Rasmus Birk
@rasmusbirk
Associate Professor in Psychology @ Aalborg University. I use qualitative methods to study mental health, focusing especially on the social, cultural and spatial contexts of experience.
Beyond incredible to see the *Director of Vote Leave* say that he made ‘several arguments’ for leaving the EU. Mate, you ran the whole campaign!
"when you opine on matters of theology [...] you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth" is certainly a thing to say, even if intellectual rigour is not really fashionable these days
I’m slowly coming to the realisation that perhaps we *do* need psychoanalysis to understand the appeal to LLMs in everyday life…
all else aside, there's a particular imperative here that's just begging for analysis - you *will* love AI, you *should* love AI etc.
This AI stuff has, if nothing else, thrown upon us a new age of techno-psycho-babble
AI in newsrooms will be great. Take, for example, this article, which claims that both Barcelona and Arsenal are out of the Champions League. Either the journalist is having the biggest brain fart of all time, or it’s AI making stuff up. sports.yahoo.com/article/uefa...