Put language tech in the hands of the people who actually speak it.
The universal language of space is... Star Trek? Mais oui.
A small piece of "Star Trek" history was revealed aboard the International Space Station 60 years (to the day) after the Starship Enterprise premiered.
Large language models are cultural technologies. What might that mean?
Four different perspectives
First Languages AI Reality | Mila
The FLAIR initiative aims to develop a method for the rapid creation of customized ASR models for Indigenous languages.
Controls as language
A couple of weeks ago, my friend Esteban said some stuff on Twitter that got me thinking (again) about the value of looking at a game’s control scheme as a sort of language. The whole series of tweets is worth a read, but the concluding tweet in p...
Humanism and artificial intelligence
If humanism was born with the alphabet in a literate environment and was reborn with the printing press, what becomes of it when digital technology becomes the dominant symbolic technology?
Appropriating Technology | Public Sphere Project — Liberating Voices Pattern Language
Dematerialization, Participatory Design, Techno-Criticism, Intermediate Technologies, Users' IT Quality Network, Wholesome Design for Wicked Problems, Labor Visions, Community Inquiry, Tactical Media
A Cult AI Computer’s Boom and Bust
Academic Lexicon & Feature expansion · Issue #119 · singi-labs/sifa-workspace
Summary Together with #ATScience, we see a huge opportunity for academics to use open AT protocol to collaborate, protect and show their work. Sifa could help our by providing the functionality tha...
Coordination Tech in Science: Letters, Journals, and Whatever Comes Next | shishyko!
To modernize our scientific infrastructure, we need new contextualization and coordination technologies that decouple trust from legacy branding — shifting from gatekeeping on write to algorithmic contextualization on read.
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
We Have Always Been Action TheoristsToward a Critical Theory of Language for the Era of “Large Language Models”
Scholars of literature and culture understandably place themselves among the world’s premiere experts on matters of language. But they also know that fields like linguistics and communication have their own ways of studying how people express themselves through speech and written media. A key difference concerns the theories and methodologies...
The Thoughts The Civilized Keep
The hype around a new AI language generator reveals the sterility of mainstream thinking on AI today — and indeed on how we think about thinking itself.
1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science
arxiv.orgI think of all of the AI / ML / CS tech out there, speech generation freaks me out the most.
Opensourcing TADA: Fast, Reliable Speech Generation Through Text-Acoustic Synchronization
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