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What is AI, and why is it harmful? What is AI, and why is it harmful?

https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world/p/2349418/what-is-ai-and-why-is-it-harmful-what-is-ai-and-why-is-it-harmful

What is AI, and why is it harmful? What is AI, and why is it harmful?

https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world/p/2349418/what-is-ai-and-why-is-it-harmful-what-is-ai-and-why-is-it-harmful

What is AI, and why is it harmful? What is AI, and why is it harmful?

https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world/p/2349418/what-is-ai-and-why-is-it-harmful-what-is-ai-and-why-is-it-harmful

What is AI, and why is it harmful? What is AI, and why is it harmful?

This talk serves to demystify and redefine AI in radical ways, as well as highlight how it can harm. We will touch on historical examples — and we will explore critical lenses, which can help us be thoughtful and careful in understanding what AI is and can do. Finally, some ways forwards will be discussed such that we can move towards a better present.

What is AI, and why is it harmful? What is AI, and why is it harmful?

https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world/p/2349418/what-is-ai-and-why-is-it-harmful-what-is-ai-and-why-is-it-harmful

I sometimes post some depressing takes on interaction with #academics here. Well, here's a bit more of a funny example.

#LLM use from a PhD, Dr. James Utley.

The fella took my friend's python code (which was generated with LLM, yeah I know) and re-LLM'd it to a terrible rust port. Which I think is fine, but the guy stripped out any attribution or DOI reference. The design, command, function and the name of the program was kept the same.

#bioinformatics

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcy1rWkJa86/?igsi=MTl1bDd1Z2JyeDZjaQ%3D%3D

I sometimes post some depressing takes on interaction with #academics here. Well, here's a bit more of a funny example.

#LLM use from a PhD, Dr. James Utley.

The fella took my friend's python code (which was generated with LLM, yeah I know) and re-LLM'd it to a terrible rust port. Which I think is fine, but the guy stripped out any attribution or DOI reference. The design, command, function and the name of the program was kept the same.

#bioinformatics

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcy1rWkJa86/?igsi=MTl1bDd1Z2JyeDZjaQ%3D%3D

I sometimes post some depressing takes on interaction with #academics here. Well, here's a bit more of a funny example.

#LLM use from a PhD, Dr. James Utley.

The fella took my friend's python code (which was generated with LLM, yeah I know) and re-LLM'd it to a terrible rust port. Which I think is fine, but the guy stripped out any attribution or DOI reference. The design, command, function and the name of the program was kept the same.

#bioinformatics

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcy1rWkJa86/?igsi=MTl1bDd1Z2JyeDZjaQ%3D%3D

I sometimes post some depressing takes on interaction with #academics here. Well, here's a bit more of a funny example.

#LLM use from a PhD, Dr. James Utley.

The fella took my friend's python code (which was generated with LLM, yeah I know) and re-LLM'd it to a terrible rust port. Which I think is fine, but the guy stripped out any attribution or DOI reference. The design, command, function and the name of the program was kept the same.

#bioinformatics

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcy1rWkJa86/?igsi=MTl1bDd1Z2JyeDZjaQ%3D%3D

I sometimes post some depressing takes on interaction with #academics here. Well, here's a bit more of a funny example.

#LLM use from a PhD, Dr. James Utley.

The fella took my friend's python code (which was generated with LLM, yeah I know) and re-LLM'd it to a terrible rust port. Which I think is fine, but the guy stripped out any attribution or DOI reference. The design, command, function and the name of the program was kept the same.

#bioinformatics

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcy1rWkJa86/?igsi=MTl1bDd1Z2JyeDZjaQ%3D%3D

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 📝📊 The #SAT was first administered to 8,000 students in June 1926, born from #WorldWarI #military I.Q. tests designed by #Princeton psychologist and eugenicist Carl Brigham.

Now taken by two million #students annually, fewer than 10% of U.S. #colleges require it for fall 2026 admissions, a shift accelerated by the #Covid #pandemic and long standing debates about what the test actually measures. The article traces the test’s #evolution from a tool that helped break into the old boys’ network of elite colleges to an #exam whose scores strongly correlate with family #income.

👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/100-years-ago-students-across-the-us-took-the-first-sat-today-relatively-few-colleges-require-the-test-where-is-it-headed-180988997/

#history #education #equity #meritocracy #publicschool #highschool #academics #policy #learning #criticalthinking #teaching

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/world-inequality-lab-equality-academics-planetary-survival. A #utopian #fantasy, delivered by Ivory Tower left-wing #academics, like Thomas #Piketty, who don't realise there is no saving our so-called #civilisation from the #revenge of #Gaia, or the remorseless #logic of #social #entropy. They will still be saying all can saved, even as the grand edifice of #global #technological #capitalism crashes down around their ears - but see: https://globaljusticeproject.wid.world/. For my response, see: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/gavz7_v1.

It's only shortly past 8 in the morning, but I need to #vent.
I just overheard a new #tenure track assistant #professor talk about how they got there.
In a nutshell, they haven't left the department since their master studies and stumbled into the tenure process by accident.

I am (kinda) happy for them, but I am also so incredibly fucking jealous!

I have switched not only university but country after every degree/job, so by now I live in country number 5 since starting by studies.
The longest I've been in the same country was during my #PhD plus pandemic and unemployment for over a year.

Especially older #academics don't seem to understand this, because whenever I mention any of this I encounter completely blank stares. Note, I'm in a department where most senior staff is local and celebrating 15-35+ years at the same employer.

I'm in my mid-30, I don't want to move every few years when my temporary contract ends.
I want to be able to plan more than 1-2 years at a time.

I absolutely love doing #research, but I hate so many aspects of #academic culture or what has been normalized over the years for #AcademicLife.
I plan on staying in #academia despite of it.

#Rant over, time to calm down and sip my tea.

#PostDocLife #PhDLife #academicchatter #MyLifeAsAnAcademic #AcademicMastodon #tenuretrack

UConn’s Alex Karaban named to NABC Honors Court

UConn men’s basketball redshirt senior Alex Karaban has earned a spot on the National Association of Basketba…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #NCAABasketball #academics #AlexKaraban #Basketball #collegebasketball #Connecticut #ctnews #economics #gpa #hartfordcourant #HonorsCourt #huskies #localnews #major #NABC #NCAA #Sports #student #studentathlete #uconn #uconnmen'sbasketball
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/16901/

UConn’s Alex Karaban named to NABC Honors Court

UConn men’s basketball redshirt senior Alex Karaban has earned a spot on the National Association of Basketba…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #NCAABasketball #academics #AlexKaraban #Basketball #collegebasketball #Connecticut #ctnews #economics #gpa #hartfordcourant #HonorsCourt #huskies #localnews #major #NABC #NCAA #Sports #student #studentathlete #uconn #uconnmen'sbasketball
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/16901/

UConn’s Alex Karaban named to NABC Honors Court

UConn men’s basketball redshirt senior Alex Karaban has earned a spot on the National Association of Basketba…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #NCAABasketball #academics #AlexKaraban #Basketball #collegebasketball #Connecticut #ctnews #economics #gpa #hartfordcourant #HonorsCourt #huskies #localnews #major #NABC #NCAA #Sports #student #studentathlete #uconn #uconnmen'sbasketball
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/16901/

More #academic #peerreview cheats🤦‍♂️
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"NUS paper was among 17 #research papers fr a # of countries found by #NikkeiAsia to contain te #hiddenprompt. Te report, pub'ed July 1, said te papers were linked to 14 universities, incl'g #Waseda, #KAIST, #PekingU, & U of #Washington & #Columbia. Most of te papers w te prompt were fr #computerscience field.. te misuse of AI tools by #academics is #unethical & unfair.. there cld be gaps in te research tt weren't addressed as a result of #AI #manipulation"

A quotation from Bill Watterson

CALVIN: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-02-11)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/4095/

#quote #quotes #quotation #academia #academics #clarity #jargon #logorrhea #obscurity #school #writing #thesis #assignment #termpaper #wordiness #miscommunication

The Invisible Hand: How #DarkMoney Is Inventing Prestige for #rightwing #Academics. The Academy of Sciences and Letters (AASL) sounds #prestigious, but is it really? #science #vaccines #pharma #trump #leoleonard #synthetic #prestige https://drbobmorris.substack.com/p/the-invisible-hand-how-dark-money #academia #research #science

"Here we combine genetic evidence and palaeoecological models to infer the geographic location that acted as the Hub for our species during the early phases of colonisation of Eurasia."

