage-of-time-in-fiction/
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
This whole post by @benmschmidt@vis.social is great, but this passage honestly should become *the* canonical way of thinking about #LLM and personality. It's better than the Shoggoth. https://benschmidt.org/post/2023-02-19-sydney/
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
Everyone knows when you meet the fay folk, you don't eat the food. Maybe we need a similar set of mores about AI? E.g., don't talk to a model about Jung and ask whether it has a "shadow self." Nothing good will come of that.
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
New article by Whitney Arnold & Corey Arnold topic-modeling The Monthly Review (1749-1844). @dh@a.gup.pe https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10509585.2022.2158460?needAccess=true
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
"Lena." A short story in the form of a Wikipedia entry from the future. By qntm. You need to be in a mood for pretty dark humor. https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
Hypothesis: #LLM are going to make the distinction between "distant" and "close" reading pretty much moot in 5 yrs, by a) reducing barriers to entry for large-scale analysis and b) making it possible to do fun and revealing computational things at a much smaller scale, even with slippery questions about character and plot. @dh@a.gup.pe
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
A round-up of academic opinion about how to respond to #ChatGPT. Includes @amills@mastodon.oeru.org, @pfyfe@hcommons.social, and me. #LLM https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/01/12/academic-experts-offer-advice-chatgpt
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
Got my first update from @quintsns@mastodon.uno. If you follow it, the bot summarizes links shared by people you follow. Might be nice if there were room for a title, but nbd. It does 80% of what I would want an algorithmic #timeline to do!
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
I use machine learning to study cultural history at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Also #generativeAI, #digitalhumanities, #sciencefiction, #computational #socialscience. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). #tfr #fedi22
