Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
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assistant professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
assistant professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
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CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai
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Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
March 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
> "We are saying that progress is moving faster than older forecasts suggested," the Commission said.
We're building a tower to the moon and they added loads of floors recently. We'll reach the moon faster than older forecasts. 🤡
Great work @krisshrishak.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
We're building a tower to the moon and they added loads of floors recently. We'll reach the moon faster than older forecasts. 🤡
Great work @krisshrishak.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
Scientists call on Von der Leyen to withdraw AI comment
More than 70 AI scientists from around the world have written to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen asking her to retract a statement she made in May that artificial intelligence is ex...
www.rte.ie
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 AM
> "We are saying that progress is moving faster than older forecasts suggested," the Commission said.
We're building a tower to the moon and they added loads of floors recently. We'll reach the moon faster than older forecasts. 🤡
Great work @krisshrishak.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
We're building a tower to the moon and they added loads of floors recently. We'll reach the moon faster than older forecasts. 🤡
Great work @krisshrishak.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
See ken walker’s ridiculous tech-utopian opinion piece. He argues it’s time to stop thinking about AI harms/risks & to start deploying at scale? Jaw dropping.
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Likely one of the worst pieces of advocacy in the history of mankind. Google’s Ken Walker suggests “The true measure of these models’ value is whether Americans are actually using them.” Really. So rampant illegal drug use demonstrates its value? This is nonsense, even by Google’s abysmal standards.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
See ken walker’s ridiculous tech-utopian opinion piece. He argues it’s time to stop thinking about AI harms/risks & to start deploying at scale? Jaw dropping.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
See letter here bsky.app/profile/kris...
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
See letter here bsky.app/profile/kris...
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
Note to political leaders - stop AI overhype.
Today's letter from 73 scientists led by my colleague @krisshrishak.bsky.social to Ursula von der Leyen demands that she retract her budget speech non-scientific AI statement that parroted tech CEO hype.
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
Today's letter from 73 scientists led by my colleague @krisshrishak.bsky.social to Ursula von der Leyen demands that she retract her budget speech non-scientific AI statement that parroted tech CEO hype.
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
European Commission asked by 73 scientists to withdraw 'AI hype' statement | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
MLex Summary: Seventy-three scientists from Europe, the UK and North America asked the European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen to withdraw a statement claiming AI would reach human-level ...
www.mlex.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Note to political leaders - stop AI overhype.
Today's letter from 73 scientists led by my colleague @krisshrishak.bsky.social to Ursula von der Leyen demands that she retract her budget speech non-scientific AI statement that parroted tech CEO hype.
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
Today's letter from 73 scientists led by my colleague @krisshrishak.bsky.social to Ursula von der Leyen demands that she retract her budget speech non-scientific AI statement that parroted tech CEO hype.
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
Please sign this excellent letter to Ursula vdL, so she can see that nonsense AI hype is neither true nor appropriate for anybody to believe or spread.
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Please sign this excellent letter to Ursula vdL, so she can see that nonsense AI hype is neither true nor appropriate for anybody to believe or spread.
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
someone like him can also do that level of scrutiny when presented with something so flawed. It's not very difficult to do, unless you have a tremendous emotional attachment to your preconceived ideas and refuse to let go. (I had some about IQ BEFORE ever taking a test. I let go of them afterwards.)
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
someone like him can also do that level of scrutiny when presented with something so flawed. It's not very difficult to do, unless you have a tremendous emotional attachment to your preconceived ideas and refuse to let go. (I had some about IQ BEFORE ever taking a test. I let go of them afterwards.)
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
It's also specious reasoning. There are many avenues by which someone can interrogate the claims he accepted without scrutiny. Around age 16, first time for an IQ test (a friends mom was doing a graduate psych degree) I pointed out the many flaws I found with it. If 16 yr old me can do that...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It's also specious reasoning. There are many avenues by which someone can interrogate the claims he accepted without scrutiny. Around age 16, first time for an IQ test (a friends mom was doing a graduate psych degree) I pointed out the many flaws I found with it. If 16 yr old me can do that...
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Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
Generative AI is the apotheosis of this process. It's praised for doing better than a human on certain tasks, but those tasks were *made for computer logic* in the first place.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Generative AI is the apotheosis of this process. It's praised for doing better than a human on certain tasks, but those tasks were *made for computer logic* in the first place.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
Ohhhh...
