It doesn't really matter whether it thinks, or feels, or whether it is just a parrot--at a certain point it matters what the parrot can do that affects the material world and we're clearly at the point where that capacity is extremely meaningful
More than 400 years of history and a decade of advocacy were torn down Thursday afternoon when National Park Service employees removed every single display at the President’s House.
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AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | Deregulation Mirage, Bringing AI to Life, Worsening Inequality, Needing Safety Research More Than Ever, Emissions, Reclaiming Moral Agency, Of the People - By the Algorithm, Algorithmic Fairness, + More mailchi.mp/2922c921e590...
Jeff Bezos’ new AI venture Project Prometheus has reportedly acquired the agentic-computing startup General Agents, strengthening its push into next-generation AI systems. One more sign that the race for agentic architectures is accelerating fast.
#AI #AgenticAI #TechStrategy
AI is no longer just a software feature – it has become infrastructure, geopolitics, and society.
Whoever controls chips, clouds, data, and standards will control the future.
Europe must act now to build digital sovereignty.
#DigitalSovereignty #HybridAI #Geopolitics
New open journal from AACE: AI-Enhanced Learning (with a paper from me)
The Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education and Learning (AIEL), a diamond open-access journal published under the auspices of AACE and distributed worldwide through LearnTechLib has just launched its inaugural issue,…
"The future of teaching and learning is not about keeping up with machines, but about using them to become more deeply and distinctively human." The AI Tsunami Is Here: Reinventing Education for the Age of AI by Tanya Gamby, David Kil, Rachel Koblic, Paul LeBlanc, George Siemens and Mihnea Moldoveneau EDUCAUSE Review
In the age of AI, higher ed must move beyond content delivery toward interactionalism—a human-centered approach that fosters collaboration, creativity, adaptability, feedback, & well-being. This EDUCAUSE Review series will explore that in-depth, beginning with teaching & learning.
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I don’t give a shit about being blocked, I wish more people would block or mute me. What I wish people would do is actually understand what kinds of AI critique would be effective, and it starts with engaging with the actual people in their lives who use these tools today. But people refuse to.
alert saying "@auska.esq has added you to the "Al Apologists" moderation list"
this is the really ineffective head-in-the-sand reaction a lot of folks on Bluesky tend to have if you talk about any harm reduction-based approach to the reality that millions of people are using AI tools today. The current approach to critiquing AI is obviously not working, but they don't care.
Provocative
No one escapes AI
This model scores very well in the image editing lmarena leaderboard, with a large gap of ~170 points to the next group of models.
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www.openevidence.com/announcement...
OpenEvidence developed a new AI system that accurately answers each question + also teaches the reasoning behind each answer, providing accurate references using gold-standard sources of medical knowledge.
Some of the anti-AI stuff feels a bit like when people would say "don't use Wikipedia as a source." It's just like anything else, a piece of information that you weigh against multiple sources and your own understanding of its likely failure modes
“Can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Does Gemini deserve human rights?” our tech columnist asks. “Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close. But I was intrigued.”
Deepseek could be an extinction-level event for some venture capital firms," per Axios
Yea to be clear there is no confirmation of how much Deepseek cost to train beyond "trust me" but I am really enjoying the generative ai perverts squealing about it
I think GANs are going to come back in a big way in 2025, but with a twist. History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.
