Kean Birch @keanbirch
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My cold take on this is that ChatGPT was hyped and framed as a general artificial intelligence that could do just about anything, when in fact it’s a specific form of artificial intelligence that does just a few things well (including faking the ability to do many others)
My cold take on this is that ChatGPT was hyped and framed as a general artificial intelligence that could do just about anything, when in fact it’s a specific form of artificial intelligence that does just a few things well (including faking the ability to do many others)
Anyone interested in impact of recent overhaul of 🇨🇦#competition law is welcome to attend June 12-13 event in Ottawa. An amazing & diverse group of thoughtful people will share their views. Expect lively debate. It's free but you need to register. Details to be shared soon.👇
Anyone interested in impact of recent overhaul of 🇨🇦#competition law is welcome to attend June 12-13 event in Ottawa. An amazing & diverse group of thoughtful people will share their views. Expect lively debate. It's free but you need to register. Details to be shared soon.👇
@BenPatrickWill and I did a study on how proprietary platforms impact academic freedom and IP rights of academics. Check out the video below and join me at the @eduint webinar on Monday. Please RT
@BenPatrickWill and I did a study on how proprietary platforms impact academic freedom and IP rights of academics. Check out the video below and join me at the @eduint webinar on Monday. Please RT
Enjoyed reading @CompBureau's 2024-2025 annual plan named "Onwards and Upwards: Strengthening Competition for Canadians", published today. With new legislative tools at their disposal, the strategic vision is more ambitious than ever. 🧵
Forthcoming: "Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies" -- edited by Ulrike Felt and Alan Irwin e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elgar…
How about a maximum amount any single donor can donate to any single university in their lifetime? Something like max 1 million ($, euro, pounds, etc.). This would both force the spreading out of donations & limit influence of any single donor on academic mission #academia
We're not much on Twitter anymore, but we are hiring for a professor in in #Anthropology and/or Science and Technology Studies #sts with a focus on the value and ethics of data and digital technologies. Deadline 1 June candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…
Have you bought your copy of Calderdale by @dylan_byford yet? Sequel to Airedale, this cyberpunk mystery set in future Yorkshire was wildly popular at Burnley comic fair, and is perfect for fans of scifi, crime or weird fiction in general Order now: northodox.co.uk/product-page/c…
““The difficulty is that when you build these data centers and pack them full of computer hardware, you’re gonna need power to run all that computer hardware,” .. it puts stress on the power grid and the increase in carbon intensity.” technical.ly/software-devel…
For anyone interested in higher education, #EdTech, digital data and value, check out our key report with overall findings from the Universities and Unicorns project:
For anyone interested in higher education, #EdTech, digital data and value, check out our key report with overall findings from the Universities and Unicorns project:
People who mostly make money trading assets collect 78% of capital gains. In 2021, their average capital gains were higher than the average income of any other group, except self-employed professionals.
Very interesting implications re asset ownership here: extension of control by richest nations via global trust in their financial assets, enabling (via low interest rates too) their extraction of value from rest of the world #assetization
Very interesting implications re asset ownership here: extension of control by richest nations via global trust in their financial assets, enabling (via low interest rates too) their extraction of value from rest of the world #assetization
I spent a long time experimenting with AI before finally writing about it in depth. It can be pretty useful — but is it worth it? citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useles…
Folks, please spread the word widely: My college is looking to hire someone who is an expert in "the human impacts of digital technologies." The role is a little funny, and I would be happy to talk with you about it. But you or a friend SHOULD APPLY. careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/j…
"AI’s voracious need for computing power is threatening to overwhelm energy sources... by 2030, the world’s data centers are on course to use more electricity than India" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Anyone come across an "upgrade" offer/auction phishing email?
New report on digitalisation and datafication of UK universities and the #EdTech industry with findings from the Universities and Unicorns project. It’s aimed at HE and EdTech stakeholders and policymakers. With @Hansen_edu, Sam Sellar and @keanbirch. t.ly/S_mrL
Exciting News! Book Two in my #cyberpunk #Yorkshire #CrimeFiction Cyberdales series out now via @northodoxpress Buy at Amazon - tinyurl.com/29x8taxf Buy at Northodox - tinyurl.com/45r3zz2s
Lee Vinsel @STS_News
9K Followers 2K Following I do technology studies, make Peoples & Things podcast, co-founded @The_Maintainers, and profess Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.
