So so excited for Sepehr Assadi to be joining us in just a few months. And he's coming here with a shiny new Sloan Fellowship! Congrats Sepehr!
@thegautamkamath
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ChatGPT-Powered Bing Forces User Apology Over Date Disagreement
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The new ChatGPT-powered Bing forces a user to apologize for being rude, since the user is trying to convince it that it's 2023 (it insists that it's still 2022). My favourite part is the repeated "I have been a good Bing." Full convo here: https://
old.reddit.com/r/bing/comment
s/110eagl/the_customer_service_of_the_new_bing_chat_is/
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Google penalized for chatbot error, Microsoft rewarded despite threats
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Google: Advertise an unreleased chatbot, makes a minor factual error about exoplanet photos. Lose $100,000,000,000.
— Gautam Kamath (@thegautamkamath) 16 février 2023
Microsoft: Release a chatbot that threatens to hunt down and murder users, in some cases for correcting its factual errors. Stock rises.
🤷 https://t.co/qvzYA4eX6CGoogle: Advertise an unreleased chatbot, makes a minor factual error about exoplanet photos. Lose $100,000,000,000. Microsoft: Release a chatbot that threatens to hunt down and murder users, in some cases for correcting its factual errors. Stock rises.
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SaTML Videos Released: Gebru on AGI Ethics and Eugenics
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s from SaTML are now online (
https://
satml.org/videos/)! Few highlights in this short thread. @timnitGebru's keynote on "Eugenics and the Promise of Utopia through Artificial General Intelligence" sparked a lot of discussion already, check it out: https://
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Introduction to Differential Privacy for ML Models
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Finally, yours truly with a tutorial "Introduction to Differential Privacy." My goal was to go from 0 to the ideas needed to train an ML model privately in 1 hour. https://
youtube.com/watch?v=9lqd2U
INW-E
… Check out all the rest of the videos here: https://
youtube.com/playlist?list=
PLFG9vaKTeJq7MklvBGk31GeceuDB4Ofmp
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Jacob Steinhardt on Aligning ML Systems with Human Intent
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Jacob Steinhardt (
@JacobSteinhardt
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youtube.com/watch?v=uPH1xI
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Robustness in Machine Learning: Five-Year Retrospective
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Zico Kolter (
@zicokolter
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youtube.com/watch?v=jm4pfA
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SaTML Keynote: Eugenics and AGI Utopia Promise
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s from SaTML are now online (
https://
satml.org/videos/)! Few highlights in this short thread. @timnitGebru
's keynote on "Eugenics and the Promise of Utopia through Artificial General Intelligence" sparked a lot of discussion already, check it out: https://
youtube.com/watch?v=P7XT4T
WLzJw
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ChatGPT-Powered Bing Forces User Apology Over Date Confusion
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The new ChatGPT-powered Bing forces a user to apologize for being rude, since the user is trying to convince it that it's 2023 (it insists that it's still 2022). My favourite part is the repeated "I have been a good Bing." Full convo here: https://
old.reddit.com/r/bing/comment
s/110eagl/the_customer_service_of_the_new_bing_chat_is/
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Computability Constraints Redefine Online Learning Theory Characterization
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Congrats to @UWCheritonCS colleagues Niki Hasrati (
@niki_hasrati
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@shaibendavid5
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arxiv.org/abs/2302.04357
