Thank you, Congresswoman Jayapal!
@emilymbender
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AI Companies Release Flawed Software Without Caring About Quality
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Yeah, our software sucks, but the world is just gonna have to deal, you know? Because this kind of software sucks but we're still gonna keep putting out there. https://
vice.com/en/article/88x
dez/generative-ai-is-a-disaster-and-companies-dont-seem-to-really-care
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Can Unprogrammable Systems Be True Programming Languages?
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In what sense is something that you can't program to do anything precisely a programming language?
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Turing Completeness Does Not Equal Program Capability
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Well, no. Just because you write run a Turing-complete program doesn't mean that all programs are Turing-complete.
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Diverse Expert Communities Over Great Men in Policymaking
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And YES policymaking deserves and requires deep, thoughtful work by experts — but this should be diverse communities of experts and not single "great men".
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LLMs Are Not Universal Turing Machines
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Sigh, no. LLMs are not "approaching" universal Turing machines. They are specific programs run on computers which *are* universal Turing machines. https://
ft.com/content/5c4120
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Automation Text Generation Differs from Commercial Generative AI
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That is, you can use automation to generate text based on non-textual representations of information. This is NOT the same thing as what folks are selling as "generative AI".
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Synthetic Text Generation: LLMs versus Traditional NLG
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Czarniawska’s work looks interesting. But I think you and I aren't using "synthetic text" in the same way. I use it to refer to the kind of untethered generation that comes out of LLMs used as synthetic text extruding machines. Pre-"gen AI" hype, there was sensible work on NLG
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Course Marketing Criticism: GenAI Terminology and Educational Clarity
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If the course is really about critical exploration that would be valuable. That is NOT how it is being marketed (the copy that Meredith & I are reacting to.) And calling everything "genAI" is no more helpful than calling everything "AI", really.