Christy Long
@keegxinu.bsky.social
Higher Ed | Leadership | Technology | Research | Cats.
Interested in emerging tech, responsible AI, and digital privacy.
Views are my own. Go Ducks!
Interested in emerging tech, responsible AI, and digital privacy.
Views are my own. Go Ducks!
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A survey of 300 attendees at the Cerebral Valley AI Conference asking which AI startup attendees thought was most likely to fail ranked Perplexity in the top position.
Second place? OpenAI.
Second place? OpenAI.
November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A survey of 300 attendees at the Cerebral Valley AI Conference asking which AI startup attendees thought was most likely to fail ranked Perplexity in the top position.
Second place? OpenAI.
Second place? OpenAI.
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About to be the family that owns TikTok.
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
About to be the family that owns TikTok.
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OpenAI and Nvidia are discussing a new chip leasing business model, which could potentially save OpenAI 10-15% compared to purchasing the chips outright. Read more: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-megadeal-nvidia-discusses-new-business-model-chip-leasing
In OpenAI Megadeal, Nvidia Discusses a New Business Model: Chip Leasing
OpenAI and Nvidia are discussing an unusual way to structure their new artificial intelligence data center partnership, under which OpenAI would lease Nvidia’s AI chips rather than buying them, accord...
www.theinformation.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
OpenAI and Nvidia are discussing a new chip leasing business model, which could potentially save OpenAI 10-15% compared to purchasing the chips outright. Read more: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-megadeal-nvidia-discusses-new-business-model-chip-leasing
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just another unrealistic body expectation for women
May 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
just another unrealistic body expectation for women
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"We are building robots to replace all of your jobs, which we will own, but it won't replace my job," said the VC.
Are these the good guys?
Are these the good guys?
April 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"We are building robots to replace all of your jobs, which we will own, but it won't replace my job," said the VC.
Are these the good guys?
Are these the good guys?
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Academia isn’t perfect, but it offers a rare space to pursue knowledge for its own sake. If research were fully privatized, only profit-driven questions would get asked. Yet many of the most transformative discoveries began as curiosity-driven inquiries whose value wasn’t clear for years.
April 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Academia isn’t perfect, but it offers a rare space to pursue knowledge for its own sake. If research were fully privatized, only profit-driven questions would get asked. Yet many of the most transformative discoveries began as curiosity-driven inquiries whose value wasn’t clear for years.
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Also never forget that:
We believe you can do it
We believe you know what to do
We know you are intelligent
We know you always will strive to do better
We know you are committed to make it happen
Never QUIT!
We are all so PROUD OF YOU
We believe you can do it
We believe you know what to do
We know you are intelligent
We know you always will strive to do better
We know you are committed to make it happen
Never QUIT!
We are all so PROUD OF YOU
In case you needed someone to tell you this:
You can do it.
You know what to do.
You are so smart.
You are doing your best.
I see how hard you're trying.
Keep going.
I am so proud of you.
You can do it.
You know what to do.
You are so smart.
You are doing your best.
I see how hard you're trying.
Keep going.
I am so proud of you.
April 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Also never forget that:
We believe you can do it
We believe you know what to do
We know you are intelligent
We know you always will strive to do better
We know you are committed to make it happen
Never QUIT!
We are all so PROUD OF YOU
We believe you can do it
We believe you know what to do
We know you are intelligent
We know you always will strive to do better
We know you are committed to make it happen
Never QUIT!
We are all so PROUD OF YOU
Great read! 💯
This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.
Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes (Gift Article)
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Great read! 💯
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A nonprofit reached out for advice because bots and AIs are crashing their website and interfering with their mission. This CrowdStrike news comes at a good time.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/c...
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/c...
Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts
New approach punishes AI companies that ignore “no crawl” directives.
arstechnica.com
March 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
A nonprofit reached out for advice because bots and AIs are crashing their website and interfering with their mission. This CrowdStrike news comes at a good time.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/c...
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/c...
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January 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
SPECIAL OFFER: As my course has been so popular, Udemy put up the US price. I want the course to be accessible to those who need it, so I am offering a coupon for a DISCOUNT - making the course $15 for the next 30 days: 398D1BC64275CBF936EA - please share! Thanks.
www.udemy.com/course/propa...
www.udemy.com/course/propa...
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A thread on “persuasion” and bias in AI models that’s worth your time
As usual on point from @garymarcus.bsky.social . AI as a persuasion agent is a dangerous tool (Gary gives our work as an example, but there's a lot more, see thread) and our best guess should be that the recent Trump Executive Order on AI Bias does not intend to fix it (or fix AI Bias). Thread 1/
Elon Musk’s terrifying vision for AI; short, urgent new piece at Marcus on AI.
I can’t remain silent - and hope you won’t, either.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
I can’t remain silent - and hope you won’t, either.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
February 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
A thread on “persuasion” and bias in AI models that’s worth your time
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I thought this article was interesting on plummeting male college enrollment; argues that men flee college as women enter. Reminds me of @histoftech.bsky.social's work on the changing value of computer work thru masculinization
celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-d...
celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-d...
Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?