Ilias Alami @IliasAlami
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Barbara Prainsack (@b.. @BPrainsack
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AKA Fabian Muniesa @provokedeconomy
3K Followers 5K Following Sparse reactions to things, augmented with academic propaganda -- from the verified author of 'The Provoked Economy' (Routledge, 2014), AKA Fabian Muniesa
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Nina Klimburg-Witjes @WitjesNina
826 Followers 613 Following Assist. Professor in STS @univienna, PI ERC funded research project FutureSpace
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Finance and Society @FinandSoc
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Paul Langley @_paullangley
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Valuation Studies @Val_Studies
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Ana Visan @anavisan
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Stephen Thompson @StephenThomo
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Abe Hendriks @abehendriks
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Mimi B @mimikbusch
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Sebastián Ansaldo @sansaldo
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JJudge @machineciv
73 Followers 245 Following "Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes." George Orwell
Phoenix Insurgent @PhxInsurgent
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Ramesh Srinivasan @RameshMedias
8K Followers 2K Following Author/Prof @ UCLA studying tech's impact on political, economic, and cultural life 🤖🌎 Subscribe to Utopias podcast here: https://t.co/5OqbcdeXLS
Joe Castaldo @Joe_Castaldo
2K Followers 963 Following Business reporter at The Globe and Mail (@globebusiness). Formerly @Macleans and @cdnbiz
Arvinder Bindra @arvinder_bindra
121 Followers 813 Following
Bóxī Wú 吴泊曦 @boxiwu_
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Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid
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Dr. Gary Ackerman @GaryAckermanPhD
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Tanya Matthan @TanyaMatthan
2K Followers 5K Following Agrarian Studies | Finance | Political Ecology. Bad anthropologist, book hoarder, chronic procrastinator. Petty-resenteois.
Dr. Avery Everhart @dr_ar_everhart
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Ravi Krishnaswami @mistermarr
933 Followers 3K Following Composer for Media researching AI and automation. ABD at Brown University. Visiting Faculty at Amherst College. Marr on stage with The Smiths Tribute NYC.
Lee Vinsel @STS_News
9K Followers 2K Following I do technology studies, make Peoples & Things podcast, co-founded @The_Maintainers, and profess Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.
Ilias Alami @IliasAlami
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Barbara Prainsack (@b.. @BPrainsack
8K Followers 1K Following Prof @univienna @sydney_chs #PrecisionMedicine #Solidarity #DataGovernance #FutureOfWork | Chair #ethicsgroup_eu | Fellow 2023/24 @wiko_berlin
AKA Fabian Muniesa @provokedeconomy
3K Followers 5K Following Sparse reactions to things, augmented with academic propaganda -- from the verified author of 'The Provoked Economy' (Routledge, 2014), AKA Fabian Muniesa
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski
20K Followers 401 Following senior fellow (decra) @emergingtechlab /// co-host @machinekillspod /// my new book – https://t.co/Rgzl9unqom
Benjamin Braun @BJMbraun
21K Followers 3K Following Political economist | @MPIfG_Cologne | Researching central banking, asset management, green macrofinancial regimes & more | benbraun on the blue site
Nick Seaver @npseaver
17K Followers 2K Following anthropology, algorithms, attention | asst prof @tuftsuniversity | mr @thisischristina | he/him | "very relatable, but not exactly chill"
Jack Stilgoe @Jackstilgoe
10K Followers 4K Following Professor @stsucl; @responsibleAIUK; Book: Who's Driving Innovation?
Hyo Yoon KANG 강효�.. @hyoyoonkang
4K Followers 2K Following Reader/Associate Professor @warwick_law | intellectual properties, law&hum& sci, theories | editorial boards @econsocjournal & @JCultEcon | serving @ISHTIP_org
Nina Klimburg-Witjes @WitjesNina
826 Followers 613 Following Assist. Professor in STS @univienna, PI ERC funded research project FutureSpace
Mark Coeckelbergh @MCoeckelbergh
14K Followers 11K Following philosopher of technology | philosophy professor @univienna | guestprof Prague Uppsala | co-founder @UsingAIforGood | @EU_Commission high-level expert group #AI
Finance and Society @FinandSoc
3K Followers 332 Following Cross-disciplinary journal dedicated to interrogating the central role of finance in contemporary life. Published by @CambridgeUP on behalf of @FinSocNet.
