Not a lot of scientists here but great to see at least a few outstanding representatives of civil society in the crowd — progress!
@garymarcus
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AI-Generated Sports Reports Criticized for Poor Quality and Lack Authenticity
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“The reports were mocked on social media for being repetitive, lacking key details, using odd language and generally sounding like they’d been written by a computer with no actual knowledge of sports.” #enshittification
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AI Experiment Paused After Confabulatory Failures
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Another AI experiment voluntarily paused after confabulatory screwups. https://
cnn.com/2023/08/30/tec
h/gannett-ai-experiment-paused/index.html
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Current AI Lacks Theory of Mind for Reliable Task Performance
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We need this, yes, but current AI doesn’t have enough theory of mind to pull it off, reliably, and I don’t expect it will in the near-term. The idea itself is hardly new, eg https://
technologyreview.com/2007/01/01/227
178/anything-you-can-do-i-can-do-meta/
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Sam’s Vague Advice Compared to Buy Low Sell High
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Am quite familiar with both but the problem was Sam’s advice it encompasses everything and nothing, just like the famously useless advice “buy low and sell high”
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Autonomous Cars Lack Clean Data for Safety Claims
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Agreed. But we don’t have clean data to indicate that this is remotely true for autonomous cars at present. Someday it will be, probably not in near-term.
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WolframAlpha Integration Challenges for AI Tooling
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On the point of tooling I linked in my essay a recent arxiv analyzing integration with WolframAlpha; it’s not at at all easy to get right. and if you can’t do that well, productization in many domains will be difficult.
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AI Chatbot Generates Dangerous Chlorine Gas Recipe Instructions
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Omg – “One recipe it dubbed “aromatic water mix” would create chlorine gas. The bot recommends the recipe as “the perfect nonalcoholic beverage to quench your thirst and refresh your senses”.
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Tech Market Competition Faces Potential Trade Restraint Concerns
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and 7 likes in first couple minutes the other way. certainly seems like evidence of needless restraint of trade, to me.
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What if Generative AI Failed to Deliver?
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What if generative AI turned out to be a dud? At my (free) newsletter that I can’t properly link here, I discuss some economic and geopolitical implications of this that X’s algorithm doesn’t seem to want you to read about.