Well, this week was… something else. Last week I didn’t put together a proper news overview because I went skiing, and while I was up in the mountains I’d occasionally check the news on BlueSky – and it wasn’t looking very happy. Elon Musk claimed all sorts of data and systems for himself, all development […]
Week 4’s AI news
It was another wild week of AI craziness! The Guardian:I’ve written before about all the madness in the UK, and this week they’ve launched something new over there —a tool powered by AI that helps Cabinet Ministers understand how people might react to their policies. And naturally, I can’t help but ask: do you really […]
Week 3’s AI news
I’m trying something new again! Instead of endlessly bookmarking articles because I think “I’ll come back to this later,” from now on I’ll start a blog post each week and update it throughout the week. That way, by the end of the week I’ll have a nice overview, and I’ll hopefully be able to easily […]
What does it mean for a university to have an opinion?
In this thorough piece, The American Prospect explains that while some people might hope that universities will save democracy, but that that might be tricky since they themselves are not at all democratic. This piece reminded me of a lecture I gave right before the Christmas break for students about AI & education, in which […]
Charlie Chaplin and the death of the internet
We had a teenager over for New Year’s Eve, and one of his biggest hobby is to explain to me and my husband (“boomers” as he calls us even though we are millenials) what terminally online kids do these days; which words and memes and emoji are still in use. And this is how my […]
