Dafydd Gibbon

@rogerkmoore RIP Yorick, larger than life, larger than death. He will be remembered for many achievements.

Very sad news - I met Yorick in the 1970s at Essex University - one of the most charismatic people I’ve ever worked with - RIP Yorick

@davidschlangen LOL :) Still needs to learn how to make a charismatic speech or convincingly beg for 5 dollars to get a bus home, and other dimensions of spoken language. Maybe it will come. We will see.

AI is solved. Again.

@Jan_Rybicki Thomas B. and his Shakspeare forever! But: here we have adults trying to look good to kids; refusal to prepare kids to confront noxious adults; denial of historical fact; commercial counterfeiting of Dahl. And talent-free!

Bowdler lives! BBC News - Roald Dahl: Rishi Sunak joins criticism of changes to author's books bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

@rogerkmoore @BBC Lol!!!

Hmmm, @BBC news just described ChatGPT as “scarily accurate” - script written by ChatGPT perchance?

#ChatGPT is a gossip machine. Why? #Gossip is "casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details that are not confirmed as being true." Can be entertaining, of course.

@rogerkmoore Couldn't agree more. Waiting for the talking-listening gesturing smelling tasting avatar for GPT-3.

Having been in the speech & language field for (gulp) ~40 years, I’m still amazed that there’s so much focus on modelling text. Text is a technology - a monomodal shadow of language. LLMs are actually LTMs, and thus lack critical constraints in time, space and physical causality.

@aljwhite Hilarious!

@rogerkmoore Yes, "motherese", for instance, is a well-known example of parent accommodation to offspring.

… and parents/carers imitate their children, creating a closed-loop for learning

@rogerkmoore Asimov would turn in his grave.

Chess robot breaks seven-year-old boy's finger during Moscow Open bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

@skdh Not the worst thing, according to the history books. Not by far.

I've said it before but I'll say it again: phasing out nuclear power was the dumbest thing the Germans have ever done. dw.com/en/germanys-sc…

@rogerkmoore A huge loss, indeed, and a good friend, too.

A huge loss to the international speech research community, and a good friend - RIP Anne

geometry they know tracing polygon orbits with silken cobwebs #haiku

@rogerkmoore Tell me more about the guitar backing.

I made this a couple of years ago, but it seems appropriate to share it today: youtu.be/QOus8dgoh1g

@rogerkmoore Beautiful, Roger. I have shared the link with Ukrainian friends.

trees still skeletons dark grey skies sometimes turn blue slow orange sunset #haiku

@Jan_Rybicki LOL, just enjoy all the praise!

Every time I go on twitter I hear "narcissist, narcissist, narcissist" in my head. Devil? Dementia? Covid? Conscience?

@JWGrieve @Jan_Rybicki @MaciejEder @rstudio I agree. It's also a huge contribution to corpus linguistics.

Big thanks to @MaciejEder @Jan_Rybicki et al for the stylo #RStats package. I teach it to undergrads with no programming/stats background in my authorship analysis class in less than an hour, incl installing R and @rstudio! One just solved en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_F… as I spoke!

Here's to the new German ROBOT COALITION! (Referred to with the nickname "Ampelkoalition", "traffic light coalition" because of the colours of the parties concerned). Guess what the South African word for "traffic light" is 😉

skylarks sing longings eagles fly far on strong winds once a dream came true #haiku

@davidschlangen Maybe people are too timid to try "Mem"...

Is there a German word for being slightly annoyed by the “is there a German word for” meme? Maybe “what’s-so-hard-to-understand-about-compositional-processes-understanding-failure-annoyedness”.