Damon Beres (dlberes on Threads) replaced every icon on his phone’s Home Screen with a picture of Kermit. (GenAI, ofc.) I love the one for X.

A short blog post reflecting on an experience I've had lately: where students show up with a fully-formed solution to a problem I thought was still too difficult for them. What is AI doing to change the way we learn?
#machinelearning #LLMs […]

I see that the Max Planck Institute is hiring two positions in digital humanities, including a Head of #DH. www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news-events/...

Schmidt Sciences has announced a new funding initiative for work at the intersection of humanities and artificial intelligence. They're also seeking two-page concept papers to help inform the initiative (deadline Aug 23). 🧪 www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...

Melissa Dell’s lab continues to produce amazing newspaper datasets. arxiv.org/abs/2406.09490

I just signed this open letter on behalf of the @internetarchive, and hope you will too.
https://www.battleforlibraries.com/

#books #cdl #copyright #libraries

It looks like the new Claude 3.5 Sonnet model is the new best-available LLM - same price as GPT-4o but longer context and appears to be more capable. Some notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/20/claude-35-sonnet/

The https://claude.ai/ UI to it can now build and then render on-demand […]

Too sweet to wait for @nsaphra.bsky.social to post it herself. Can generative (transformer) models achieve better performance than any individual they trained on? Yes, because low-temperature sampling implicitly performs majority voting on diverse data. #machinelearning arxiv.org/abs/2406.11741 🤖

It used to be a philosophical question for science fiction writers, but it's becoming a practical problem for designers. https://tedunderwood.com/2024/06/15/should-artificial-intelligence-be-person-shaped/

It used to be a philosophical question for science fiction writers, but it's becoming a practical problem for designers. https://tedunderwood.com/2024/06/15/should-artificial-intelligence-be-person-shaped/

IMO Charlie Jane Anders
should get royalties on Apple Intelligence because the model of transparent AI — running mostly on mobile, quietly steering the user via reminders without ever quite becoming perceptible as a personality — is just a Caddy from […]

This study found that LLM-generated stories pass significantly fewer Torrance Test for Creative Writing (TTCW) compared to human-written stories, highlighting the gap in creativity. The paper also discusses the potential for LLMs to assist in creative […]

A team centered at McGill and Harvard argues that LLM "hallucination" is better understood as confabulation, and resembles human habits of using narrative for sense-making. #machinelearning 🤖 arxiv.org/abs/2406.04175

If you're wondering how language models deal with rare words, proper names, and acronyms, this visualizer has you covered. platform.openai.com/tokenizer

From now on I’m checking Night Mode in every dark space just in case there are other phenomena 98% invisible to the naked eye.

Jack Clark’s Import AI newsletter is always fun; this one especially because it explores the shared interest Meta and the CCP have in preventing fine-tuning of their models.

In a “Palantír”-level irony, one of the projects to prevent all further learning is called SOPHON. https://open.substack.com…

If you’d like to make it possible for people to follow you from Bluesky — and you’re in a domain that permits it — all you have to do is follow @bsky.brid.gy.

I think these connections have the potential to strengthen everyone. We need critical mass!

This is a test to see if a message posted in the Fediverse can automatically be forwarded to Bluesky via Bridgyfed:
https://fed.brid.gy/

"Testing, testing, 1 - 2 - 3."

Trying to see if this Bluesky post can make it to the Fediverse on the new bridge.