I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.

Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.

And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

imagine believing that the cosine product between two vectors could be foundational to intelligence 🙄

#LLMs #AI

New week, new article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🚀
We’re excited to announce @andrewpiper: “Towards a Perspectival Moral History of the Novel Using #LLMs”. Using 9,000+ Wikipedia plot summaries, he asks: What life lessons do stories quietly teach us at scale?
#CCLS25 #CLS #LiteraryComputing
https://jcls.io/issue/118/info/

New week, new article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🚀
We’re excited to announce @andrewpiper: “Towards a Perspectival Moral History of the Novel Using #LLMs”. Using 9,000+ Wikipedia plot summaries, he asks: What life lessons do stories quietly teach us at scale?
#CCLS25 #CLS #LiteraryComputing
https://jcls.io/issue/118/info/

Can we trust general-purpose LLMs for rigorous academic work? According to @SarahOberbichler from the #DHlab_IEG, research integrity demands specialized AI models, not general-purpose LLMs when using AI as an analysis tool.

Join her upcoming talk "Argument Mining in News Media: Tailoring Models and Methods for Responsible Application" on Nov 26th at CESR (University of Tours) or online
➡️ https://prima.hypotheses.org/3181

#DigitalHumanities #NLP #ArgumentMining #ResearchIntegrity #AI #LLMs #Histodons #DH

Can we trust general-purpose LLMs for rigorous academic work? According to @SarahOberbichler from the #DHlab_IEG, research integrity demands specialized AI models, not general-purpose LLMs when using AI as an analysis tool.

Join her upcoming talk "Argument Mining in News Media: Tailoring Models and Methods for Responsible Application" on Nov 26th at CESR (University of Tours) or online
➡️ https://prima.hypotheses.org/3181

#DigitalHumanities #NLP #ArgumentMining #ResearchIntegrity #AI #LLMs #Histodons #DH

I think #llms allow me to do technologically what #photography allows me to do artistically: finish things while avoiding the struggle with #adhd / executive function / distraction and wanting to build things that are too ambitious / time consuming / exhausting to actually make. It also allows me to have a pressure valve for ideas as they come up during the day and actually get the value out of them I want them to have.

I hadn’t finished a personal electronics project in over 15 years, yet yesterday I could build a really nice film development timer while at the same time exploring generating enclosures with a few words , while at the same time also focusing on actual printing and writing in my sketchbook and watching some documentaries and just overall chilling.

This is mind blowing, and I think the current iteration of Manus.im and a few prompting techniques i developed are key to this.

I kind of consider this to be llm supported “being in the real world” and creativity. I would otherwise spent my Saturday knee deep in micro python documentation which I honestly couldn’t care less about instead of thinking about ideas and cleaning my lab…

I have a video of the film developer but mastodon sucks so…

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0e2vmOQMQ-ZO4HxSw7m9M-URw

All mentions of "AI" should be changed into "Brain Rot Inducer"…

"Do you want the Brain Rot Inducer to summarize this text for you?"

"The Brain Rot Inducer can auto-answer this e-mail for you!"

"Let the Brain Rot Inducer write this social media post for you!"

"Easily generate an image with the Brain Rot Inducer, and call it your own creation!"

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #tech #technology #BigTech #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #OpenAI #ChatGPT

All mentions of "AI" should be changed into "Brain Rot Inducer"…

"Do you want the Brain Rot Inducer to summarize this text for you?"

"The Brain Rot Inducer can auto-answer this e-mail for you!"

"Let the Brain Rot Inducer write this social media post for you!"

"Easily generate an image with the Brain Rot Inducer, and call it your own creation!"

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #tech #technology #BigTech #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #OpenAI #ChatGPT

And I stand firmly by my stance that #llms are a powerful #disability support for
#neurodivergent people. I can plan significant endeavors without being afraid that my time blindness will fuck things up (either I arrive 2 hours early or I mess it up bad), I can jumpstart important executive tasks (taxes, etc…), I can offload my overactive brain’s ideas, I can remove distractions from websites by generating the right tampermonkey scripts, avoid falling into deep rabbit holes just because I want to know something fast or research a topic.

All of these make a significant difference in my life and allow me to be more present in the real world.

Here’s me creating a small system to quickly block in components in blender, at breakfast while mostly spending my time reading a photobook: https://manus.im/share/fEkThyZv8KVFL8P7EJ2CHD?replay=1

It also allows me to focus on the strategic part of building software and the fundamentals of the technologies I use, not their surface api. Each project comes with a detailed guide to help me understand exactly that, basically the opposite of brainrot (because damn can programming APIs and quirks rot your brain too).

Similarly, making a drawing even is about 1h of work, and I rarely ever managed to finish one. Making music basically eats all day. I love both and put in the hours, but clicking the shutter and then doing the rote chores of developing and scanning for some reason gives me actual artistic fulfillment (music does too, but damn is it time consuming).

I don’t know what it is about the immediacy (yet weeks if not months long delay between making the photo and then seeing it printed) of transforming emotion/seeing (because I basically make a photo when something catches my eye/brain in an emotional way) into image works so well and is different from drawing, which to me feels mostly technical.

#llms also push software building into a more emotional/intuitive/artistic realm which I only saw glimpses of before, before they got overshadowed by the intellectual effort and grind software development used to be.

#art #llms #photography

I think #llms allow me to do technologically what #photography allows me to do artistically: finish things while avoiding the struggle with #adhd / executive function / distraction and wanting to build things that are too ambitious / time consuming / exhausting to actually make. It also allows me to have a pressure valve for ideas as they come up during the day and actually get the value out of them I want them to have.

I hadn’t finished a personal electronics project in over 15 years, yet yesterday I could build a really nice film development timer while at the same time exploring generating enclosures with a few words , while at the same time also focusing on actual printing and writing in my sketchbook and watching some documentaries and just overall chilling.

This is mind blowing, and I think the current iteration of Manus.im and a few prompting techniques i developed are key to this.

I kind of consider this to be llm supported “being in the real world” and creativity. I would otherwise spent my Saturday knee deep in micro python documentation which I honestly couldn’t care less about instead of thinking about ideas and cleaning my lab…

I have a video of the film developer but mastodon sucks so…

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0e2vmOQMQ-ZO4HxSw7m9M-URw