Katharine Beals @katharinebeals@learningdisability.social

Excited to announce an upcoming virtual conference at Drexel University on the use of facilitated communication (FC/RPM/S2C) in individuals with autism! Here's the registration link plus flyer: https://drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dm6fsLLp5OyybPw

@BronwynHemsley @CarolineBowen @theconversationau @Lifelongliteracy wow--at least they're giving it credit.

@BronwynHemsley @CarolineBowen @theconversationau Yes--my prediction is that it will make FC harder to predict, because it will enhance the word prediction that already helps guide some FCers on their devices. This, of course, could also help with legitimate assistive devices.

@CarolineBowen @BronwynHemsley @theconversationau My take is that AI is much better at generating text than at processing it--b/c different "skills" are involved. AI text generation can rely on statistics & pattern recognition. Text processing (summarizing, simplifying, copy-editing-- all of which are actually useful!), requires skills more akin to comprehension (word & sentence level semantics, sensory experience), & AI seems nowhere near able to scale what some call the "barrier of meaning."

@GraemeSacks @CarolineBowen @BronwynHemsley @slp_slt @slpfedi @autisticadvocacy

Drexel University is hosting a free conference in a few weeks that will include a discussion of S2C. There is a remote option for attendance. More info here:
https://drexel.edu/soe/resources/events/upcoming-events/detail/?eid=37163&iid=99551

@rkd993 @speechwoman

@speechwoman

Banning tweets is one thing; erasing people is another, especially if there aren't enough human beings for human review.

What if you quote someone's joke threat and Twitter's AI can't distinguish that from an actual threat?

Or what if--speaking purely hypothetically-- s.o. breaks into your account and sends a threatening DM from your account to another account?

It's OK with me if AI accidentally deletes posts, but not if it accidentally deletes humans.

@CarolineBowen Structured Word Inquiry.

@CarolineBowen Only recently found out what exactly was preventing me from being me elsewhere--and only just relayed the story to Janyce (orally, which is the only way I can do it). I can say this much, though: nothing to do with FC or SWI!

@BronwynHemsley Tried that too. No luck

@BronwynHemsley

@BronwynHemsley Did that. @kbeals

I also tried @kbeals... It didn't like that either.

@BronwynHemsley Tried that also. There are too many characters, and the "g" from "org" disappears.

@BronwynHemsley

Nope

Yes--it's when I push on that button that I get the "please match the requested format" error above the username field.

Yep--it's the left column where I'm getting this message.