A class photo. Maybe around 150 to 200 robed graduands and academics are seated and standing in s large group in front of 3 stone archways.
It was great to catch up with MSc and LLM students graduating yesterday @uoelawschool.bsky.social. As a bonus they reminded me, ahead of the final #LAWS11292 classes before winter break, that the opening tracks before the seminar should come Shatner Clause.
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Very timely too. Next week on #LAWS11292 Global Crime and Insecurity we will be looking at #terrorism.
In a few weeks, the Global Crime and Insecurity class will look at the problem of femicide through cases in Italy, Mexico, and Türkiye.
The issue is at the forefront in Türkiye again with protests taking place after a brutal double killing.
#LAWS11292 #Criminology #Türkiye #GBV #VAWG
Happened to be talking about this as an example of harm rooted in globalised markets in Global Crime and Insecurity just the other day.
#LAWS11292 #Criminology #Zemiology
Merrily adding elements of @frasoliman.bsky.social's Social Harm at the Border to my slides for a session on Zemilogy next week.
The session began back in the mists of time with Lynne Copson, then evolved with Francesca's support.
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
#Criminology #LAWS11292
Stone buildings surrounding three sides of a quadrangle. Steps lead down to a central area, paved around a lawn. The sky is blue with streaky white clouds. One half of the quad is in shade. People sit on benches and on the lawn on the sunny side. To the rear, a large hanging installation from artist El Anatsui can be made out as an abstract in gold and white.
Title and abstract from original paper, ChatGPT is bullshit by Michael Twonses Hicks, James Humphries, Joe Slater: Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs. We distinguish two ways in which the models can be said to be bullshitters, and argue that they clearly meet at least one of these definitions. We further argue that describing AI misrepresentations as bullshit is both a more useful and more accurate way of predicting and discussing the behaviour of these systems.
The sun shone on old college as I met around 50 MSc and LLM students ready to take the course Global Crime and Insecurity. I'm excited to work with them in the coming weeks.
I'm also glad that they were ready to complete the sentence, Chat GPT is... Bullshit.
#LAWS11292 #Criminology