We would rather talk about literally everything else.
celestemdavis.substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I thought this article was interesting on plummeting male college enrollment; argues that men flee college as women enter. Reminds me of @histoftech.bsky.social's work on the changing value of computer work thru masculinization
celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-d...
celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-d...
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We’ve all seen this movie and it didn’t go well.
Colossal raises $200M to “de-extinct” the woolly mammoth, thylacine and dodo
Colossal BioSciences has raised $200 million in a new round of funding to bring back extinct species like the woolly mammoth.
venturebeat.com
January 16, 2025 at 4:13 AM
We’ve all seen this movie and it didn’t go well.
😂😂😂
Silicon Valley, not satisfied with @hypervisible.bsky.social's concept of luxury surveillance, now expanding into luxury imprisonment.
A Los Angeles man said he recently missed his flight home after getting trapped on his way to the airport in a Waymo that wouldn’t stop making circles in a parking lot.
“Customer service is automated and ran by AI.”
🤦🏾♀️
www.latimes.com/california/s...
“Customer service is automated and ran by AI.”
🤦🏾♀️
www.latimes.com/california/s...
January 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
😂😂😂
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so shel silverstein anticipated ai?
December 25, 2024 at 4:43 PM
so shel silverstein anticipated ai?
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Quantum teleportation can survive through busy internet cables
An experiment showing that quantum and classical communication can be carried on the same fiber at the same time may open the door to building a quantum internet
www.newscientist.com/article/2461...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
An experiment showing that quantum and classical communication can be carried on the same fiber at the same time may open the door to building a quantum internet
www.newscientist.com/article/2461...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Quantum teleportation can survive through busy internet cables
An experiment showing that quantum and classical communication can be carried out through the same fibre at the same time may open the door to building a quantum internet with existing infrastructure
www.newscientist.com
December 20, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Quantum teleportation can survive through busy internet cables
An experiment showing that quantum and classical communication can be carried on the same fiber at the same time may open the door to building a quantum internet
www.newscientist.com/article/2461...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
An experiment showing that quantum and classical communication can be carried on the same fiber at the same time may open the door to building a quantum internet
www.newscientist.com/article/2461...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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“What went wrong? LLMs don’t summarize text — they just shorten it. That’s a subtle difference, but it’s key.”
@davidgerard.co.uk has explained why LLMs do this over and over if anyone spruiking this stuff wants to actually listen for a change.
pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/04/d...
@davidgerard.co.uk has explained why LLMs do this over and over if anyone spruiking this stuff wants to actually listen for a change.
pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/04/d...
Don’t use AI to summarize documents — it’s worse than humans in every way
The main use case for LLMs is writing text nobody wanted to read. The other use case is summarizing text nobody wanted to read. Except they don’t do that either. The Australian Securities and…
pivot-to-ai.com
December 13, 2024 at 10:16 PM
“What went wrong? LLMs don’t summarize text — they just shorten it. That’s a subtle difference, but it’s key.”
@davidgerard.co.uk has explained why LLMs do this over and over if anyone spruiking this stuff wants to actually listen for a change.
pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/04/d...
@davidgerard.co.uk has explained why LLMs do this over and over if anyone spruiking this stuff wants to actually listen for a change.
pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/04/d...
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How Claude Became Tech Insiders’ Chatbot of Choice www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/t...
Why Anthropic’s Claude Is a Hit with Tech Insiders
A.I. insiders are falling for Claude, a chatbot from Anthropic. Is it a passing fad, or a preview of artificial relationships to come?
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2024 at 9:20 PM
How Claude Became Tech Insiders’ Chatbot of Choice www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/t...
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The consumer way of looking at AI is the most dangerous perspective. Not only do we become dependent on it, but we are less critical of the ways AI is going to be used to control us argues Osama Manzar at #GVSummit2024
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December 7, 2024 at 9:37 AM
The consumer way of looking at AI is the most dangerous perspective. Not only do we become dependent on it, but we are less critical of the ways AI is going to be used to control us argues Osama Manzar at #GVSummit2024
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⚡⚡⚡Generative AI " is a tool of power masquerading as a tool of knowledge" ⚡⚡⚡Quoting @robhorning.bsky.social in robhorning.substack.com/p/practico-i... h/t @hypervisible.bsky.social and that's a wrap!
Practico-inertia
Google recently released an generative model called Gemini but had to suspend its image-generation capabilities because of how it was programmed to address brand safety concerns.
robhorning.substack.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:50 AM
⚡⚡⚡Generative AI " is a tool of power masquerading as a tool of knowledge" ⚡⚡⚡Quoting @robhorning.bsky.social in robhorning.substack.com/p/practico-i... h/t @hypervisible.bsky.social and that's a wrap!
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Quoting this piece by @robhorning.bsky.social robhorning.substack.com/p/practico-i...
December 2, 2024 at 3:07 AM
Quoting this piece by @robhorning.bsky.social robhorning.substack.com/p/practico-i...
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"Generative AI is a tool of power masquerading as a tool of knowledge" said @hypervisible.bsky.social at the color of surveillance conference. 🧿
December 2, 2024 at 2:36 AM
"Generative AI is a tool of power masquerading as a tool of knowledge" said @hypervisible.bsky.social at the color of surveillance conference. 🧿