Hi friends - thank you to my new followers. I’ll be a bit quiet on here for the next few weeks. We welcomed a baby boy at the end of January. Taking some time with our new friend 💚.

(After teaching the first parrot to talk)

"My God, imagine the possibilities! All talking-based work will surely now be replaced by the parrot. From the telephone operator to the talk-show host, all their jobs can be done far cheaper by this miraculous bird!"

I studied rhetoric for this exact reason. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/02/opinion/ai-human-education.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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@tparish (my dad ☺️) and I had a chat about GPT and other large language models. He was curious about my perspective as a rhetor and conversation designer.

Here is a recap of our discussion.

#llms #gpt #chatgpt #conversationalai #digitalrhetoric

https://tomparish.com/2023/01/will-chatgpt-eliminate-the-need-for-conversation-interface-designers/

The CDI festival is tomorrow and it looks like you can still register! I am a big fan of this company and like their perspective on conversation design. Registration is free! This year the theme is Making AI Speak Human.

https://hopin.com/events/making-ai-speak-human

#cdi #ConversationDesign #ai

Literally no point to sharing this other than I think we all deserve a good sunshine snug with a buddy today.

How AI learns “feels right”
https://medium.com/qosmo-lab/how-ai-learns-feels-right-e32a80bfa153

From now on when I read or watch news pieces and pundit discussions about “the economy” I’ll think of this…

We officially kicked off the first reads of the Women in Voice bookclub for 2023. Participants can choose to read one of two articles, Age of Invisible Machines, or When Women Lead. Or you can be an over-achiever and read all four! Please check out WiV if you’re wanting to connect with a supportive group of people celebrating all things #voicefirst, #conversationdesign #AI, #NLP, and #womenintech. https://womeninvoice.org

Oral exams / discussions after each paper is time consuming but perhaps the only reasonable response to AI.
How to Grade Papers Written by AI | by Douglas Rushkoff | Jan, 2023 | Medium #academic @academicchatter #academicchatter #academia #education
https://rushkoff.medium.com/how-to-grade-papers-written-by-ai-4277a78a892

@Anthony @academicchatter back to the an era of orality.

@tanner thank you so much! And yes, same.

Curious if anyone knows of someone writing/researching the #ethics or even #policy around posting infants and children online before they can give consent? I’m curious to learn more.

In just a few short hours it will be completely legal to write, distribute, and profit from story about Dracula, Winnie the Pooh, and Sherlock teaming up to fight crime together. What a time to be alive!

@dreamwisp oh my goodness I hadn’t put this together. This is one of my favorote movies.

Welcome to Zardoz year, kids!

Really excited to be co-facilitating the #womeninvoice #bookclub for 2023. If you’re keen on learning more about #voicetech, #conversationalai #womenintech #ai #aig or related topics, we gladly welcome you to join! Take a moment to join the incredible #wiv group and then join our Slack: https://lnkd.in/dy5YKGZZ  

https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/richard-ngo-large-language-models/

Super interesting interview with OpenAI researcher Richard Ngo. His perspective on AI is surprisingly skeptical and calculated. #openai #gpt

If Musk was anything other than a rich white man, his record as owner of Twitter (or Tesla) would disqualify him from working a management job ever again.

Granting Musk the presumption of competence that comes with the title “world’s richest person” reveals in the starkest terms the way money, no matter how it is achieved, automatically confers the benefit of the doubt in most media.

https://www.damemagazine.com/2022/12/13/elon-musk-twitter/