Mercedes 🤦♀️ Bunz
@mrsbunz.bsky.social
King’s College London. Interested in reading ML as a ‘calculation of meaning’ 🧮📝📚✍️🎨. Creative AI Lab with Serpentine’s Eva Jäger. Left AI ✊
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📚🎊✨ yay - joint book launch for @nsrnicek.bsky.social's Silicon Empires, @mayameme.bsky.social's Auto-Correct and my Public Data Cultures, in discussion with @joannazylinska.bsky.social & @noortjem.bsky.social on 3rd Dec, 7-9pm 💜 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @politybooks.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
📚🎊✨ yay - joint book launch for @nsrnicek.bsky.social's Silicon Empires, @mayameme.bsky.social's Auto-Correct and my Public Data Cultures, in discussion with @joannazylinska.bsky.social & @noortjem.bsky.social on 3rd Dec, 7-9pm 💜 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @politybooks.bsky.social
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Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +
Opinion | AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It.
If we want to stay at the forefront of knowledge production, we must fit technology to our needs.
www.chronicle.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +
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Parting bedtime thought of why are these organisations I care about (British Library, Office for National Statistics) falling into such disrepair? I hope they can find their way through to recovery for all our sakes…
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Parting bedtime thought of why are these organisations I care about (British Library, Office for National Statistics) falling into such disrepair? I hope they can find their way through to recovery for all our sakes…
Heute 20 Uhr deutscher Zeit + online - wir reden über ChatGPT, Literatur und Romane. Schaut vorbei. 👇https://www.goethe.de/ins/ie/de/ver.cfm?event_id=26979823
Begegnung mit dem Autor: Meet the Author mit Hannes Bajohr: (Berlin, Miami) - Goethe-Institut Irland
Di., 04.11.2025 – Online-Buchvorstellung und Gespräch
www.goethe.de
November 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Heute 20 Uhr deutscher Zeit + online - wir reden über ChatGPT, Literatur und Romane. Schaut vorbei. 👇https://www.goethe.de/ins/ie/de/ver.cfm?event_id=26979823
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📚Join us next Tuesday 7pm UK time, on Zoom for the international book club 'Meet the Author -> @hannesbajohr.de" ✨Gespräch mit Hannes Bajohr über Literatur & AI ✨ (genau, auf Deutsch).
October 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
📚Join us next Tuesday 7pm UK time, on Zoom for the international book club 'Meet the Author -> @hannesbajohr.de" ✨Gespräch mit Hannes Bajohr über Literatur & AI ✨ (genau, auf Deutsch).
📚Join us next Tuesday 7pm UK time, on Zoom for the international book club 'Meet the Author -> @hannesbajohr.de" ✨Gespräch mit Hannes Bajohr über Literatur & AI ✨ (genau, auf Deutsch).
October 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
📚Join us next Tuesday 7pm UK time, on Zoom for the international book club 'Meet the Author -> @hannesbajohr.de" ✨Gespräch mit Hannes Bajohr über Literatur & AI ✨ (genau, auf Deutsch).
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Happy Internet Archive Day!
Join us tonight—online or IRL—for The Web We’ve Built!
If you visit the Archive in person, grab a free copy of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's new book THIS IS FOR EVERYONE from our BIG Free Library!
🎟️ ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h...
#Wayback1T
Join us tonight—online or IRL—for The Web We’ve Built!
If you visit the Archive in person, grab a free copy of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's new book THIS IS FOR EVERYONE from our BIG Free Library!
🎟️ ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h...
#Wayback1T
October 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Happy Internet Archive Day!
Join us tonight—online or IRL—for The Web We’ve Built!
If you visit the Archive in person, grab a free copy of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's new book THIS IS FOR EVERYONE from our BIG Free Library!
🎟️ ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h...
#Wayback1T
Join us tonight—online or IRL—for The Web We’ve Built!
If you visit the Archive in person, grab a free copy of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's new book THIS IS FOR EVERYONE from our BIG Free Library!
🎟️ ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h...
#Wayback1T
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You can get totally different advice from a language model depending on how you frame your question. Which could be a weakness. On the other hand, if you're patient enough to ask the question several times, with different framing, you start to get a kind of 3D scan of the possibility space.
October 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
You can get totally different advice from a language model depending on how you frame your question. Which could be a weakness. On the other hand, if you're patient enough to ask the question several times, with different framing, you start to get a kind of 3D scan of the possibility space.
