also some guy from uni admin is giving some talk about AI usage, and he queried a simple question in a local model that chugged (CPU usage at 50%, RAM maxxed out) to run on his 2020 laptop

am i supposed to believe this is the future, when a query online or looking up the answer online would have required so much less?

"but how can have sovereign control of the tools that we use to rent thinking to?" says the man in a suit

"we gave money to one company that people rent thinking to but they also use others in their life and it leaks data about our work" says the man in a suit

honestly that way of thinking about the big AI tools ("thought landlords") really crystalizes the ethical problem of delegating to AI companies that i couldn't articulate too well before

like, yeah, there's the catastrophic environmental impact (that you could extent to almost all modern IT), the horrible social aspect of generating torrents of what amounts to polyester but for thoughts, and the deskilling and devaluation of workers (creative or not). it's also not entirely the problem of delegating to a tool (we've been doing that with memory for as long as written history has existed)

companies have literally invented the concept of leasing out the ability to wonder things

> conference from a health professional

> doesn't mask

> jokingly mentions the 2 of us who are masking in the lecture hall

ok if the way this person (who teaches at med schools and seems to have a fairly positional role in various places) is anything representation of the future of AI usage in healthcare, we are so utterly fucked

okay now time for the funny

OH MY GOD FIRST SLIDE AND I SEE THE FUCKING PUZZLE PIECES LETSGOOO

immediately we have a definition of autism as loss communication and folding inwards

we are going to fucking ball chat

for those at home following with the bingo card, you can tick the "high-functioning / intermediate / low-functioning hierarchy" card

chat she is using the classification as a segregation tool in her classes i am wheezing

chat i am not even diagnosed and i feeling utterly insulted what the fuck

i've crossed the point where it stops being funny and i just fucking hate this

tag yourself chat are you high functioning or low functioning (because it will determine how long you get on the computer)

also she has a slide where she talks about "regression of low-functioning autistic students after vacations" and like, every kid at my school when i was a kid also forgot a pretty substantial chunk of school stuff during the two weeks of vacation that's called "taking a break"

"autistic children are very attached to the computer"

hello, professional autist here. Computers are good because when i tell them to do something, in general, they do it, with very little ambiguity. Hope that helps.

ABA METHOD LETS GOOOO

also an embarrassingly long time spent talking about ankle bracelets on autistic children because "some of them run away sometimes"

now some stuff about geopolitics and Europe and our dependency on US software

cool, guy, but we dont have similar solutions to that i think

you post prospective strategy scenarios where the US extorts European countries on LinkedIn

i post puppygirl piss kink fanfics on AO3

we are not the same

One of the presentations starts with a slide showing the coastal view of the Free Zone where the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology is built in Saudi Arabia

i don't think people around me loved the comment i made out loud of "wow imagine how many slaves died building this shit"

holy fuck the guy presented a big diagram of "trending security topics"

MADE BY CHATGPT

while explaining it he had to stop in his explanations, multiple times, to say "this isn't correct but hey this is ChatGPT give it some slack"