Vallini, L., Zampieri, C., Shoaee, M.J. et al. The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal. Nat Commun 15, 1882 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46161-7 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Research #DOI #Science #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Biology #Anthropology #BiologicalAnthropology #Genetics #Population #EvolutionaryGenetics #Palaeoclimate #Ancient #DNA #PopulationGenetics #Eurasia #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @anthropology @biology @science

"Here we use an ice core record from grounded ice at Skytrain Ice Rise to constrain the timing and speed of early Holocene ice sheet retreat."

Grieman, M.M., Nehrbass-Ahles, C., Hoffmann, H.M. et al. Abrupt Holocene ice loss due to thinning and ungrounding in the Weddell Sea Embayment. Nat. Geosci. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01375-8 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Geoscience #Science #STEM #Antarctic #Ice #Holocene #Palaeoclimate #Climate #Earth #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 "Hume saw Protestant theology—especially the more enthusiastic strains of English Puritanism—as having fortuitously shifted the landscape of political and economic sensibilities in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by affecting believers’ political, social, and economic psychologies."

Matson EW. HUME ON THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE RISE OF ENGLISH COMMERCIAL SPIRIT. Journal of the History of Economic Thought. Published online 2024:1-23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837223000585 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Study #DOI #History #Economics #HistoryOfEconomics #Philosophy #DavidHume #England #Europe #Protestantism #EarlyModern #Academia #Academic #Academics @philosophy @historyofeconomics @earlymodern

An ex-philosopher friend remarked to me yesterday that academics judging prestige and success by citation metrics incentivizes the same thing in slow-motion as social media algorithms judging success of content creators by engagement metrics, and it has thrown me into an existential crisis.

#philosophy #academia @academicchatter #publishing #academics #clout

"Here we employ a sample of ancient Near Eastern cities dated between about 6000 BC and AD 1000 using settled area as a proxy for city population and relate this to estimates of regional population and prevailing climate to examine their long-term relationship."

Lawrence D, Philip G, Hunt H, Snape-Kennedy L, Wilkinson TJ (2016) Long Term Population, City Size and Climate Trends in the Fertile Crescent: A First Approximation. PLOS ONE 11(3): e0152563. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152563 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Archaeology #Ancient #FertileCrescent #NearEast #Turkey #Population #Climate #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons

Barham, L., Duller, G.A.T., Candy, I. et al. Evidence for the earliest structural use of wood at least 476,000 years ago. Nature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06557-9 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Limnology #Palaeoclimate #Sedimentology #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons

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Máire Ní Mhaonaigh & Elizabeth M. Tyler (2021) The language of history-writing in the ninth century: an entangled approach, Journal of Medieval History, 47:4-5, 451-471, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2021.1972692 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Latin #Writing #Britain #Ireland #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics #C9th #9thCentury @histodon @histodons @medievodons

Intellectual prejudice regarding pre-colonial native tribes and #Mesoamerican cultures, in particular, is one of the greatest tragedies of modern academia. I can not understand how any educated person acting in good faith can believe that native tribes and cultures were anything less than the beautiful, vibrant, and industrious people that they were. The number of times I have seen archeological finds dismissed as 'not being possible' or because 'there must have been other factors at play' is wretched. I refuse to acknowledge these claims to be anything other than purposefully demeaning as it betrays the underlying thought that pre-colonial natives were nothing but savage cave people, which only strengthens colonial ideology...

#History #Academics #Archaology

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