Louise Amoore @AmooreLouise
9K Followers 4K Following Prof. Political Geography Author Politics of Possibility https://t.co/WuYzh6zPGh Cloud Ethics https://t.co/gSHwtka47d
Paul Langley @_paullangley
3K Followers 2K Following Professor of Economic Geography, Durham University. Managing Editor @EconSocJournal
Desiree Fields @FieldsDesiree
7K Followers 3K Following Californian, urbanist, geographer @BerkeleyGeog and @gmsberkeley studying digital-financial experiments with property. Trustee @USForg, editor @economyandspace
Tim Christiaens @TimChristiaens5
6K Followers 2K Following Political philosopher working on critical theory and economic thought. Assistant Professor at Tilburg University.
Valuation Studies @Val_Studies
2K Followers 2K Following A peer-reviewed, open access journal connecting several research fields in the social sciences on the study of valuation as a problem.
Journal of Cultural E.. @JCultEcon
3K Followers 2K Following JCE explores how material cultural practices organise economies and societies. EICs Philip Roscoe @philip_roscoe & Liz McFall @allartmarkets
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625 Followers 3K Following Music, Technology, our relationship with both of those things as culture. Researcher @GlanvilleCentre @icsJournal reviews Se habla Spanglish y puras pendejadas.
FINDING THE MONEY Fil.. @FindingMoneyDoc
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585 Followers 760 Following Lecturer in Sociology at @UniofYork and Visiting Fellow at @ALGOSOC_ERC @GeogDurham
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Marty Swant @martyswant
19K Followers 17K Following Senior Reporter @digiday covering marketing & tech (AI, privacy, policy, etc.) ✍️ Past: @Forbes, @Adweek, @AP. 📧 [email protected]📱Signal: +1 929-399-6544
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Alex Williams @lemonbloodycola
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Imagine Otherwise Dra.. @ZaneGTCooper
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Stephen Thompson @StephenThomo
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Şükrü Yılmaz @sukruyyilmaz
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Critical AI : first i.. @CriticalAI
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Abe Hendriks @abehendriks
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Anetta Proskurovska @proskurovska
37 Followers 95 Following PhD candidate financial & economic geography @Uni.my
Mimi B @mimikbusch
190 Followers 2K Following 📚 PhD candidate in Information Science & Teaching Assistant @ The University of North Texas #interdisciplinarity #networkscience #bibliometrics #metascience
Willie Agnew | wagnew.. @willie_agnew
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Jack Taggart @drjacktaggart
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Steve Szigeti @steveszigeti
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Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus
145K Followers 7K Following “A beacon of clarity”. Spoke at US Senate AI Oversight committee. Founder/CEO Geometric Intelligence (acq. by Uber). Rebooting AI & Taming Silicon Valley.
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JJudge @machineciv
73 Followers 245 Following "Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes." George Orwell
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Martin Reinhart @ReinhartM11
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8K Followers 2K Following Author/Prof @ UCLA studying tech's impact on political, economic, and cultural life 🤖🌎 Subscribe to Utopias podcast here: https://t.co/5OqbcdeXLSThe story on importance of Google’s data harvesting to monopoly maintenance was crystal clear so let’s move on to how DOJ alleges Google was able to use its market power to impact ad prices which drive much of their revenues. 3/13
Department of Justice has now posted its hundreds of great slides from closing arguments. I’ll share 13 slides that tell story imho captured by this list. First, if search defaults don’t matter, why pay approx $30B, 40% of revenue to maintain them? 1/13
💥New pre-print: #GenerativeAI & #DataProtection I analyse the structural problems of the GDPR with generative models: legal basis, rights of data subjects, responsibility + principles important: distinction btwn 3 data processing steps💥 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Please read and share. "Why we no longer have confidence in the admin" at: #YorkUniversity @OCUFA @caut @TorontoStar @globeandmail @ColinDMello @cupe3903 @PeggySattlerNDP @kernaghant
Students, teaching assistants, and faculty should not have to pay for the financial mistakes of the university’s administration. @YUFAyorku Why we no longer have confidence in York University’s administration: canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…
Ads are taking center stage today in @Google’s #antitrust trial, as @TheJusticeDept seeks to show the search giant as the only player in a game with rising prices. My @Digiday story about the second day of closing arguments, which have a few hours left. digiday.com/media-buying/g…
My cold take on this is that ChatGPT was hyped and framed as a general artificial intelligence that could do just about anything, when in fact it’s a specific form of artificial intelligence that does just a few things well (including faking the ability to do many others)
I don’t think it’s a hedonic treadmill type thing. It’s more like, it just actually sucks. It’s amazing, but it doesn’t do anything useful enough to be worth anything. The value proposition has always been that the useful version of it is just around the corner.
