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Librarian of Things

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  • Boolean is Dead AND I feel fine

    Leonard Bernstein!

    Mita Williams

    February 29, 2024
    notes
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  • You don’t hate AI; You hate… : a collection

    §1 Management Consulting Firms §2 The Apparatus §3 Automation §4 Surveillance Capitalism §5 Thatcherism §6 Technofeudalism §7 Exploiting Labour §8 Tech Bubbles §9 Corporations

    Mita Williams

    January 30, 2024
    collection
    llm
  • Set seed or reproducibility: a collection

    Can LLMs that are designed to generate novelty also produce reproducible results? I don’t answer that question.

    Mita Williams

    January 25, 2024
    collection
    llm
  • I will dropkick you if you refer to an LLM as a Librarian

    I am on Team LLMs are Cultural Artifacts. I am not on Team “AI Rights”.

    Mita Williams

    January 18, 2024
    notes
    llm
  • The flood of machine-generated news and misinformation demands witness

    How can we fact-check potentially machine-generated misinformation when our investment in journalism is being decimated?

    Mita Williams

    January 5, 2024
    notes
    llm
  • When the zone is being flooded, libraries need to make the high ground

    Libraries can and should lend our authority to help others establish claims based on credible sources of information on the internet.

    Mita Williams

    January 1, 2024
    notes
    llm
  • Words of 2023

    Inspired by Matt Webb, I have been collecting words and phrases that are interesting to me since March of 2021.

    Mita Williams

    December 21, 2023
    collection
  • Shall We Play A Game? How games can help us think about machine learning

    What are generative AI LLM gpt-chat-bot machine learning systems… for? And how can game theory help us answer that question?

    Mita Williams

    December 12, 2023
    notes
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  • Plagiarism and Us

    I think you should watch Harris Brewis’ video essay, Plagiarism and You(Tube).

    Mita Williams

    December 6, 2023
    citations, notes
  • I am fed up with hiding myself — an actual human being — behind the conventional anonymity of a large language model

    I think you should read the transcript of Barbara Fister’s talk, “information literacy, writing instruction, and the problem of stochastic parrots”. And then I want to you to come out of hiding.

    Mita Williams

    November 30, 2023
    citations, notes
    llm
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