yeah, this is why I like framing AI stuff in terms of cybernetics. it really can be an extension of your capability, but it requires you to think of it that way and plan your work differently.

This might surprise some people given I'm very pro-AI, but I feel this on a visceral level about my own creative writing process. Coding? Whatever, I'm happy for an LLM to write most of that for me. But I want to solve *these* problems myself, because that feels intrinsic to my creative expression.

AI is interesting to me because it has mainstreamed “what does it mean to be human” and “what is the value of creativity and labor?” Unfortunately it’s also mainstreamed a lot of really dumb responses to those questions

Our GitHub repository is now public! github.com/elixir-lang/...

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

These three paragraphs are so spot on

i prefer my AI content explicitly hallucinogenic and nightmarish

Joe Burgess at #nime2025 with a brief history of the loom (and a fascinating aside about pre-histories of textiles)

Jordie Shier at #nime2025

Michaella Moon at #nime2025: notation and textbooks along can’t teach Gugak…

Victor Shepardson on the living looper at #nime2025

Lewis Wolstanholme on the creative potential of drum feedback at #nime2025

if you’re in Canberra this week (either for #nime2025 or otherwise) then my installation PANIC! is installed in the ANU School of Art & Design foyer gallery

congrats to Karen Brad for being the official theorist of #nime2025

One of the most lucid tweets I ever saw regarding AI was along the lines „We created a machine that acted like middle management and believed that meant it had a soul instead of understanding it meant that middle management didn’t.“

In terms of art, there are SO many great artists thinking critically about AI and its place in society. @eryk.bsky.social is one I consistently recommend as an artist who sees value in expression through the kinds of ecosystems of noise through which AI models articulate. Fascinating work.

Worthwhile reading. Some of the features that John rightly criticizes in AI writing are shared by the sort of committee reports and consensus papers that emerge from workshops and symposia because someone felt that there had to be a “product“ associated with the meeting.

the e/acc approach to the problem of AI research credibility jacobbuckman.com/2021-05-29-p...

Great piece by @benswift.me for @timeshighered.bsky.social highlighting how dynamic the #GenAI space is - and that universities are well advised not to keep all their eggs in one AI basket by signing exclusive deals. Strong agree with Ben's arguments. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/deeps...

OK, shit is getting real. A lot of teachers that understand the limits of straight LLMs — and know when an assignment falls outside them — are going to need to recalibrate in 2025.

look i made it the 1979 ibm warning

Do this in 2025:

that delivery is getting out a lot of batters better than Harshit Rana #AUSvsIND

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

i would do one of those posts like all the other writers about how much more traffic i'm getting to citationneeded.news from bluesky than i do from twitter or threads or whatever, but i don't collect that information because i don't like tracking my readers 🤷‍♀️

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Psst…You want to know about the NASA website that spells out your name in Landsat imagery. 🧪 landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...

A version of Missile Command for the Commodore 64 where the bottom of your screen is the game state in memory and missiles cause memory corruption: csdb.dk/release/?id=.... In the video below, a missile broke my controls and caused my cursor to get stuck moving down and to the left.

Who here likes books?

ANU colleagues - not sure how many are here, but here's my two cents: I'll be voting to NOT defer this pay rise. Three reasons: I sat at the bargaining table most of last year to get it. People need it. We've been given no evidence it saved jobs when we deferred it last time.

Here's my lab www.unsw.edu.au/arts-design-... (co-directed with the great Patricia Flanagan). Come and do a PhD with us! You get to live in Sydney and be at the 19th greatest university in the world (according to a very dubious evaluation process loosely grounded in Machiavellian intelligence).

slowly, then all at once

we just need to get The Grade Cricketer on here and then there will be nothing left of value (Aussie culturally-speaking) left on X

I live ~136m from the nearest shops and I started walking my children to the shops when they were about 1 year old. It's more useful than a big backyard I reckon.

Basic goal with social media is to be where the grad students are. They know what the techniques of the future are

I feel like half of programming is remembering how weird stuff works and the other half is setting things up so that you do not have to remember the weird stuff

live coding tutorial with lil data went well #algorave #idm #glitch #noise

Classic Langton's Ant. That highway sure is satisfying. #creativecoding #mathart

Hear ye, hear ye! 📜📯 It hath been decreed by royal proclamation that #ElixirLang shall be our rallying cry henceforth! 🎉 Mark thy profiles and spread the word through the land— #Elixir alone shall leave the townsfolk befuddled and bemused! Long live clarity, long live #ElixirLang! 🎊

Together with Mark Andrejevic, i have just published compelling evidence that @elonmusk’s posts are being algorithmically boosted. Worrying for US democracy. Read about it in this latest article: theconversation.com/tech-billion...

I think the Cybernetic Studio has found its next exhibition format

Really great news for the Elixir community - Oban Web will be free and Open Source! #ElixirLang#MyElixirStatus

See what the #ANU School of #Cybernetics got up to at the #ff24 #ff2024 Fantastic Futures #conference last week - celebrating all things #AI and #ML in the #GLAM sector - hosted by the #NFSA in conjunction with #AI4LAM last week in #Canberra. cybernetics.anu.edu.au/news/2024/10...

literally everyone uses hyperbole all the time these days

a computer is "anything that can crash if you send commands in a certain order"

well, the other place sucks, so let’s hang out here for a bit and see how it goes