@NatureMC Haha, I like this line of thinking.
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@ticho Iâm truly in complete agreement with you, though I expect the bulk of domain registrations are from delusional ideas and startups that will never see the light of day.
At this yearâs Hatch Conference in Berlin James and I will be taking to the stage to record an episode of UX Podcast in front of a live audience.
You could be one of the people in the audience.
We are joining a string of brilliant European design podcasts also doing live shows, and then there is of course all the keynote speakers sharing insights on topics such as Design Maturity, Career, UI & Craft, AR/XR and Ethics.
Check out the schedule, the lineup and workshop days sessions on the website. And yes, you get 10% off the ticket price using UXPODCAST at checkout â€ïž
đ https://per.ax/hatch
The conference day is on Friday, September 6.
The workshop days are on September 4-5.
If you see a domain name ending in .ai that means the island of Anguilla got some money, as it is the owner of this country domain.
âFor each domain registration, Anguillaâs government gets anywhere from $140 to thousands of dollars from website names sold at auctions, according government data.â
In 2023 just over 20% of the governmentâs total revenue came from these registrations.
â[âŠ] the government used the money to provide free health care for citizens 70 and older, and it has committed millions of dollars to finish building a school and a vocational training center. The government has also allocated funds to improve its airport; doubled its budget for sports activities, events and facilities; and increased the budget for citizens seeking medical treatment overseas.â
The island was hit hard by a hurricane in 2017 and tourism essentially disappeared during the covid pandemic. The .ai domain revenue has been a welcome injection into the economy.
Now you canât say I never talk about AI in a positive light đ
https://per.ax/angui
In June 2023 I wrote:
«Will consumers perhaps come to see the phrase "AI-Powered System" in the same light as "Diesel-Powered SUV".»
Well, not yet it would seem.
In The Elements of AI Ethics from June of last year I build on The Elements of Digital Ethics from 2021. Which itself was the output of reading about digital harms for many years.
Seeing all of the categories of harms just get worse year on year is disheartening.
What goal is worth all this? I tend to fall back on a sentiment I use in my talks and teaching:
When a privileged group benefits from a technology, the more inclined they will be to ignore the harms done unto others by the same technology. Because drawing attention to the harm would suggest they should give up their personal gain to help someone else.
This appears to be true for the short term. In the long term the beneficiaries of technology will happily also ignore harm done unto themselves, as long as they get the experience boost in the moment.
What hope is there?
In my June 11 session for Ambition Empower I will be talking about how to champion technologies of compassion, drawing on work related to nature connectedness by P. Wesley Schultz, Marianne E. Krasny, F. Stephan Mayer and Cynthia M Frantz.
Technologies of compassion work in unison with an acknowledgement of our connection not only to each other but also to nature. Technology tends to separate us from nature, making us value it less - and causing us to increasingly worsen our own living conditions, and the conditions of all other species, over time.
But we can choose to design technology that takes nature into account.. Technology that works with, not against, nature. I believe this is what all schools must start teaching. Now.
Expect me to write more about this over the next year.
https://per.ax/aie
#solarpunk
In June 2023 I wrote:
«Will consumers perhaps come to see the phrase "AI-Powered System" in the same light as "Diesel-Powered SUV".»
Well, not yet it would seem.
In The Elements of AI Ethics from June of last year I build on The Elements of Digital Ethics from 2021. Which itself was the output of reading about digital harms for many years.
Seeing all of the categories of harms just get worse year on year is disheartening.
What goal is worth all this? I tend to fall back on a sentiment I use in my talks and teaching:
When a privileged group benefits from a technology, the more inclined they will be to ignore the harms done unto others by the same technology. Because drawing attention to the harm would suggest they should give up their personal gain to help someone else.
This appears to be true for the short term. In the long term the beneficiaries of technology will happily also ignore harm done unto themselves, as long as they get the experience boost in the moment.
What hope is there?
In my June 11 session for Ambition Empower I will be talking about how to champion technologies of compassion, drawing on work related to nature connectedness by P. Wesley Schultz, Marianne E. Krasny, F. Stephan Mayer and Cynthia M Frantz.
Technologies of compassion work in unison with an acknowledgement of our connection not only to each other but also to nature. Technology tends to separate us from nature, making us value it less - and causing us to increasingly worsen our own living conditions, and the conditions of all other species, over time.
But we can choose to design technology that takes nature into account.. Technology that works with, not against, nature. I believe this is what all schools must start teaching. Now.
Expect me to write more about this over the next year.
#solarpunk
@hundenrajna1 @wolfman Ăn sĂ„ lĂ€nge Ă€r det bara nya Copilot+ PC som har det. SĂ„ det Ă€r ingen ko pĂ„ isen, Ă€nnu.
Alien historians:
For fifty years computers were used for their purpose: to compute exact, predictable and explainable responses to exact, interpretable queries and inputs.
Then, in what human timekeeping referred to as the early 21st century, the most exploitative classes of the human race decided that the best use of computers was to compute inexact - yet semantically believable - responses to inexact human phrasing. Each inexact response was different for multiple identical queries, and easily manipulated through more inexact phrasing.
And they chose to call those responses intelligence. We can only presume the decades prior, trusting computers for exact calculations, forced them into a delusional state of mind. Probabilistic word salad was treated as divine instruction. As further evidence of this delusion, we can refer to the sequence of events that followed.
