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Way back in 2020 I published a piece referring to GPT-3 as a 'statistical parrot'. A few months later, that 'stochastic parrots' paper came out, and now that's how everyone talks about it. I hope to one day live on as a footnote in some grad student's AI history dissertation.

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Yesterday's #Robophilosophy2024 Workshop 10: Robot Rights - From Theory to Practice was a blast! We absolutely nailed it and had a great time. @David_Gunkel @autumnedwards @KamilMamak

Best part of the #robotrights workshop at @Robophilosophy_ is that we not only had brilliant contributions from @_aybig_ @autumnedwards @KamilMamak and Kęstutis Mosakas but also really inspired questions and comments from @eripsa @chrischesher @AnnaStrasser1 et al.

@_aybig_ @David_Gunkel I have a short discussion on Arendt and plurality in my AIdeal paper that might interest you. sciopen.com/article/10.239…

@David_Gunkel I stumbled upon a more interesting paper. However, I haven't found any work that delves into the concept of personhood from Arendt's perspective. Maybe there's still something new under the sun. :)

I thought I was the only one who associated AI with Arendt, believing I had come across something new. However, as they say, there's nothing new under the sun.

Here are the slides for my talk: #slide=id.g2f324cf1695_0_10" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/presentation/d…

I'll be in Denmark next week for #Robophilosoph2024 to present my paper "Can a robot hand grasp?" drive.google.com/file/d/1OH5clh…

I'm interested to see what ideas are floating around the workshop, but my intuition is that if we're still in the mode of proposing ontologies and conceptions of rights, we have a long way to go before rubber meets the road.

If we aren't talking about strategic coalitions with other rights activists and integrating ourselves with broader political networks and causes, then we aren't really talking about "practice" at all.

I'm looking forward to this workshop at #robophilosophy2024 ! The talks look great, but they also look rather theoretical. I'm hoping to talk more explicitly in Q&A about what "robot rights" looks like from the perspective of rights activists on the ground today.

There has been a lot of speculation and moralizing about #AI companions but little empirical data about the actual impact on users. Fortunately @amperjay has begun doing that work. New essay in "Journal of Social and Personal Relationships" @SageJournals doi.org/10.1177/026540…

New paper where @bayesianboy, @andrewthesmart, and I outline how machine learning is laundering long discredited harmful pseudoscience and offer resources for research best practices to developers/practitioners cell.com/patterns/fullt…