Finally one thing they are, due to being statistical models of text, these neural networks and other large language models are indeed designed to do: milquetoastify boringify language.

LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.

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🚨New article out!
𝗖𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲: 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜’𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀

What happens in the so-called AI revolutions? And what role does hype play in them?

This article proposes a methodological framework for studying AI and its hype.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/studyhype
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"Viewing Replika companions as quasi-domesticated objects can open up new ways for better understanding the Artificial Sociality of social chatbots" #generativeai #chatbots
Read our latest paper w/ @ginasue.bsky.social here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@shuhbillskee.bsky.social, Niklas Johannes & I finally submitted our critique of a "new paradigm" in social media effects research for peer-review at Meta-Psychology. If you're interested in reviewing, please submit a review to [email protected] or e.g. prereview.org, or reply here.

🕹️ Have you ever wondered how players make sense of the increasing commodification of video games? If so, you'll find our paper "How Players Make Use of Cosmetic Items in Video Games: A Persona Approach" useful. 🎮https://doi.org/10.1002/cb.2490

Our final paper from the Frankenstein Bicentennial Project (frankenstein.asu.edu) just got published! In this study, we showcase how concepts such as possible self and interest in science can enable students to engage in science more imaginatively. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“If you mapped all of the existing power plants in South Carolina, they’d follow the old path of one of the foundational pillars of the American economy through South Carolina: plantations and enslaved labor…We’ve seen the repeated pattern of these threats in our community.”

So here's what's cool about my job:

Yesterday morning I said, "We really ought to have TWIN PEAKS available." So then a bunch of people scrambled, worked really hard, and now you can watch every episode of David Lynch & Mark Frost's original series for free on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand...

"Harry, in the heat of investigative pursuit, the shortest distance between two points is not necessarily in a straight line."

📣 Vacancy for Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark. (Deadline January 6)

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HBO has declined to renew “Sesame Street” for new episodes. The series that’s been teaching generations of little kids since 1969 now has no studio.

Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.

[ #academicSky, pls help + repost]

Reminder: Fully funded PhD!

Join my lab if you want to do impactful work in Explainable AI, Human-centered AI, and Responsible AI! (upolehsan.com)

Beyond research intersections, why should you want to work with me?

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Here's the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 starter pack! Includes past guests and friends of the show.

@emilymbender.bsky.social @whatulysses.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/3BjnHmd