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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 1d

Nice llama.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 2d

"I never thought the jaguars would eat me!" cries priest who voted for the "Jaguars Eating Priests Party".

Manfredovski @manfredovski.bsky.social · 3d

Misionario Comido pela onça, pintura do artista colombiano Noé León (1907-1978)

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 2d

Next week I'll be speaking at the Oxford Generative AI summit, if you're there say hi. www.oxgensummit.org

Home | Oxford Generative AI Summit | October 17 -18, 2024

The Oxford Generative AI Summit is Oxford's multi-day, multi-stakeholder expert convening on generative AI & society.

www.oxgensummit.org

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Manfredovski @manfredovski.bsky.social · 3d

Misionario Comido pela onça, pintura do artista colombiano Noé León (1907-1978)

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! LLMs are great at so many elements of research: bouncing ideas, structuring, copy editing. They can be used for actual research, but you should always check twice the information they give.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 3d

There's a good reason why the "AI will be brought down by the bubble" discourse is the dominant coping mechanism at the moment. We've already gone through the "copyright", "nobody uses it", and "model collapse" stages of grief.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 3d

Three years into the AI Wars and not a single company has been brought down by copyright litigation. By this time into the P2P Wars, Napster had already been obliterated. When will the people who were assured that copyright would destroy AI realise they were lied to?

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 3d

Is there a better high than giving a great lecture to a packed auditorium and see it land as it should?

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 5d

Very good post, I keep pointing out that there's only one step from using these on inanimate objects and then using them on people.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 5d

I should have known that a legal consultancy firm that booked me for a talk wasn’t reliable when I saw the AI slop they were using to advertise their events.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 5d

On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. 'Tis a silly place.

a group of people in white robes are standing next to each other in a room .

ALT: a group of people in white robes are standing next to each other in a room .

media.tenor.com

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 6d

I try from time to time, but it feels like the place is hungry for drama and conflict at the moment.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 6d

My "Teaching prep" playlist is getting its first outing of the year. open.spotify.com/playlist/3SB...

Teaching prep

open.spotify.com

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 7d

I think that there's an element of cabin fever happening, the place isn't getting many new users, so people who are not using other social media start arguing over the silliest minutiae, often becoming more irascible than warranted.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 7d

After having fallen through several Bluesky rabbit holes over the weekend, I have come to the conclusion that this is not a very nice place at the moment.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 7d

Clanker, tinskin, and waterback may bring up some of the relevant discussions.

Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 7d

Sure, you can't dehumanise something that is not human, but that was never the complaint and the objection about the ickyness of the practice, it is the humans that are inevitably going to get targetted.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 7d

I'm bored by most of the machine slur discourse, but it's baffling that people haven't made the connection between having fun with made-up slurs for machines, and the reality of using those slurs to associate with real people who use machines. I've already seen unironic uses of "clanker-lover".

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 7d

There's also the element that there's just one step from made-up slurs against machines, and those slurs being used on real people who operate machines. I've already seen several uses of "clanker lover".

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 7d

I'm spending my Sunday falling down Bluesky rabbit holes instead of writing.

I guess it beats cleaning the flat.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 9d

I don't spend a lot of time here, so I am often left feeling entirely baffled by Bluesky-specific discourse that floats past in one of my feeds. I have no idea what most of you are talking about half of the time.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 10d

I just read something I wrote over 3 years ago and before AI, and I swear that it reads like AI.

Hi, it's me, I'm the problem, it's me.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 10d

Sora 2 and the end of copyright as we know it

Something remarkable is happening online, and I don’t quite know how to explain it, but I’ll try. OpenAI has released Sora 2, the latest version of its video-generating tool, and it has landed with a bang. Before launch, Sam Altman made headlines by…

Sora 2 and the end of copyright as we know it

Something remarkable is happening online, and I don’t quite know how to explain it, but I’ll try. OpenAI has released Sora 2, the latest version of its video-generating tool, and it has landed with a bang. Before launch, Sam Altman made headlines by suggesting that copyright holders would need to opt out of having their works used for outputs, a statement that understandably set off alarm bells in some circles.

www.technollama.co.uk

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 13d

Tempted again. Quetzalcoatl, give me strength.

What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 13d

I tried the Gemini professional headshot prompt. Nailed it.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 13d

First lecture since November of last year so my anxiety dreams have been in overdrive. Some of the classics are making an appearance, including the one where I have to go back to secondary school because I missed one class, followed by the one in which I have an exam but I didn't attend class.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 18d

The Right hacked our collective attention since 2015, this is a well-documented strategy, and we keep falling for it ever since.

"Gay immigrants are stealing children and giving them autism".

And that's the one thing everyone talks about for days. That's why you feel exhausted.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 21d

In some instances the requests come from people in developing countries, so I tend to be more understanding as there is certainly a lack of resources. But sometimes the requests come from students from more prestigious universities in Europe and the UK, and these ones tend to be a bit more entitled.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 21d

I understand why these requests happen, my public persona is affable and often humorous, and some people tend to paint a picture in their heads of what I'm like from my articles, social media, and blog posts; when in reality I'm very shy and introverted.

But I'm increasingly annoyed.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 21d

I get quite a few requests from PG students from other universities for help with their research, either by asking for interviews, requests for reading recommendations, and even the occasional request to read drafts or even to co-author an article.

I try to politely deny most requests.

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