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Alex Hanna

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Director of Research, DAIR Institute. Roller derby athlete/announcer, BayAreaDerby. 🇪🇬⚧ She/her/هي
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Chelsea Clifford's avatar 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's avatar Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social
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I've read the whole paper, and it's also insulting to Abeba's intelligence that you suggest she didn't. And yes, the whole thing is about "intelligence".

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Alex Hanna's avatar Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social
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They replaced it with citations from no psychologists trying to define general intelligence -- the deferred to Francois Chollett and Ben Goertzel, both AI researchers. The latter is someone who is a big enthusiast of the singularity and other TESCREAL nonsense.

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Today we lost an absolute giant in labor organizing and activism. An immense hole will be left by her passing. Rest in power, Jane.

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David Kaib's avatar David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social
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I am currently organizing a few reading groups for No Shortcuts. I would love to help you do this.

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Jane was a treasure and her influence will be eternal. She lives on in all of the organizers she mentored directly and indirectly. Her memory will be a blessing.

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Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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"The core of organizing is raising expectations." - Jane McAlevey

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Hypervisible 's avatar Hypervisible @hypervisible.bsky.social
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Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

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Paris Marx's avatar Paris Marx @parismarx.bsky.social
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

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Alex Hanna's avatar Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social
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Marge says: let's open this pit up

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John Breen's avatar John Breen @acab.dad
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This is an important fight to save historic Black cemeteries in my area from data center development.

The Coalition to Save Historic Thoroughfare is a good group and some of them are good friends of mine.

AI is one of the big drivers of data center development

www.insidenova.com/headlines/bl...

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Clarkesworld's avatar Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com
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I didn't plan on making these daily updates, but we crossed into the 200s over the holiday and that seems like a reason to celebrate. Only 286 subscriptions remain before we've erased all the losses caused by Amazon!

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI.

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Doctora Malka Older's avatar Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social
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universal basic electricity minimum for every human on the planet before AI gets another milliwatt.

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Hypervisible 's avatar Hypervisible @hypervisible.bsky.social
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“The settlement between Robert Williams and the city of Detroit was filed in federal court on Friday and the case dismissed. In May, Detroit City Council approved paying Williams $300,000 for damages as part of the settlement.”

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD's avatar Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.bsky.social
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It’s not even noon and I have a wild story for everyone.

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Alex Hanna's avatar Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social
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I love this show much. Can't wait to watch S2

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Stone Cold Jane Austen 🏳️‍⚧'s avatar Stone Cold Jane Austen 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social
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I'm begging everyone who has Peacock to watch We Are Lady Parts season 2. It's so good and I need more of this show. Or if you don't have Peacock, pony up for just one month so you can watch this incredible show. Please.

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John Morrison's avatar John Morrison @localcelebrity.bsky.social
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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.

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Emily M. Bender's avatar Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social
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I'm sorry to report that one of the articles (GPTs are GPTs) we discuss in this episode has been published in Science. I have tons of respect for AAAS but this is a huge miss. On the upside, if you'd like to be entertained for an hour about why, here you go:

w/@alexhanna.bsky.social

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Emily M. Bender's avatar Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 34: Senate Dot Roadmap Dot Final Dot No Really Dot Docx

... in which @alexhanna.bsky.social and I dive into Sen Schumer's AI report and are dismayed at what happens when our electeds listen to the hype.

Thanks to @whatulysses.bsky.social for production.

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Alex Hanna's avatar Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social
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Not saying that this isn't happening, but note that this is based on a study published by MEMRI, which is an Israeli propaganda arm founded by former Israeli intelligence agents.

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Jon Green's avatar Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social
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Kendrick Lamar teaches us that, in public debate, refuting your opponent's arguments point by point is less effective than identifying your opponent's single greatest weakness and maintaining message discipline.

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Emily M. Bender's avatar Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social
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Next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live-stream!

@al2.bsky.social will join me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to take apart yet another paper-shaped AI hype artifact unleashed from a "top" industry lab (could that be the summit of bullshit mountain?):

Monday June 24
9:30am Pacific

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Untitled Goose Name 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Untitled Goose Name 🏳️‍⚧️ @goosname.bsky.social
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This ad I just got on LinkedIn gave me psychic damage.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮's avatar Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com
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Back in my management co silting days, busy businessmen who were too busy to read but wanted to sound smart paid consultants to summarize books for them. It became a bunch of apps (Blinkist, Headway, etc.), and remains a mainstay of the hustle cult. I hate that there is a market for this 🙁

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Michelle's avatar Michelle @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social
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If you go to the press and talk about how the computer can feel, your computer license should be revoked. Elephants call each other by their names. Life is too precious. We don’t need the computer that drinks water

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“Guess what, humans get it wrong too” is a really pointless reply to an example of a technology that falsely implicates someone and alters their life forever.

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Alex Hanna's avatar Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social
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Displeasure against the machine

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"Calling their mistakes 'hallucinations' isn’t harmless: it lends itself to the confusion that the machines are in some way misperceiving but are nonetheless trying to convey something that they believe or have perceived."

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Matt Novak's avatar Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
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I don’t think it’s anyone’s duty to personally observe the heinous images coming out of Rafah right now but I do wish U.S. TV did fewer panel discussions debating “free speech” on college campuses and gave Americans a more honest accounting of the war crimes our government funds every single day.

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Alex Hanna's avatar Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social
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Glory wormhole is incredibly DS9-coded

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