To produce vast amounts of âintelligenceâ required extreme amounts of energy, causing consumption to skyrocket. This was during a time when it would appear that the human race were well aware that they actually needed to do the opposite: reduce energy consumption to minimise the effects of their climate crisis and save themselves.
Needless to say, much of human civilisation collapsed into a smoking pile of confusion. After their demise, Earth was again able to thrive, after we removed the heaps of harmful waste orbitting around it.
1. Ă
r 2020 sÀtter Microsoft som mÄl att nÄ negativa utslÀpp Är 2030.
2. De gasar pÄ och kör i helt motsatt riktning frÄn mÄlet och ökar i stÀllet sina utslÀpp med mer Àn 30%.
3. Ă
r 2024 handlar allt om att bygga ut och bygga nya datacenter.
4. De accelerar alltsÄ nu Ànnu snabbare bort frÄn mÄlet de satte.
5. Idag frĂ„gar en journalist âĂr det möjligt att nĂ„ mĂ„let nĂ€r ni expanderar sĂ„ kraftigt inom datacenter?â
6. Och fĂ„r till svar âI nulĂ€get Ă€r det svĂ„rare Ă€n nĂ€r vi satte det 2020. Men det Ă€r viktigare Ă€n nĂ„gonsin att nĂ„ det, och det Ă€r vi fast beslutna att göra.â
7. Ingen följdfrÄga pÄ det.
8. RidÄ.
Just found the Solarpunk Futures storytelling game and now all I want to do is run a solarpunk workshop. đ
https://thefuture.wtf
The free print-and-play version of the cards: https://per.ax/solarpunkcards
Jag vet att jag en backlog i mejlkorgen pĂ„ ett par-tre veckor nu. Svar kommer nĂ€r det kommer. Jag rĂ€knar med att vara ikapp till midsommar. Om du behöver nĂ„ mig, ring. đ
Meddelas endast pÄ detta sÀtt.
Heja Sverige. VĂ„r statsminister gĂ„r ut och gör gemensam sak med ett amerikanskt storföretag, och hyllar dem för att de gör en rekordinvestering i sina egna datacenter, bokar upp resurser pĂ„ vĂ„rt elnĂ€t, gör Ă„verkan pĂ„ natur och miljö â och ger dem sannolikt rabatt pĂ„ elpriset för besvĂ€ret. Investeringen kan summa summarum bli en kostnad för civilsamhĂ€llet.
Allt för nĂ„got som kallas för AI, och som ingen har definierat vad det Ă€r för nĂ„got. Ett marknadsföringsbegrepp som kan betyda allt och inget. Just det, vi fĂ„r nĂ„gra timmar i deras webbutbildning â troligen utan lĂ€rare â om deras egen proprietĂ€ra âAIâ, en webbutbildning som sannolikt redan ligger fĂ€rdigproducerad. Tack för det Microsoft.
Söker journalister som kan problematisera dettaâŠ
Det hÀr var mitt första utbrott. Ska fördjupa mig i respektive Àmne pÄ bloggen sedan.
Just det⊠det rÄkar vara ett storföretag som kritiserats starkt pÄ senaste tiden för sina bristande sÀkerhetsrutiner⊠bland annat av Trafikverket, och slÀpper en dator med en funktion (Recall) som Àr som att bjuda cyberkriminella pÄ buffé.
@LeoR1010 Exakt sĂ„. Jag kokar hĂ€râŠ
@ton Agree completely!
When you have a qr code on a presentation slide you are welcoming people to take out their phones and get distracted by any notifications that happen to have appeared on screen, or just by the habit of tapping a specific app to check messages.
I actually miss business cards. But yeah, I still have a business card variant (just a url) that I sometimes hand out.
So youâre reading all these stories about machine learning being used to train models for predicting cancer. You may even read about a model with a 90% accuracy rate.
What if I told you that a model with an accuracy rate of 73% could be a better performer (higher Precision and Recall) than one with 90% accuracy.
You can not draw conclusions on headlines about 90% accuracy without understanding the accuracy paradox, and knowing that we can not rely on accuracy as the only metric.
Iâll let Tejumade Afonja explain, because intuition isnât always your friend.
âAccuracy Paradox for Predictive Analytics states that Predictive Models with a given level of Accuracy may have greater Predictive Power than Models with higher Accuracy.â
I love this interview so much. Haben was one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter before I left that platform. Very cool to see her being in Sweden and interviewing Aron.
If you don't know Haben Girma, she is the first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, and is an advocate for disability as an opportunity for innovation. She helps organisations see possibility where so many tend to see obstacles.
Here is an important message from her website on https://habengirma.com/faq/ :
"What advice do you have for journalists writing about disabled people?"
"Challenge yourself to create a disability story without using the word inspiration. The overuse of the word, especially for the most trivial things, has dulled its meaning. People sometimes even use the word as a disguise for pity. For example, âYou inspire me to stop complaining about my problems because I should feel grateful I donât have yours.â Messages that perpetuate us versus them hierarchies contribute to marginalization. Engage audiences by moving beyond the inspiration clichĂ©."
@emilymbender Wow, this is a great report with so many useful references. Thank you for sharing!
Based on Slack* practices of using your data to train their "AI" (probabilistic machine), I'd consider instead using an open source (truly) tool like Discourse for your collaborative needs. You can download it and install it on your own server, or opt for Discourse hosting at a reasonable fee.
It's funny because listed as one of the users is OpenAI. I suppose OpenAI themselves value privacy and not having their content scraped. đ
*Slack is owned by Salesforce