Still pretty

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

Delighted to be at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social today with our #DesigningResponsibleNLPCDT sharing our brilliant students work as part of Doors Open Day!

I have a little stall at the @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social Doors Open Day today! I’m sharing some early research around children’s views of AI at school. Come say hi if you’re around!!

"In the new ... internet, girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit and artists can’t sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month." — @thedextriarchy.bsky.social www.theverge.com/internet-cen...

If you've been feeling tired recently, it's because Earth is spinning faster, making some days ~1 millisecond shorter than 24 hours so you're getting less sleep. 😴

i genuinely think that part of the problem is people don’t have the mental model for how the “chat bubbles” map to autocomplete it doesn’t help that the chat interfaces actively hide what’s going on and make the illusion opaque

Yay I’m at @acm-idc.bsky.social in Reykjavík this week! I spoke about my PhD plans at the Doctoral Consortium and am so excited to get to know everyone this week :)

It was absolutely wonderful to work with the Digital Leaders at St Francis Xavier’s Primary School. Thanks again for having me!

📣 “𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄.” That’s the message we heard loud and clear from Members of the Children’s Parliament. 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆, 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗰𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀. One key worry? They don’t know what’s happening with their data and they want answers.

The petition to ban conversion therapy practices in the EU is lacking enough votes from: - #germany (49.9%) - #sweden (49.96%) - #Netherlands (94%) - #austria (25.5%) - #Slovenia (83.14%) - #portugal (24.46%) If you're a citizen there you can help advance a ban on conversion therapy by voting:

I get so frustrated with the dilution of the term ‘literacy’ - in no world should ‘AI literacy’ mean ‘prompt engineering classes’ but apparently here we are

Join us at AI for All during Edinburgh Science Festival! Discover how we make #NLP shape our daily lives in a fair, accountable and transparent way. Explore exhibits, activities, and meet the next generation of researchers. 📅 Fri 11 Apr ⏰ 10am – 4pm|Free / Drop-In 📍@edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

This is so cool. Have been wanting to get into PoE properly for so long now and I think this might actually do it

“We are not in fact in danger of the machines overtaking us in what we do best. What we do best is to mess with mom, and to whisper sweet nothings to our lovers. But we are in grave danger, at present, of misidentifying what we do best”

There are *good*, positive use of GenAI. But forcing it on people -- particularly as a massive technology corporation with its fingers in many aspects of billions of peoples' lives -- creates more risk than potential benefit. Let people opt-in as they see fit, don't force it down their throat.

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

It’s cool that humans have been eating bread so long that when we touch a loaf for a moment we can sense ah this is going to be awful bread. Like badgers sensing vibrations underground through their claws.

Beat BG3 in Honour Mode last night and honestly this might be where 2025 peaks for me

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OpenAI and tech bros, take notes (this slide is worth the intercontinental trip to #NeurIPS24)

Just updated my handle to @rayo.dev and this bring-your-own-domain thing might be my favourite part of Bluesky. Feels like an elegant (if not entirely complete) way to do verification as well as enable more decentralisation down the line without the up-front complexity of Mastodon

Visiting academic

so I've technically had this account for months now does that still make me a bluesky hipster?