Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen
Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen
Tee hee. Thankfully, “The FBI noted that use of almanacs or maps may be innocent, ‘the product of legitimate recreational or commercial activities.'”
April Fools Day just isn’t going to be as funny this year… (I saw this at Eirik’s but it’s spread globally)
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My colleague Jessica Witte has just shared a preprint where she compared the emotional arcs of the stories we generated using gpt-4o-mini to those of human-authored (pre-2022) stories from the subreddit r/WritingPrompts, conveniently gathered in this dataset. She found a distinct difference in the endings of the LLM-generated stories: both […]
Dorothy Bishop, a psychologist, wrote a useful list of what reviewers need to look out now that so many papers are bad science that looks good thanks to LLMs. Read her whole blog post, she explains it well, but here’s a brief version because I’m pretty sure we’ll be needing […]
I recently read a good article on the different kinds of truth a language model operates with by Luke Mann, Liam Magee and Vanicka Arora, Truth Machines: Synthesizing Veracity in AI Language Models, but despite its lovely typology of truths (consensus, correspondence, coherence and pragmatic) it doesn’t help me with […]
I have this hunch that sparkles and glow and shimmer are somehow a point in the latent spaces of LLMs that have more connections than you would expect. Perhaps their connotation to magic and to the unknown matches some of the mystique of genAI? Or perhaps these words are used […]
This LLM-generated paper demonstrates how LLMs fail to cite core scholarship on a topic but generate misaligned citations systematically.
This paper is a great example of why you probably shouldn’t use a systematic literature review for a theoretical and conceptual research question like “How does artificial intelligence affect the perception of authenticity and aura in art?” However, if you’re looking for an annotated list of 48 recent articles about […]
nick
Only almanacs?!? They should arrest people who are carrying around any kind of book!
HÂkon Styri
“They should arrest people who are carrying around any kind of book!”
That’s close, but reality beats fiction. One of my favourite stories of 2003 is this one:
http://www.gazette.com/popupNews.php?id=595347
This quote from the the interview with the immigration officer is somewhat mind-numbing:
ìHe said, ëI looked you up on Amazon.com and you like books about second languages,íî
Apparently they’ve recognized Amazon.com as a WMD source. I wonder how they classify people with blogs.
Anyway, the almanacs and maps story is hillarious. I travel a lot and I usually carry stuff like almanacs, maps, fact books about the places I’m visiting and I almost always carry a camera. (Until september 12, 2001, I always carried a box cutter in my camera bag. Good grief, I guess I just have too many bad habits.
Jason
I saw that in the paper on my way into work on the Metro yesterday.
I wondered if anyone thought it was suspicious that I lingered over the weather report.
Water Cooler Games
Flight Sim Scare
Following on Jill’s post about the prohibition of lavatory queues on US-bound flights, and our absurd fears about almanacs, is this Register article about a state trooper’s housecall after a mother bought her son a Flight Sim from a local…