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Michael Schmid

@ADaddyBlog

Dallas - Fort Worth husband & dad. University director with a passion for AI and student success. Family and international travel proponent.

Half way to Halloween—Happy Wednesday! [Image courtesy of Grok, though Sora 2 or Gemini Nano Banana could have done as well?]


Iced coffee for a 90°F October day in Dallas 🎃

ADaddyBlog's tweet image. Iced coffee for a 90°F October day in Dallas 🎃

Good morning! Too soon for Halloween decorations?

ADaddyBlog's tweet image. Good morning! Too soon for Halloween decorations?

Erroneously ruining one student’s academic trajectory is one student too many. Clearly, we need to improve the way we assess our students learning outcomes.

It is morally wrong to use AI detectors when they produce false positives that smear students in ways that hurt them and where they can never prove their innocence. Do not use them. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

emollick's tweet image. It is morally wrong to use AI detectors when they produce false positives that smear students in ways that hurt them and where they can never prove their innocence.

Do not use them. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
emollick's tweet image. It is morally wrong to use AI detectors when they produce false positives that smear students in ways that hurt them and where they can never prove their innocence.

Do not use them. bloomberg.com/news/features/…


Is this a goose, a swan or the Loch Ness monster?

ADaddyBlog's tweet image. Is this a goose, a swan or the Loch Ness monster?

Those kids are real. My AI son goes to elementary school with them.

ADaddyBlog's tweet image. Those kids are real. My AI son goes to elementary school with them.

I made all of these with AI. The prompts were simple: "two sixth grade students in a class proudly showing off a hand-painted picture of a cat" etc. Maybe you can tell they are AI by looking at tiny details. Maybe. But I suspect that most people can't. That ship has sailed.

emollick's tweet image. I made all of these with AI. The prompts were simple: "two sixth grade students in a class proudly showing off a hand-painted picture of a cat" etc.

Maybe you can tell they are AI by looking at tiny details. Maybe.

But I suspect that most people can't. That ship has sailed.
emollick's tweet image. I made all of these with AI. The prompts were simple: "two sixth grade students in a class proudly showing off a hand-painted picture of a cat" etc.

Maybe you can tell they are AI by looking at tiny details. Maybe.

But I suspect that most people can't. That ship has sailed.
emollick's tweet image. I made all of these with AI. The prompts were simple: "two sixth grade students in a class proudly showing off a hand-painted picture of a cat" etc.

Maybe you can tell they are AI by looking at tiny details. Maybe.

But I suspect that most people can't. That ship has sailed.
emollick's tweet image. I made all of these with AI. The prompts were simple: "two sixth grade students in a class proudly showing off a hand-painted picture of a cat" etc.

Maybe you can tell they are AI by looking at tiny details. Maybe.

But I suspect that most people can't. That ship has sailed.


Definitely a cool hike in the mountains 🏔️

Beach day or hike through the mountains—which are you choosing? 👇



Not loving the Dallas Fort Worth weather trajectory this week!

ADaddyBlog's tweet image. Not loving the Dallas Fort Worth weather trajectory this week!

Michael Schmid reposted

🤞 we get plenty of breaks in the clouds during eclipse time! Go to eclipse.uta.edu to learn more about where to watch the eclipse on UTA's campus, eclipse viewing times, and information about safety and parking.

UTArlington's tweet image. 🤞 we get plenty of breaks in the clouds during eclipse time! 

Go to eclipse.uta.edu to learn more about where to watch the eclipse on UTA's campus, eclipse viewing times, and information about safety and parking.

Exactly when and where is today's solar eclipse? This awesome interactive map by @XavierJubier will tell you down to the second: xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/… #Eclipse2024 #SolarEclipse2024 #Rapture #April8 #solareclipse

ADaddyBlog's tweet image. Exactly when and where is today's solar eclipse? This awesome interactive map by @XavierJubier will tell you down to the second: xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/… #Eclipse2024 #SolarEclipse2024 #Rapture  #April8 #solareclipse

Per the recent interview by Ezra Klein, @emollick says it's helpful to understand this moment in living with AI as "one of co-creation, in which we all should be trying to make sense of what this technology is going to mean for us." His new book might help! Go get it now:

Co-Intelligence, my book on AI, is out today! Here is an interview with Ezra Klein about it: nytimes.com/2024/04/02/opi… And as some people didn’t get a chance to pre-order, anyone who buys the book *by Friday* can still get the companion GPTs by going here: moreusefulthings.com/book

emollick's tweet image. Co-Intelligence, my book on AI, is out today!

Here is an interview with Ezra Klein about it: nytimes.com/2024/04/02/opi…

And as some people didn’t get a chance to pre-order, anyone who buys the book *by Friday* can still get the companion GPTs by going here: moreusefulthings.com/book


Yikes! A Delta blues song about a sad A.I., entirely generated by Suno.ai from a text prompt. Steam from Rolling Stone on SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/pD89q1R1mVob28…


Remember when you joined X? Me neither. Apparently #MyTwitterAnniversary was 14 years ago, though.

ADaddyBlog's tweet image. Remember when you joined X? Me neither. Apparently #MyTwitterAnniversary was 14 years ago, though.

Guess leaving it to users to adjust temp, p & k variables won't be enough, but some end-user friendly tuning options (with guardrails) based on the desired use case may make sense? XAI is going to an interesting challenge as we try to expose the proverbial ghost in the machine.

ADaddyBlog's tweet image. Guess leaving it to users to adjust temp, p & k variables won't be enough, but some end-user friendly tuning options (with guardrails) based on the desired use case may make sense? XAI is going to an interesting challenge as we try to expose the proverbial ghost in the machine.

Paper on how to think about how LLMs explain their answers as plausible (do they make sense) & faithful (do they accurately represent how the LLM "thought"). For some cases, like the LLM explaining how to calculate 5!, you want plausible but not faithful. arxiv.org/pdf/2402.04614…

emollick's tweet image. Paper  on how to think about how LLMs explain their answers as plausible (do they make sense) & faithful (do they accurately represent how the LLM "thought"). For some cases, like the LLM explaining how to calculate 5!, you want plausible but not faithful. arxiv.org/pdf/2402.04614…
emollick's tweet image. Paper  on how to think about how LLMs explain their answers as plausible (do they make sense) & faithful (do they accurately represent how the LLM "thought"). For some cases, like the LLM explaining how to calculate 5!, you want plausible but not faithful. arxiv.org/pdf/2402.04614…


Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. Fear not, I'm still here, silently lurking and learning from your tweets… largely in the AI space. So, if my next innovation seems eerily prescient, know it was spawned by the shadows of your timelines… or written by GPT-5?

ADaddyBlog's tweet image. Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. Fear not, I'm still here, silently lurking and learning from your tweets… largely in the AI space. So, if my next innovation seems eerily prescient, know it was spawned by the shadows of your timelines… or written by GPT-5?

Daddy just got to carve the roast beast! 😋

ADaddyBlog's tweet image. Daddy just got to carve the roast beast! 😋

Michael Schmid reposted

25 Best Mother-daughter Trips Around the World. Click the image for more info. travelandleisure.com/best-mother-da…


DALL·E 3 adding some happy little trees 🌲🌄 #DALLE3ART #ChatGPT #BobRoss #OpenAI #GPT4 #DALLE3

ADaddyBlog's tweet image. DALL·E 3 adding some happy little trees 🌲🌄

#DALLE3ART #ChatGPT #BobRoss #OpenAI #GPT4 #DALLE3

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