Inverse Laws of Robotics:
* Humans must not anthropomorphise AI systems.
* Humans must not blindly trust the output of AI systems.
* Humans must remain fully responsible and accountable for consequences arising from the use of AI systems.
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Mathieu Jacomy
@jacomyma@mas.to
mastodon 4.7.2Digital tools + social sciences + design at the Tantlab in Copenhagen. Co-creator of Gephi & Hyphe.
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Loved debating whether ecologists should fly across the world to the big conferences where the powerful meet?
You'll love: Can we use LLMs to critique LLMs at scale?
Apparently a Dane born in Copenhagen is a person who, once drunk, realizes they can speak Danish.
Any technology that promises you more independence is in fact just offering to trade a visible dependence for an invisible one.
(STS shower thought)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Yomguithereal/116375507606731189
xan is a command line tool that can be used to process CSV files directly from the shell.
Independent execution of computations underlying research articles.
https://codecheck.org.uk/
I just finished rendering the "grounded AI map", a giant map of AI and algorithms in science that we are going to print as a 100m² vinyl floor mat that one can walk on, and exhibit in different places (stay tuned).
Just showing a few pics because it's gorgeous.
Each dot is a paper. The color is the year (red 1980 to blue and purple 2020+).
Clusters are labelled + a code number allows getting more info.
"AI is an incredible force multiplier for implementation, but it’s a dangerous substitute for design."
Excellent, honest report on carrying out a software engineering project using agentic AI.
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Link from Hacker News. Discussion there FYI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307887
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I struggle to have my students articulate their findings without telling the story of their journey. That's because a reader does not want to give her attention to the "how we got there" until you've convinced her that "where we got" was worth it.
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But narrating the journey has a perverse effect on some of my students: it lets them believe that their analysis' legitimacy derives from the amount of effort they have engaged in their work.
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@ewout@mastodon.social Absolutely. To some extent, the level of detail provided (version of ChatGPT) suggests that it has some relevance; but if it explains features of the writing, doesn't it defeat the claim that the authors take full responsibility?
The entire statements sounds like an apophasis to me.
Note: I will link the Wikipedia page for Apophasis because I did not know the word in English (we call it "prétérition" in French) so no shame here. The concept is worth knowing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis
There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’
https://www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness/
I will be covering the Open Research Devroom at the #FOSDEM all day, just follow the devroom's account!
I'm in a conference about networks and as often, some speaker says something like "I did not use Gephi for this, sorry".
I realize that my de-facto joke in this context has become "Now you need to make a donation to Gephi to absolve your soul."
That's so great to have the donate system functional again.
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BTW here are preview screenshots of our work in progress of integrating a new icon set, including a number of custom-made ones, into #gephi .
🦶 Step on AI! Trample our giant visualization!
The Grounded AI Map is a 100m² floor mat representing 2M scientific papers involving AI and algorithms. The Danish Technical Museum will be exhibiting it until June 2, 2025, in dialogue with objects selected from its collections.
The museum is in Helsingør (think Hamlet), north of Copenhagen.
Check it out:
https://youtu.be/n4XSpCz3iJg
Grounding AI at the Danish Technical Museum (2025)
Hey les Parisiens, I will be in Paris throughout February.
I'm visiting the Institute for Advanced Study to work on AI-augmented mapping and notably within RAG systems for computational SSH, along with @AndersKMunk@mas.to .
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7420054429581881346/
Let's get in touch!
Tomorrow I will be at the Computational Humanities Conference in Aarhus to present a short paper as a poster, where we (Matilde Ficozzi, @AndersKMunk@mas.to & I) explain why some bridges in a network map can actually be clusters.
Sub-optimal Recall in Visual Cluster Retrieval: When Clusters Look Like Bridges
https://2024.computational-humanities-research.org/papers/paper5/
The Techno-Anthropology Lab, where I work, has made a video that is far too fun to stay buried in the sad shell of a website that the university has forced upon us, so I share it here. Enjoy!
TANTlab - Our questions and curiosities
🛠️ They make tools for the social sciences and humanities. Who are they? What do they want? Why don't they make better, different tools?
On October 12 from 16:00 to 18:00 in Copenhagen, MASSHINE hosts a panel to give a voice to the SSH tool makers. Book your agenda and come discuss with us! Just register in the link below.
https://www.en.ssh.aau.dk/masshine-talk-computational-tool-making-for-the-social-sciences-humanities-e85671
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But making an argument is too difficult for some of my students, and they fall back to narrating their struggle instead. It pushes back onto me the responsibility to delineate the argument. I will do it as a teacher, but not as a reader. It's the writer's job to make a point.
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The map's legend, AI-generated from a very generic prompt, of course:
🔵 Blue — Bebop / cool / hard-bop (Parker, Gillespie, Coltrane) · right
🟢 Green — Post-bop / fusion / contemporary (Miles Davis, Hancock, Marsalis) · center
🔴 Red — Free jazz / avant-garde / European improv (Ornette, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra) · upper-left
🟠 Orange — Swing-era popular / Dixieland (Goodman, Armstrong, Glenn Miller) · lower-center
🟣 Purple — Classic swing & vocal big-band (Ellington, Basie, Billie Holiday) · bottom
🩷 Pink — Jazz-adjacent pop / soul / vocalists (Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Norah Jones) · center
🟦 Cyan — Nordic / ECM scene (Garbarek, Rypdal) · the semi-detached island top-right Tiny national scenes (Japanese, Romanian, Central-European) appear as small grey satellites.
University logic
"Sacit" vs. "Saphor" data viz framework.
Sacit: simple, authoritative, complete, impervious to the viewer, and transparent.
Saphor: situated, authored, partial, historical, observer-dependent, and rhetorical.
I'm just offloading a discarded fragment I had drafted during my writing process. The second series of qualifiers is from Johanna Drucker.
Working too much with text embeddings.
Vibe coding is maieutic.