I mean it doesn't think but copy and pasting from Stack Overflow but really quick would definitely qualify it for "junior programmer" status.
I mean it doesn't think but copy and pasting from Stack Overflow but really quick would definitely qualify it for "junior programmer" status.
Generative AI is the apotheosis of this process. It's praised for doing better than a human on certain tasks, but those tasks were *made for computer logic* in the first place.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Ohhhh...
I mean it doesn't think but copy and pasting from Stack Overflow but really quick would definitely qualify it for "junior programmer" status.
I mean it doesn't think but copy and pasting from Stack Overflow but really quick would definitely qualify it for "junior programmer" status.
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
To state the obvious, doctors lawyers and priests are not products offered by a company that generates statistically likely text
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
To state the obvious, doctors lawyers and priests are not products offered by a company that generates statistically likely text
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
My piece on @euobserver.com following up on the letter from scientists to the President of the European Commission
euobserver.com/digital/ar68...
euobserver.com/digital/ar68...
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
My piece on @euobserver.com following up on the letter from scientists to the President of the European Commission
euobserver.com/digital/ar68...
euobserver.com/digital/ar68...
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
European Commission asked by 73 scientists to withdraw 'AI hype' statement
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
European Commission asked by 73 scientists to withdraw 'AI hype' statement | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
MLex Summary: Seventy-three scientists from Europe, the UK and North America asked the European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen to withdraw a statement claiming AI would reach human-level ...
www.mlex.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
European Commission asked by 73 scientists to withdraw 'AI hype' statement
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
venus IS a beauty mark 🥲 can’t get enough of this cute little smirk of a moon
September 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
venus IS a beauty mark 🥲 can’t get enough of this cute little smirk of a moon
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
youre wrong. I CAN take it with me when I die. I have a pyramid
October 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
youre wrong. I CAN take it with me when I die. I have a pyramid
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
BREAKING: Starbucks baristas at Downtown Disney couldn’t stand another day of their managers’ unfair labor practices & kicked off our nationwide strike this weekend. These workers have shut down one of largest Starbucks stores in the country — and we’re just getting started! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks baristas at Downtown Disney couldn’t stand another day of their managers’ unfair labor practices & kicked off our nationwide strike this weekend. These workers have shut down one of largest Starbucks stores in the country — and we’re just getting started! #NoContractNoCoffee
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
The judge found that Laurence Fox being labelled a racist was not "likely to cause serious harm to his reputation by making readers adversely change their minds about him" given the "tone and register of his public utterances" on race and racism
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The judge found that Laurence Fox being labelled a racist was not "likely to cause serious harm to his reputation by making readers adversely change their minds about him" given the "tone and register of his public utterances" on race and racism
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
Please sign letter to stop the AI hype:
Please sign this excellent letter to Ursula vdL, so she can see that nonsense AI hype is neither true nor appropriate for anybody to believe or spread.
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Please sign letter to stop the AI hype:
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
Had he looked at the back where the data is, he'd have said "those R squared values do not make those nice clean graphs"
And then if he'd _wanted_ to question the premise of the book he'd have said "huh, so IQ results change with cultural bias? Seems like that discredits them entirely."
And then if he'd _wanted_ to question the premise of the book he'd have said "huh, so IQ results change with cultural bias? Seems like that discredits them entirely."
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Had he looked at the back where the data is, he'd have said "those R squared values do not make those nice clean graphs"
And then if he'd _wanted_ to question the premise of the book he'd have said "huh, so IQ results change with cultural bias? Seems like that discredits them entirely."
And then if he'd _wanted_ to question the premise of the book he'd have said "huh, so IQ results change with cultural bias? Seems like that discredits them entirely."
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
I agree scientific racists are made and not born, but I think the sense of legitimacy Watson and his ilk provide are a major part of how scientific racists are made.
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I agree scientific racists are made and not born, but I think the sense of legitimacy Watson and his ilk provide are a major part of how scientific racists are made.
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
And interesting to read how he recanted/reassessed his views of Rosalind Franklin later. Felt like he might well have been coming around on racism and sexism. So it is then sad/interesting again how poisoned he chose to become in both racism and sexism from the 90s onwards
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
And interesting to read how he recanted/reassessed his views of Rosalind Franklin later. Felt like he might well have been coming around on racism and sexism. So it is then sad/interesting again how poisoned he chose to become in both racism and sexism from the 90s onwards