Everyone should try this 😜🧮
btw what I did here was I took a data set of ChatGPT interactions collected in the wild and reversed the "assistant" and "user" tags. fine-tuned llama 8B on some of that data and gave it the ability to message you first. 😊
October 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Everyone should try this 😜🧮
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Libraries, archives & museums are under pressure, but cultural memory can survive.
Hear author @TJOwens.bsky.social of AFTER DISRUPTION: A FUTURE FOR CULTURAL MEMORY chat with @ShannonNattern.bsky.social on the Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm
Hear author @TJOwens.bsky.social of AFTER DISRUPTION: A FUTURE FOR CULTURAL MEMORY chat with @ShannonNattern.bsky.social on the Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm
October 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Libraries, archives & museums are under pressure, but cultural memory can survive.
Hear author @TJOwens.bsky.social of AFTER DISRUPTION: A FUTURE FOR CULTURAL MEMORY chat with @ShannonNattern.bsky.social on the Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm
Hear author @TJOwens.bsky.social of AFTER DISRUPTION: A FUTURE FOR CULTURAL MEMORY chat with @ShannonNattern.bsky.social on the Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm
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Keynote at #COLM2025: Nicholas Carlini from Anthropic
"Are language models worth it?"
Explains that the prior decade of his work on adversarial images, while it taught us a lot, isn't very applied; it's unlikely anyone is actually altering images of cats in scary ways.
"Are language models worth it?"
Explains that the prior decade of his work on adversarial images, while it taught us a lot, isn't very applied; it's unlikely anyone is actually altering images of cats in scary ways.
October 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Keynote at #COLM2025: Nicholas Carlini from Anthropic
"Are language models worth it?"
Explains that the prior decade of his work on adversarial images, while it taught us a lot, isn't very applied; it's unlikely anyone is actually altering images of cats in scary ways.
"Are language models worth it?"
Explains that the prior decade of his work on adversarial images, while it taught us a lot, isn't very applied; it's unlikely anyone is actually altering images of cats in scary ways.
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I posted this last night cause I kind of wanted to bury it. I got cold feet about putting it out there.
embedding-space.github.io/sparse-netwo...
The subject is WHY neural networks work, and I think the answer I offer is kind of interesting. Maybe even a little correct, possibly.
embedding-space.github.io/sparse-netwo...
The subject is WHY neural networks work, and I think the answer I offer is kind of interesting. Maybe even a little correct, possibly.
October 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I posted this last night cause I kind of wanted to bury it. I got cold feet about putting it out there.
embedding-space.github.io/sparse-netwo...
The subject is WHY neural networks work, and I think the answer I offer is kind of interesting. Maybe even a little correct, possibly.
embedding-space.github.io/sparse-netwo...
The subject is WHY neural networks work, and I think the answer I offer is kind of interesting. Maybe even a little correct, possibly.
This might interest some of you 👉 Doing AI Differently ⚡️sandpit and funding call – open to UK, Canada, US researchers for 4 projects integrating humanities into core AI development, benchmarks + tools that enable AI to handle cultural complexity. Deadline 31 Oct: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
Expressions of interest: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US
AHRC and SSHRC invite expressions of interest to attend a humanities-led, interdisciplinary research sandpit looking to put humanities insights and methodologies at the heart of artificial intelligenc...
www.ukri.org
October 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This might interest some of you 👉 Doing AI Differently ⚡️sandpit and funding call – open to UK, Canada, US researchers for 4 projects integrating humanities into core AI development, benchmarks + tools that enable AI to handle cultural complexity. Deadline 31 Oct: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
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"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
Join us if you are in London to discuss the language of LLMs! Wednesday, 15 October 4pm. 👇
⌨️ On 15 Oct, Dr @mrsbunz.bsky.social from @kingsdh.bsky.social explores Large Language Models and literary & philosophical theories of language to show that their calculation of meaning is fundamentally unlike meaning produced in communication.
