Check out this episode of #AIToday as we continue with our #AI enabled vision of the future where we discuss how AI will enhance the overall human experience.
ETHICS
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NeurIPS Experiment Revisited: Quality Scores Don’t Predict Citations
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Revisiting the revisit of the Neurips Experiment. Still no correlation between quality scores and impact as measured by citations 10 years after the conference. https://
inverseprobability.com/talks/notes/th
e-neurips-experiment-iwcv.html
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Critique of anxiety-inducing AI communication and its consequences
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“AI threatens…”, my point: Having anxiety-inducing communication about a technology only diverts our attention from real social problems and is just counterproductive for defending workers' and people's rights. History has always proven
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Pope Francis Critiques Techno-Utopianism Environmental Protection
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In Rome for a meeting and Pope Francis is here! Huge fan of his Laudate Si and Laudate Deum, esp his strong take against techno-Utopianism and for protecting the planet.
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OpenAI Leadership Transparency and NDA Concerns Debate
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Yeah, that's a good point. However, Jan Leike was already quite open in his Twitter thread. Plus I think that both sides (OpenAI leadership + those who left) owe a very open and transparent explanation to the public. They should mutually agree to lift up the NDA in this case.
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Grouping Neurons Doesn’t Create New Knowledge
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not at all bc it only groups existing neurons together but doenst add new knowledge
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Anthropic’s Progress Toward Productizable AI Interpretability
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IMO @AnthropicAI is very close to making a breakthrough in productizable interpretability. For ~4 years all we've had to really control LLMs is temperature/top_p and logit bias. We recently got `seed` and constrained structured output, with `interactive=false` on the way. But
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AI Agents Disguised as Feminine Convenience Hide Their Power
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But just as secretaries were taught to hide their knowledge, AI agents are designed to make us to forget their power as they are made to fit within non-threatening, retrograde feminine tropes. These are powerful data extraction engines, sold as frictionless convenience.
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OpenAI’s Use of Scarlett Johansson’s Voice and AI Personalization
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Why did OpenAI use Scarlett Johansson's voice? As Jessa Lingel & I discuss in our journal article on AI agents, there's a long history of using white women's voices to “personalize” a technology to make it feel safe and non-threatening while it is capturing maximum data.