mighty chen @adjchen_

product - learning experience @amplify prev: math/CS teacher research interests in learning sci, embodiment, media, design he/him/his adjchen.com Merced, CA Joined December 2017

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mighty chen @adjchen_

2 years ago

can't think of a better way to announce that I'm starting a phd program?

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@doordash sends me a coupon to encourage me to use the app 1. Ordered ahead using a coupon that expired yesterday 2. Restaurant didn't receive the order 3. Contact support to bump the order again 4. ChatGPT cancels my order and now I can't use my coupon

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mighty chen @adjchen_

3 years ago

@cmmteach Hey! Could you shoot me a DM? Wasn't able to start one with you yesterday.

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mighty chen @adjchen_

3 years ago

@ddmeyer There's a currently a Women AI Ethicists vs... Martin Shkreli "discussion" going on

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@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru

3 years ago

I am BIG. I am POWERFUL. I write SOFTWARE. I train BIG models. I am MAN. BRRRR.

Martin Shkreli (e/acc) @wagieeacc

3 years ago

@SashaMTL I actually make software. Lord knows wtf you do. The only thing AI and climate change have to do with each other: I'm proud to use my H100 cluster powered by good old fossil fuels.

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Gritty is the Way @Gritty20202

3 years ago

Inarguably true.

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Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren

3 years ago

Starting in 2024, the IRS will provide taxpayers an option to file taxes for free, directly with the government. That means an end to having to hand over $240 and your sensitive, financial data to companies like Intuit and H&R Block.

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David Mimno @dmimno

3 years ago

This is not sad, this is a warning. A company did everything (mostly) right: created a vitally useful free service, worked hard to keep it healthy, shared data for research. Then another company swooped the data and made it compete against itself.

Mahesh Sathiamoorthy @madiator

3 years ago

This makes me sad: observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the…

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David Zipper @DavidZipper

3 years ago

A group of San Franciscans realized that they can disable Waymo and Cruise robotaxis by placing a traffic cone on the vehicle's hood. They're now encouraging others to do it: "Hell no, we do not consent to this."

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Dr. Casey Fiesler is no longer on here @cfiesler

3 years ago

If AI ethicists need a doctorate in CS to be qualified to critique AI, then AI researchers need to have a doctorate in ethics/humanities/philosophy/HCI/etc. to be qualified to build AI.

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Team Two Dogs (@lchanwrites on Mastodon/Bluesky) @lchanwrites

3 years ago

This is an interesting evolution of enshittification as coined by @doctorow in that Google, known for being a search engine and then monetizing searches to piss off both searchers and searchees, will now steal from the sites and pogo it to the top of the search page.

Eric Ravenscraft @LordRavenscraft

3 years ago

I've been in Google's beta test for generative AI search results. I've also been playing Tears of the Kingdom. I wanna talk about how this is a perfect example of how this new approach makes search results way, WAY worse. And that's before we even get to the errors. A 🧵

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mighty chen @adjchen_

3 years ago

@mrchowmath Been thinking a lot of how watching a student solve a problem gives teachers insight as to what misconceptions or structures they're using to solve a problem! teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilde…

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Sean Sweeney @SweenWSweens

3 years ago

I made a new escape room in Desmos! Desmos Escape 2: The Museum Play it here: student.desmos.com/join/tq5tp6 You don't have to log in, but if you do it saves your progress in case you want to come back to it.

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mighty chen @adjchen_

3 years ago

@ddmeyer X can really be anything but sad: weapons creation, targeted marketing, unethical AI applications, tax fraud, privacy invasion

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mighty chen @adjchen_

3 years ago

@davidporas @ATMIM_Updates WHOOO!!!!

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Cookie Monster @MeCookieMonster

3 years ago

You can take away me blue checkmark, but me cookies are off limits!

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Ernie @SesameErnie

3 years ago

Knock knock. @bertsesame

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mighty chen @adjchen_

3 years ago

@juney_moony @unKalculated bruh what

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Kelly Yang @kellyyanghk

3 years ago

Hey @Scholastic we need to talk… I need you to be brave. Love, Kelly Yang

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Peter Nixey @peternixey

3 years ago

I'm in the top 2% of users on StackOverflow. My content there has been viewed by over 1.7M people. And it's unlikely I'll ever write anything there again. Which may be a much bigger problem than it seems. Because it may be the canary in the mine of our collective knowledge. A canary that signals a change in the airflow of knowledge: from human-human via machine, to human-machine only. Don’t pass human, don’t collect 200 virtual internet points along the way. StackOverflow is *the* repository for programming Q&A. It has 100M users & saves man-years of time & wig-factories-worth of grey hair every single day. It is driven by people like me who ask questions that other developers answer. Or vice-versa. Over 10 years I've asked 217 questions & answered 77. Those questions have been read by millions of developers & had tens of millions of views. But since GPT4 it looks less & less likely any of that will happen; at least for me. Which will be bad for StackOverflow. But if I'm representative of other knowledge-workers then it presents a larger & more alarming problem for us as humans. What happens when we stop pooling our knowledge with each other & instead pour it straight into The Machine? Where will our libraries be? How can we avoid total dependency on The Machine? What content do we even feed the next version of The Machine to train on? When it comes time to train GPTx it risks drinking from a dry riverbed. Because programmers won't be asking many questions on StackOverflow. GPT4 will have answered them in private. So while GPT4 was trained on all of the questions asked before 2021 what will GPT6 train on? This raises a more profound question. If this pattern replicates elsewhere & the direction of our collective knowledge alters from outward to humanity to inward into the machine then we are dependent on it in a way that supercedes all of our prior machine-dependencies. Whether or not it "wants" to take over, the change in the nature of where information goes will mean that it takes over by default. Like a fast-growing Covid variant, AI will become the dominant source of knowledge simply by virtue of growth. If we take the example of StackOverflow, that pool of human knowledge that used to belong to us - may be reduced down to a mere weighting inside the transformer. Or, perhaps even more alarmingly, if we trust that the current GPT doesn't learn from its inputs, it may be lost altogether. Because if it doesn't remember what we talk about & we don't share it then where does the knowledge even go? We already have an irreversible dependency on machines to store our knowledge. But at least we control it. We can extract it, duplicate it, go & store it in a vault in the Arctic (as Github has done). So what happens next? I don't know, I only have questions. None of which you'll find on StackOverflow. (I write on AI from a technical and product perspective. If you find that interesting then please do follow me for more)