The inclusion of watermarking is welcome, of course, but I bet that falls under "we promise to start working on this" and not "we'll stop polluting the information ecosystem with extruded synthetic text until we have it".
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Watermarking Promises: Insufficient Against AI Text Pollution
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The inclusion of watermarking is welcoming, of course, but I bet that falls under "we promise to start working on this" and not "we'll stop polluting the information ecosystem with extruded synthetic text until we have it".
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White House AI Companies Selection Process and Participation
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How were they chosen? Is the phrasing "top companies" coming from the white house, or just this reporter? Did any companies decline to join this?
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Tech Giants Face Pressure for Real AI Regulation Not Voluntary Commitments
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Okay, aside from the fact that we need real regulation, not toothless "voluntary commitments" that they're only going to "start" working on, I'm super curious about the collection of companies involved here: https://
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Synthetic Text Extrusion Is Not Reasoning: Critical AI Analysis
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Extruding synthetic text is not reasoning. If the extruded text looks like sometning sensible, it is because we have made sense of it. I find it dismaying that even critical journalists like @willknight feel a need to repeat these tropes.
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LLM Reasoning Capabilities and AGI Sparks Discussion
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The assertion that LLMs are "capable of surprisingly sophisticated reasoning" is supported with a link an article @willknight wrote on the "Sparks of AGI" paper + criticism of it. >>
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LLMs as Sophisticated Mimics: Knowledge Limits Explored
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And then he describes LLMs this way: "It may be best to think of them as preternaturally knowledgeable and gifted mimics that, although capable of surprisingly sophisticated reasoning, are deeply flawed and have only a limited “knowledge” of the world." >>
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AI Experts Warn of Uncontrollable Algorithms Within Years
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But, after listing pointers to work on the real harms of so-called "AI", he also adds: "Leading AI experts worry that the pace of progress may produce algorithms that are difficult to control in a matter of years." with a link to coverage of Hinton's AI doomerism media tour. >>
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Bots Misrepresented as Autonomous Intelligent Entities
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For example, @willknight writes "But despite the well-known limitations of such bots, the robots’ replies were reported as if they were the meaningful opinions of autonomous, intelligent entities." >>
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Critique of UN AI for Good Interactive Fiction Session
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This article by @willknight has some good points in it, but also some real howlers. Starting with the good: A clear take-down of the ridiculous interactive fiction session at the UN's "AI for Good" (ugh) conference where people "spoke with" robots. >>