xiaochang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Communication @ Stanford. Histories of AI/ML, NLP, speech recognition, and related data practices; general tomfoolery.
👤 Joined on 22 October 2023
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@xiaochang.bsky.socialSeems relevant to that flood of journalists who in the last few weeks announced publicly that it was okay to return to X, that the platform had gotten better, and the worst aspects of it had been minimized. This is what you have endorsed.
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Show PostA point I will make next week is that I believe the salient fact of the Hugging Face incident is not any of the discourse about consciousness or agency, but that the internet and all adjacent infrastructure offer a common manipulable/executable substrate. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/2026/o...
Show PostDIVINATION ENGINES! Carefully rendered genealogy of data-intensive AI from the shifting epistemologies and practices of comp. linguistics, signal processing, speech recognition, telecommunications. This book explains how language became digital text, and meaning […] [Original post on aoir.social]
Show Postfolks coming to #4S2026, I'm organizing not one, not two, not three, but *four* panels on the social study of contraptions. come by my new home, the Wentworth room on the second floor of the venue this Thursday, to say hi
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