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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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think i need to stay away from ppl today it's just not safe for anyone to be around me
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Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.bsky.social |
4306 followers 238 following 1023 posts
Cognitive scientist at the intersection of complex adaptive systems, afro-feminism, AI ethics, algorithm/dataset audits, and decolonial approaches to tech. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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think i need to stay away from ppl today it's just not safe for anyone to be around me
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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lol, what have i accomplished. i'm a postdoc with no job securities and my ambitions plans constantly get pushbacks and/or no institutional support
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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or rather really frustrated with how shitty being a Black woman in academia is
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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that time of year where i’m fed up of academia and contemplating what the future holds
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Chelsea Clifford
@ditchontologist.bsky.social
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"One query to ChatGPT uses approximately as much electricity as could light one lightbulb for about 20 minutes."
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Alex Hanna
@alexhanna.bsky.social
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Thanks to @darakerr.bsky.social for talking with me about the high climate cost of generative AI, Google's reneging on its climate goals, and the real existential crisis facing us on NPR Morning Edition today.
www.npr.org/2024/07/10/n...
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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this paper remains undefeated The Grey Hoodie Project: Big Tobacco, Big Tech, and the Threat on Academic Integrity (Abdalla and Abdalla 2021)
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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this AI buble will drag so many vulnerable and marginalised folx as well as the already shaky social structures we currently have to support such folx, before it bursts
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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despite no benefit & multitude of harms, AI companies aggressively push GenAI everywhere & successful adoption depends on public perception of AI. how do prominent venues like NYT report on AI? who’s voices & perspectives are most frequently cited in NYT articles? www.saysmaybe.com/latest-work/...
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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so relatable
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Yair Wallach
@yairwallach.bsky.social
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I will repeat myself. In the absence of a ceasefire deal *this summer*, the displacement of close to two million Palestinians in Gaza (and beyond it) could very likely become permanent ethnic cleansing. Just like it happened in 1948.
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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this is freaking scary
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Annie Dorsen
@anniedorsen.bsky.social
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"And there is never an unbiased data set and there will never be an unbiased data set, because these are social concepts that don’t have a single objective representation." YES.
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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whatever genuinely important point you’re trying to make, the moment you use AI generated image to illustrate it, the moment you lose me
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🏳️⚧️ The Josie Zone
@josie.zone
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The quotes from sf writer Ted Chiang are GOLD
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Hypervisible
@hypervisible.bsky.social
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“There is no specific purpose, there is no specific use case for generative AI. It’s just been a technology over the past couple of years that’s just floating around looking for purpose, looking for some kind of uptake.”
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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💜 🙌🏾
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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this was fun
english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...
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@danmcquillan.bsky.social
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I'll be joining a panel at the Scottish Parliament's 'Festival of Politics' on Aug 20th to discuss 'Who controls AI - the legality and ethics?' www.festivalofpolitics.scot/events/who-c... where I will argue for ways of resisting AI that go beyond legality and ethics.
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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this one will appear in Language Sciences but yeah, not really good spaces specifically for this kind of work... happy to chat if i can be of any help
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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dead 😂 😂 😂
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atreides nuts
@afivegantenna.bsky.social
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oh, it’s microsoft research. this is an ad, not a research paper
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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the way people talk about "genAI misuse" as if the technology has well defined uses to begin with guess, what gets under my skin is how this “misuse” narrative puts the onus of accountability on users/others and away from the creators/developers
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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sorry but the entire paper is about intelligence (AGI) and testing gpt-4 peripheral (a way they attempted to demonstrate the existence of AGI) so i would say that providing a clear and rigorous definition is a prerequisite
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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that's a fair point
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Athul K. Acharya
@athul.acharya.cc
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In the end, of course, so does the argument for any intelligence
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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so wish it was about "adjusted gross income" too
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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where is the lie 😂
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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and we have a new paper on this coming out soon 🙌🏾
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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"language" cuz current LLMs aren't even doing language fully
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J.M. Berger
@intelwire.bsky.social
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"We believe" "could" "reasonably" "incomplete" lolol
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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oh yes!
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Alex Hanna
@alexhanna.bsky.social
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also relies on eugenics
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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nailed it
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Robin Z
@firepile.bsky.social
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It's a complex formula of (vibes) + (available VC funding) / access to media hype machine
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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seriously tho, what’s the most rigorous and empirically supported argument you know of for AI systems exhibiting AGI / superintelligence ?
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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the argument for existence of AGI rests on “we believe”
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Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
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Trump raped a woman, was revealed as being in constant contact with a sex trafficker, stole nuclear secrets, is old, forged electoral certificates, was convicted of 34 felonies, committed fraud, is literally on the Saudi payroll, sent a mob to hang his VP but the opponent is also old.
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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how is it that the more i try to put my ducks in a row, the more they scatter
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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the amount of folx who think that the solution to bias in gen AI/big techs lack of quality data is to mobilise the public to crowdsource quality, labelled training data is astounding. often with no acknowledgement or mention of how this is extractive labour, all for the benefit of tech monopolies
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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exhibit 7259 that much of current “AI” is pattern finding thorough optimization processes
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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i try to not be mean to ppl unnecessarily but what's the point of this post apart from reinforcing toxic culture
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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the whole thing smells of scam
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CNN
@cnn.com
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Nearly 2 million people have been displaced in Gaza – almost the entire population – after the Israeli military last week ordered a further 80,000 people to evacuate parts of Gaza City amid a renewed ground operation, the latest UN figures show.
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Kashana
@kashana.bsky.social
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“Now that we know felons can be white, we’re massive fans of crime.”
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Miranda Yaver
@mirandayaver.bsky.social
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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.
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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴
@knilirabaj.bsky.social
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The sperm donor guy is super nasty. I just want to acknowledge that a lot of these people are doing lowkey eugenics with how they’re picking a donor.
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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the obsession for IQ is like the obsession amongst men for big d. those who don't have it often compensate by shouting the loudest or by buying big cars
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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I fucking hate it
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Dr Abeba Birhane
@abeba.bsky.social
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ML is reviving a long debunked pseudoscience scam that is genetic IQ prediction
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