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Kevin P. Taylor

@ktaylor.bsky.social

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Prof. researching early-stage founder positive and negative outcomes from #entrepreneurship. Previously built software and startups. Wellbeing, emotion, motives, impression management #rstats #css #compsocsci #stats #ML https://founderscholar.com

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Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor.bsky.social · Jan 10

In my latest paper published this month (with my amazing co-authors not on bsky), we examined the effects of extraverted behavior on trust in a crowdfunding context.

Available here: jsbs.scholasticahq.com/article/1240...

The Power of a Smile: The Use of Smiles and Adjectives in Crowdfunding Social Media | Published in Journal of Small Business Strategy

By Kevin P. Taylor, Jennifer D. Golden & 3 more. ...

jsbs.scholasticahq.com

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Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor.bsky.social · 15h

Nicely done

Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor.bsky.social · 2d

I was doing a search on YouTube for content for an upcoming class session. The results were riddled with AI garbage. We need an “authentic human” filter now on any search screen.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 4d

I’m not anti-AI.

I am, however, anti the rapacious tech bros who selfishly hype AI for the purpose of increasing their wealth and power at the expense of our humanity.

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Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor.bsky.social · 5d

But it’s fast.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 5d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor.bsky.social · 5d

Own goal.

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 9d

honestly this could be a good thing

SkynetAndChill.com @skynetandchill.com · 9d

MrBeast says AI content slop threatens man-made content slop

MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it 'scary times' for the industry | TechCrunch

If MrBeast is openly questioning whether AI is an existential threat to his business and others like it, then it's fair to say that smaller creators are likely even more worried.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 10d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Ryan Lei @ryanlei.bsky.social · 10d

So, if you have new lines of work that are not exactly your "main line" that you're known for, how might you get opportunities to give talks about it and get feedback (besides publishing and hoping people see it, which can be slow)?

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Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor.bsky.social · 11d

A thoughtful piece comparing the current AI wave to previous EdTech waves such as the internet and cellphones.

tl;dr we all need some humility as the answers to all our questions are likely 10 years away.

theconversation.com/what-past-ed...

How to improve Eurovision

Every year, the Eurovision Song Contest brings the continent to its knees, begging for mercy. Moreover, rather like UEFA Champions League soccer, this is a European competition that generates a global...

theconversation.com

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12d

Think of the economy as like baking a cake. H‑1B visas supply missing ingredients -- high skill STEM workers. If Trump cuts off access: fewer projects get baked, worse recipes get used, or we import the cake. None of those make Americans better off. #TheProfessorIsIn #TeachEcon

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Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor.bsky.social · 14d

But all of us US Midwesterners will understand. I guess we speak pretty decent Canadian!

Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor.bsky.social · 23d

Are journals deciding now that it's just not feasible to keep AI assistance out of research because of "shifts in research practices?"

Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor.bsky.social · 25d

Seems the argument needs to be that it only seems like it is useful ir helpful but here are the hidden ways it makes you worse off(?).

Excellent piece overall that will help provide counterbalance on our working group!

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Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor.bsky.social · 25d

Seems the argument needs to be that it only seems like it is useful ir helpful but here are the hidden ways it makes you worse off(?).

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Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor.bsky.social · 25d

One issue though is many people find it useful or helpful, even if also flawed and limited.

Ie faculty who are AI pragmatists (not the enthusiasts)— not sure relying on moralizing will move the needle with them.

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Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor.bsky.social · 25d

Yes! Just read it this morning. You present many important ideas. I esp like that you wove in some history of “AI” — it‘s always been a discipline rife with hype. (I remember this even from taking AI courses in the 1990s as an undergrad.)

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 27d

young people today will never know what it was like when computers just… did what you told them to do. never randomly changed shit without permission. never locked you out of your game console for updates.

fuckin sucks.

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 27d

autocorrect just changed

mea culpa

into

mega culpability

i wasn’t even done typojg it. it wasn’t mistyped! AND IT DIDN’T FIX “TYPOJG”

what the fuck are we even doing here

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Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor.bsky.social · 26d

$100k to bring in each new H-1B PER YEAR. Clearly, the administration did not coordinate with the tech bros on this one. (Via NYT)

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 27d

An interesting perspective, arguing that reliance is a better way to think about science than trust.

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 27d

Why trusting in science is ‘a bit naive’.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

Why trusting in science is ‘a bit naive’, according to a philosopher - Research Professional News

Pittsburgh professor argues for a more nuanced view of ‘reliance’ on science

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net · 28d

“How can we make people hate Samsung appliances even more?”

The Verge @theverge.com · 28d

Samsung brings ads to US fridges

Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.

buff.ly

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28d

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.

sbgi.net/tv-stations/

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Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor.bsky.social · 29d

I mostly use it as an easier interface to programming language help docs. most stuff I try, the results were a waste of time or marginally saved a bit of time. I’m still open minded though.

Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor.bsky.social · 29d

I don’t see “do my homework” listed.

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 29d

Nothing. I use it for nothing at all because AI is good at zero of the tasks I do regularly

Honestly I don't even know what its web address is, is it like a 2000s style ChatGPT.com or something funkier like chat.g.pt

Kevin P. Taylor @ktaylor.bsky.social · Sep 15

A colleague told me about how you can set the determinism/randomness level in some of the LLMs, even all the way up to fully deterministic. But, my question (which I failed to ask) is whether two users could get the same responses setting to fully deterministic (suspect not).

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