🔗 Read more ⤵️
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On The Calculation of Meaning, Or Doing Words Without Things | King's College London
Bringing computational mechanisms of Large Language Models in conversation with literary and philosophical theories of language to show that their calculation of meaning is fundamentally unlike…
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September 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Join us if you are in London to discuss the language of LLMs! Wednesday, 15 October 4pm. 👇
Oh yes. 🫶👇
September 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Oh yes. 🫶👇
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“First is sight, that is to say the eye; second is the form of the thing seen; third is the distance from the eye to the thing seen …” Piero della Francesca
Spending the day at Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino 🖼️🎨🏰
Spending the day at Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino 🖼️🎨🏰
September 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“First is sight, that is to say the eye; second is the form of the thing seen; third is the distance from the eye to the thing seen …” Piero della Francesca
Spending the day at Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino 🖼️🎨🏰
Spending the day at Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino 🖼️🎨🏰
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New preprint on "Computational Hermeneutics," co-authored by too many people to list in one post. TL;DR: GenAI is a cultural technology, and needs to be evaluated in ways that recognize situatedness, plurality, and ambiguity as the conditions of meaning — not noise to be minimized.
Computational Hermeneutics: Evaluating Generative AI as a Cultural Technology
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<p>Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat cul
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August 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
New preprint on "Computational Hermeneutics," co-authored by too many people to list in one post. TL;DR: GenAI is a cultural technology, and needs to be evaluated in ways that recognize situatedness, plurality, and ambiguity as the conditions of meaning — not noise to be minimized.
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We have a new call for papers. If you're working on AI, democracy and public voice, please take a look. You'll need to move fast! digitalgood.net/call-for-abs... @mrsbunz.bsky.social @divya.bsky.social @meredithmeredith.bsky.social
Call for abstracts: Special issue - Including public voices in AI - ESRC Digital Good Network
AI promises to profoundly and pervasively transform the social and natural world. Yet public voices are rarely included in research and development that shapes AI […]
digitalgood.net
August 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We have a new call for papers. If you're working on AI, democracy and public voice, please take a look. You'll need to move fast! digitalgood.net/call-for-abs... @mrsbunz.bsky.social @divya.bsky.social @meredithmeredith.bsky.social
I really don’t like our times.
June 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I really don’t like our times.
… quite enjoyed this conference ‘Chat Token Vector’ 🤖🧮↗️ … with @mttpsq.bsky.social, @hannesbajohr.de, @atg-dbp.bsky.social and many others.
June 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
… quite enjoyed this conference ‘Chat Token Vector’ 🤖🧮↗️ … with @mttpsq.bsky.social, @hannesbajohr.de, @atg-dbp.bsky.social and many others.
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Ok I guess I have to go through that Apple paper.
My immediate issue is the framing which is super binary: "Are these models capable of generalizable reasoning, or are they leveraging different forms of pattern matching?" ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...
My immediate issue is the framing which is super binary: "Are these models capable of generalizable reasoning, or are they leveraging different forms of pattern matching?" ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...
June 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Ok I guess I have to go through that Apple paper.
My immediate issue is the framing which is super binary: "Are these models capable of generalizable reasoning, or are they leveraging different forms of pattern matching?" ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...
My immediate issue is the framing which is super binary: "Are these models capable of generalizable reasoning, or are they leveraging different forms of pattern matching?" ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...
Join me at the HBK Braunschweig, Germany next Wednesday June 4 to discuss caring about data and technical collectives. ✊
May 29, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Join me at the HBK Braunschweig, Germany next Wednesday June 4 to discuss caring about data and technical collectives. ✊
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Applications just opened for a postdoctoral position in Digital Media Studies with Markus Krajewski and myself at the Department of Media Studies and the Digital Humanities Laboratory at the University of Basel. (1/3)
May 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Applications just opened for a postdoctoral position in Digital Media Studies with Markus Krajewski and myself at the Department of Media Studies and the Digital Humanities Laboratory at the University of Basel. (1/3)
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Just over a week until our Technomoral Conversation on AI & Creative Labour!
We’ll be looking at issues ranging from the AI industry’s copyright violations, responses from creatives, and the wider ethical & political questions about the role of AI in creative practice and culture ▶️ edin.ac/3WJhuUH
We’ll be looking at issues ranging from the AI industry’s copyright violations, responses from creatives, and the wider ethical & political questions about the role of AI in creative practice and culture ▶️ edin.ac/3WJhuUH
April 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Just over a week until our Technomoral Conversation on AI & Creative Labour!
We’ll be looking at issues ranging from the AI industry’s copyright violations, responses from creatives, and the wider ethical & political questions about the role of AI in creative practice and culture ▶️ edin.ac/3WJhuUH
We’ll be looking at issues ranging from the AI industry’s copyright violations, responses from creatives, and the wider ethical & political questions about the role of AI in creative practice and culture ▶️ edin.ac/3WJhuUH