Today, the 2nd lecture of #ISE2025 took place with an introduction into Natural Language Processing, which will be subject of our lecture for the next 4 weeks.

#AI #nlp #informationextraction #ocr #ner #linguistics #computationallinguistics #morphology #pos #ambiguity #language @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @tabea @enorouzi @sourisnumerique #AIart #generativeAI #machinetranslation #languagemodels #llm

WRITER FUEL: Is the idea of “aligning” AI with human values a fallacy?

https://www.limfic.com/2025/04/28/writer-fuel-is-the-idea-of-aligning-ai-with-human-values-a-fallacy/

What we can learn from Brian W. Aldiss's 1958 sci-fi tale "But Who Can Replace a Man?", which eerily foreshadows today’s generative AI.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/technology/2024/11/replace-man

Webinar: Thinking with Machines: How Academics Can Use Generative AI Thoughtfully and Ethically – Mark Carrigan

"The emergence of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools presents both opportunities and challenges for academia. While these technologies offer powerful capabilities to support scholarship, their thoughtless adoption could undermine the very foundations of academic work. This talk introduces a framework for incorporating generative AI into academic practice in ways that enhance rather than replace human thought. Drawing on extensive practical experience, it demonstrates how conversational agents can serve as intellectual interlocutors rather than mere productivity tools, while examining the broader implications of these developments for the future of universities."

@academicchatter @science

https://markcarrigan.net/2025/04/28/webinar-thinking-with-machines-how-academics-can-use-generative-ai-thoughtfully-and-ethically/

There's one more huge expense of using generative AI that most haven't considered:

Rule 11 sanctions
youtu.be/9KqHwa58oNs

WRITER FUEL: Looking at AI-generated art shows that machines may never truly understand the human mind, because there are states of mind that can never be automated.

https://www.limfic.com/2025/04/27/writer-fuel-why-ai-created-art-is-ultimately-empty/

#GenerativeAI tool marks a milestone in #biology
Trained on a dataset of 100,000 organisms from #bacteria to #humans – and a few extinct ones – #Evo2 can predict the form and function of #proteins in the #DNA of all domains of life and run experiments in a fraction of the time it would take a traditional lab.The system can quickly determine what #gene mutations contribute to certain #diseases and what mutations are mostly harmless.
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/02/generative-ai-tool-marks-a-milestone-in-biology-and-accelerates-the-future-of-life-sciences
#genetics

Albert Burneko over at Defector has referred to ChatGPT as a "jumped-up Speak and Spell" and I will be using that from now on.
The entire article, "Henry Blodget Invents, Hires, Sexually Harasses, Blogs About Nonexistent AI Subordinate" is an only-child Easter basket of snark, and exactly what I needed on this particular Friday.
#generativeAI #chatgpt #defectormedia #FridayPetty

Even #US Gov Says #AI Requires Massive Amounts of #Water
A new gov illuminates environmental impact of #generativeAI.
47-page analysis found cooling #datacenters -- which demand between 100-1000 megawatts of power--constitutes 40% of their #energy consumption, a figure expected to rise as global temperatures increase.
Water usage varies dramatically by location, with geography significantly affecting both water requirements and carbon #emissions.
https://www.404media.co/even-the-u-s-government-says-ai-requires-massive-amounts-of-water/
https://archive.ph/OepWn

lol I had to try the "made up phrase" + "meaning" google search trend myself

Readings shared April 23, 2025. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2025/04/23-readings_shared_04-23-25 #CommonLisp #Education #GenerativeAI #Haskell #IsabelleHOL #LeanProver #Math #Python

"To test this out, the Carnegie Mellon researchers instructed artificial intelligence models from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to complete tasks a real employee might carry out in fields such as finance, administration, and software engineering. In one, the AI had to navigate through several files to analyze a coffee shop chain's databases. In another, it was asked to collect feedback on a 36-year-old engineer and write a performance review. Some tasks challenged the models' visual capabilities: One required the models to watch video tours of prospective new office spaces and pick the one with the best health facilities.

The results weren't great: The top-performing model, Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, finished a little less than one-quarter of all tasks. The rest, including Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash and the one that powers ChatGPT, completed about 10% of the assignments. There wasn't a single category in which the AI agents accomplished the majority of the tasks, says Graham Neubig, a computer science professor at CMU and one of the study's authors. The findings, along with other emerging research about AI agents, complicate the idea that an AI agent workforce is just around the corner — there's a lot of work they simply aren't good at. But the research does offer a glimpse into the specific ways AI agents could revolutionize the workplace."

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/next-assignment-babysitting-ai-081502817.html

Today the kickoff meeting of our project course "Telling Data Stories with Semantic Technologies and Generative AI" in collaboration with Academy of Sciences & Literature, Mainz, took place, introducing the general topic and our dedicated course software & research data infrastructure. Stay tuned for news & updates ;-)

@lysander07 @tabea @MahsaVafaie @epoz @fiz_karlsruhe @KIT_Karlsruhe @nfdi4culture #NFDIrocks #researchdata #semweb #semanticweb #knowledgegraphs #AI #generativeAI #llms #SPARQL

"This German startup is Europe’s best hope for developing AI advancement outside Silicon Valley"

Last year, Germany had everything it needed to start creating its own ChatGPT or a German Le Chat (Mistral) .

However, the most promising German AI company, Aleph Alpha , which was supported by major German companies, decided to stop investing in an European LLM to compete with OpenAI: "It doesn’t justify the investment"

Instead, it chose to focus on business-to-business (B2B) and government markets - it also means it would generate revenue right away.

Full article:

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/09/07/aleph-alpha-germany-ai-startup-tech-silicon-valley

This interesting thread on AI art overwhelming and then ghost-towning a game art and modding community starts with a thread numbered one of two but it's one of those threads that kept going and is actually 1 of 9. It's an interesting example.

https://masto.hackers.town/@siege/114361598064623318

Bullshit universities: the future of automated education. ~ Robert Sparrow, Gene Flenady. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-025-02340-8 #GenerativeAI #Education

"We must stop giving AI human traits. My first interaction with GPT-3 rather seriously annoyed me. It pretended to be a person. It said it had feelings, ambitions, even consciousness.

That’s no longer the default behaviour, thankfully. But the style of interaction — the eerily natural flow of conversation — remains intact. And that, too, is convincing. Too convincing.

We need to de-anthropomorphise AI. Now. Strip it of its human mask. This should be easy. Companies could remove all reference to emotion, judgement or cognitive processing on the part of the AI. In particular, it should respond factually without ever saying “I”, or “I feel that”… or “I am curious”.

Will it happen? I doubt it. It reminds me of another warning we’ve ignored for over 20 years: “We need to cut CO₂ emissions.” Look where that got us. But we must warn big tech companies of the dangers associated with the humanisation of AIs. They are unlikely to play ball, but they should, especially if they are serious about developing more ethical AIs.

For now, this is what I do (because I too often get this eerie feeling that I am talking to a synthetic human when using ChatGPT or Claude): I instruct my AI not to address me by name. I ask it to call itself AI, to speak in the third person, and to avoid emotional or cognitive terms.

If I am using voice chat, I ask the AI to use a flat prosody and speak a bit like a robot. It is actually quite fun and keeps us both in our comfort zone."

https://theconversation.com/we-need-to-stop-pretending-ai-is-intelligent-heres-how-254090?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb

Con il rilascio di #Gemini 2.5 Flash, #Google  introduce un’innovazione importante: la possibilità di attivare o disattivare il ragionamento in base al contesto e alle esigenze.

I dettagli: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alessiopomaro_google-llm-gemini-activity-7320043115485003776-wa6F

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