Friends, my 8yr old just released his first single. If you have a moment, please give it a spin. (It’s about French fries.)

spotify.link/aeELxXeHqJb

Hey KFC. My 8yr old son made this song about fries. He loves KFC the best. spotify.link/UslO7WSrnJb

It’s my birthday and I’ve got a new single out.

Thanks a lot Hertz. I did what your rep advised following a flat on the assurance that the £150 would be reimbursed only now to be told when returning the car that it wouldn’t. If your rep was actually trained and gave accurate info I would have done differently.

Vale Geordie Walker. Absolutely gutting news.

What's most painful when you write about universities? The utter, utter ignorance about them from outside the sector. Let me present some 'common sense' and reality:
1. 'It'll be ex-polys that suffer in the crunch': not really, many have few debts and a low cost base. 1/?

It me!

The FTC is investigating OpenAI and the document outlining their questions is fascinating.

🧵Some highlights:

Realities of Brexit Britain 👏🏻

Packing with massive anxiety about forgetting essential cables.

So I followed Gary Marcus's suggestion and had my undergrad class use ChatGPT for a critical assignment. I had them all generate an essay using a prompt I gave them, and then their job was to 'grade' it--look for hallucinated info and critique its analysis. *All 63* essays had

It keeps getting better!

More really, really exciting news. Yes, more. Stay tuned. 😘

“A degraded conception of creativity has taken hold in recent years. Nothing is original, techno-pundits like to say—‘everything is a remix.’ This is a banality that grew up to become a stupidity.” 🙏🏼
—⁦William Deresiewicz⁩
persuasion.community/p/why-ai-will-…

At a loose end on Sunday night? Come.

Students in my senior seminar on #AIEthics performed an external audit of OpenAI chatGPT and DALL-E, assessing these services for ethical and social impact across a number of adversarial tests. I’ve compiled some of the results below. 🧵

Huzzah! We’re playing Dark Mofo!

Class is what we never talk about in Academia. I remember going to lunch with another grad student and having to spend my entire week's food budget on a bowl of soup at this fancy place she chose. That was the last time I accepted a lunch invitation.

Useful thread on AI, esp the difference between art and images; 'producing art' and 'being used to produce art'

Review of ARC now published & there are some GREAT recommendations.

My favourite: 'We recommend that...the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) and Engagement and Impact (EI) exercises be discontinued.'

education.gov.au/higher-educati…

Jason Clare MP: take note!

#highered