Michele Elam is a Professor of Humanities at @Stanford
’s English Department. In 2023, she wrote "Poetry Will Not Optimize; or, What Is Literature to AI?” which won the 2023 Norman Foerster Prize as best essay of the year. Read it here: 14/n https://
bit.ly/3OMzmda
CULTURE
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Poetry Will Not Optimize: Literature and AI Ethics
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Women Leaders at DataRobot Share Career Confidence Journey
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As #WomensHistoryMonth comes to a close, a few of the trailblazing women at DataRobot share how they have built confidence and resilience throughout their careers. Angie Sullivan, VP of Accounting https://
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Second Annual AI Film Festival Coming to New York and LA
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The second annual AI Flim Fsetivla is coming to New York and LA. Request your ticket at http://
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Anti-AI Influencers Appeal to Workers Resistant to Reskilling
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The audience comprised of people who are not eager to learn a new job or learn their job anew is much larger, which may explain part of the success of the anti AI influencers.
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Humanity Descending Into Stupid Design Era
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Our species left survival of the fittest and intelligent design behind and is descending into the era of stupid design.
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God Bounded by Mathematics: Logos and Computational Universes
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I think that God is not more powerful than mathematics. God is bound by and inscribed into the logos. The logos can explore itself only by building computational representations, which it has to manipulate step by step. But the logos may run and perhaps trace entire universes.
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Protecting Information Systems From Ideological Capture in Education
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How can we incentivize a meme factory against being taken over by ideologues, especially if it’s the certified top level indoctrinator of the teachers and the administration?
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Patron Saints of Technology Standards and Ethics
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Given the banning of the Lena image from computer science journals (which is what the subject of the photo wanted), re-upping this thread on the secret Patron Saints of Technology standards.
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Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman for Profit-Driven Violations
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Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman for Violating the Company’s Principles: Musk said the prominent A.I. start-up had put profits and commercial interests ahead of seeking to benefit humanity. https://
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Platforms Control Information Ecosystem Beyond Trade Issues
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It's not "simply" a trade issue given that these platforms happen to control our information ecosystem, within the US and beyond. It's a nice feeling to reach a strong conclusion and close the case and stop thinking about it. But here, doing so isn't appropriate given the stakes.