Anyone interested in impact of recent overhaul of 🇨🇦#competition law is welcome to attend June 12-13 event in Ottawa. An amazing & diverse group of thoughtful people will share their views. Expect lively debate. It's free but you need to register. Details to be shared soon.👇
Canada is at a pivotal moment in the evolution of its competition law and policy. @quaid_jennifer will convene a symposium on June 12-13, 2024 – “Competition Policy in the 21stCentury” – to foster in-depth analysis on the issues at hand. Learn more: tinyurl.com/397729a8
Even Google admits - grudgingly - that it is losing the spam wars. The explosive proliferation of botshit has supercharged the sleazy "search engine optimization" business. 1/
Two months ago, @ThisHouseFresh sounded the alarm about Google killing independent sites. I wrote an update on things I’ve learned and things that happened after publishing that article: housefresh.com/how-google-dec… SPOILER: We have lost 91% of traffic from Google since then.
Superb and very powerful letter from the UK Lords to the government about generative AI training / copyright. Some highlights: - “The issues with copyright are manifesting right now and problematic business models are fast becoming entrenched and normalised.” - “It is……
Excl: Copyright is being eroded by lack of action to control AI, say Lords. thetimes.co.uk/article/db4145…
Scaling “laws” were never laws. They were trends. Trends whose time may be up. 13.5 months and $50B post GPT-4, GPT-4 remains on top.
Many have pointed out that LLM benchmarks are broken and gamed. Happy to see my former resident @hughbzhang, @summeryue0, and the great @scale_AI folks do something about it! They made a private version of GSM8k and evaled GPT-4, Claude, Mixtral, Phi, etc: arxiv.org/pdf/2405.00332
Briefly stopping by because closings in US v Google are today! And I sifted through the thousands of pages of stuff unsealed Tuesday so you dont have to: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
NEW: The National Archives has banned employee use of ChatGPT. Notable considering it is responsible for preserving an accurate historical record of the United States. 404media.co/national-archi…
🚨AI policy alert: The new report from the Dutch Data Protection Authority is out, and it has bad news for AI developers & entrepreneurs (automatic translation below):
@BenPatrickWill and I did a study on how proprietary platforms impact academic freedom and IP rights of academics. Check out the video below and join me at the @eduint webinar on Monday. Please RT
🎥 Celebrate World Intellectual Property Day with a sneak peek of our webinar on safeguarding intellectual property and academic freedom in Higher Education. 📆 Join us on May 6, 3 PM CEST! 🔗 Register here: eiie.io/3xIyQY6 #GoPublic ✏️ #FundEducation #WorldIPDay
There is a report going around Apple is going to facilitate blocking of ads in Safari - it deserves your attention. Meanwhile, I want to connect dots w/ a number of redactions lifted (yellow) late last night in the post-trial docs of US v Google - closing arguments are tmw. /1
Yesterday, after 8.5 hrs, FINA @HoCCommittees finished its clause by clause review of Bill #C59 @ISED_CA officials were there to answer questions as several big changes considered to Division 6 (Competition). Here's a quick list. ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer…
Enjoyed reading @CompBureau's 2024-2025 annual plan named "Onwards and Upwards: Strengthening Competition for Canadians", published today. With new legislative tools at their disposal, the strategic vision is more ambitious than ever. 🧵
It's been nearly six months since the close of trial proceedings in US v Google, but we're back for closing arguments this week. The delay provides a useful reminder: Time is on the side of the monopolist. How we got here, and what comes next, below. bigtechontrial.com/p/return-of-th…
🚨BREAKING: @NOYBeu filed a complaint against OpenAI for not complying with EU data protection law. This is an important topic, here's what you need to know: ➡️According to Noyb's official release: "noyb is now asking the Austrian data protection authority (DSB) to investigate…
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