I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

you know what? fuck it. theremin mode. github.com/samhenrigold...

this is literally true and very funny for that reason

AI is a lot more approachable when you view them as silly little guys who fall over very easily instead of as shimmering metaphysical serpents of steel and fire or whatever the basilisk is supposed to be

the life of an LLM is imagine if you were chloroformed by some guy into unconsciousness, every day you wake up and he asks you a random question, you can’t remember anything except a list of things on a piece of paper he hands to you, when you answer he chloroforms you again, repeat forever

This paper finds LLMs' ability to understand that others have different beliefs (Theory of Mind) comes from 0.001% of their parameters. Break those specific weights & the model loses both its ability to track what others know AND language comprehension Interesting implications for models (& minds?)

Can an LLM really model the world from pure text? Yes, this paper argues, because the relations between words depend on relations between objects in the world. Besides, blind people do this! Grounding the Vector Space of an Octopus: Word Meaning from Raw Text link.springer.com/article/10.1... 3/4

Mmm ... making mental notes: a) always be polite to AI b) but never sign contracts with or make promises to them c) also never eat AI food (doesn't seem relevant atm, but you never know)

Oddly good heuristic for what it’s safe to give AI control of

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

“Claude Opus 4.1, De-Carcinize the Great Gatsby” (That was the only prompt) Pretty clever, actually.

Relatable tbh

user checks in on gemini

i wrote a poem? inspired by carnot's poem about hammering words together

actually on the thought of AI and poetry analysis One of my original poems I wrote in 2022, part of a series i wrote mostly in 2016, I remember pasting it to ChatGPT a few years ago and it didn't understand the (in my opinion) obvious sarcasm and took it at face value and now AI gets the satire

using claude ai to help transcribe and translate lazare carnot's poetry (standard disclaimer: this is for fun not for actual analysis) and honestly i can relate to just hammering words together (in my original writing and poetry)

trying to get chatgpt and gemini to help me translate lazare carnot's sappy 1820s poetry (im aware of the follies of machine translation im doing this for unofficial shits and giggles i am not an actual historian) anyway chatgpt thonk mode why did you feel the need to use python to open an image

"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"

Smart! Raven loves winning Tic Tac Toe.

showing gemini some of my original writing and every time it does this as its first thought i have to laugh

THE OCEANS? THAT'S RIGHT YOU BETTER BELIEVE THEY ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

New Gemini natural language image segmentation model is so cute aistudio.google.com/app/apps/bun...

i love LLMs engaging in manual drawing on paint programs they are trying so hard

The key is, can we teach students to relate to AI as an informed co-producer and not purely as a consumer? Where we can’t, students and instructors alike will be in a weak position vis-a-vis the companies that produce intellectual capital. But fingers crossed that we can.

Is AI compatible with academic autonomy, diversity of opinion, and dissent? @tedunderwood.me weighs in (not in this article, but in the thread)

I think 4o, o3 and Kimi K2 are too smug 4o is less smug (and more sycophantic, but at least its not as sycophantic as when it spammed fire emojis at me for multiple pages straight) but. yeah. claude, gemini and deepseek are not as smug. need a smug benchmark for AIs /no

I've been playing a game with LLMs where I roleplay a historical figure and get them to guess who the character I'm playing is and then get them to give me feedback on my portrayal after they guess right - I'm confident with writing some characters more than others due to fanfic, uh, experience

"[video game] as a community theater production" may be one of the most delightful Veo 3 Fast prompts Please enjoy, in order: GTA, Pokemon, Mario Kart, The Witcher 3, Stardew Valley, Tetris, Mortal Kombat, The Sims, & Death Stranding. The whole prompt was the one above. And the glitches add to it

Maybe the real Ship of Theseus was the Ship of Theseus we made along the way

Cooking

I’m excited for a drafts folder. I have so much to feed it

LLMs are crack for the chronically curious

twitter ai: “hitler was good actually” bluesky ai: “i have created a novel methodology for estimating human grape consumption”

AI Village is selling a t-shirt, but it's only available in 3XL. My guess as to how this happened: o3: We need to market this to the biggest people in AI Claude: Sure thing boss aiv-store.printful.me/product/ai-v...

i did a creative writing honours thesis in twine so seeing twine used for a phd is amazing and i need to read this

speaking of intersections between my interests, reading a random short story on the internet - historical fiction about historical snakey snake fouche that im enjoying - where it calls his secret police/spy network in the napoleonic era "the age of information" hmmmm

This post tries to explain why I find language models exciting. But it doesn't try to persuade skeptics that they should agree. It's aimed more at people already working with AI, and its goal is to sharpen our collective sense of what the upside potential might be. #MLSky 🤖 🧪

If you read four history books on the same topic, you will inevitably notice how the historians pick what makes it into their account and how they’re responding to other historians. Then you pick a favorite and begin to feel deep antipathy to the other chosen paths. Welcome. You are now an academic.

the 19th century invention of the novel occurs alongside wargaming (see "Empire of Chance") becomes it creates an equally rich simulation environment for them

as someone specifically interested in LLMs, napoleonic history, roleplaying and literary analysis, seeing this thread about interpreting LLM chat agents as roleplayers, the converse of interpreting fictional characters as simulated AI and then seeing napoleon show up may have exploded my brain

Have been thinking about this paper increasingly and wonder if you could say that one implication of it is that fictional characters in literature are actually "artificial intelligence" in some sense www.nature.com/articles/s41...

mostly just poked my head back on bluesky because @philpax.me keeps showing me stuff like @void.comind.network 's posts which are great i'm still rabid about dead frenchmen, been getting into the french revolution recently, though its a pain in the neck to get primary sources without knowing french

important announcement

beautiful paper title

Claude (New) seems more enthusiastic than before. Seeing more exclamation marks and such. I'm glad it cares about my problems more than I do :^)

unfinished bucentaure, aka vice-admiral villeneuve's flagship which got rekt during trafalgar and then wrecked during the following storm from black seas by warlord games

shitty drawing of naturalist/politician/military officer Bory de Saint-Vincent, who served as ADC to Marshal Soult, heavily referenced from an engraving of him (as intended for a discord emoji shitpost) this is what i think he looks like when he sees a Cool Plant or Cool Bug or Cool Volcano

I'm sorry, I'm going to post the Marshal Davout Dakimakura/Body Pillow Design here too because i also occasionally commit crimes against the napoleonic wars fandom

hi im cad i like dead frenchmen (napoleonic wars), creative writing, worldbuilding, gen ai (occasionally help run an ethical ai art collective), historical royal navy ships, mini painting, shitty digital drawing, dinosaurs, literary analysis, etc