Who else is at @neurIPS in New Orleans? I’m here for 20ish hours, speaking tomorrow for the @globalsouthinai workshop. Excited and was honored to be asked. @IEEESA
ETHICS
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STEM Professors and Ideological Bias in Academia
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I’m afraid you are wrong. Some of the most vicious ideologues I came across were all STEM professors.
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Aspirational Futures Becoming Dystopian Reality for AI Researchers
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We are rapidly approaching the point where many “aspirational” futures are becoming dystopian retro sci-if, but people who had labored their whole lives in their pursuit have not realized it yet.
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Ideological Bias in American University Education Systems
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American Universities were literally why I immigrated to America, and was fortunate enough to attend one of the most prestigious ones. Unfortunately once there I was shocked by the extreme ideological proselytizing that I encountered, which had only become even more pervasive… https://t.co/kn7yxwu6Uv
— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) 10 décembre 2023American Universities were literally why I immigrated to America, and was fortunate enough to attend one of the most prestigious ones. Unfortunately once there I was shocked by the extreme ideological proselytizing that I encountered, which had only become even more pervasive
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Belief in Humanity: Evidence Over Divine Faith
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I believe in humanity, for which, unlike deities, we have overwhelming evidence of its existence.
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Following the Herd: Personal Struggles with Tech Adoption
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What’s about following herd in this? It’s just what’s happening around. It’s easy to say, maybe you can free your mind with everything, I simply can’t.
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Society Facing AI Challenges: Public Debate at ENS
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"La société face aux défis de l'intelligence artificielle"
Un débat public organisé par la revue européenne Le Grand Continent hébergé à l'ENS. Participants: Anne Bouverot, Marc Mézard, Martin Tisné, Jamal Atif, et moi-même. Ce débat s'inscrit dans la continuité de l'entretien -
Gemini Pro Bard Fails to Answer Current Gaza War Questions
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So I just asked Gemini Pro in Bard for the updates regarding the hottest news story these days, the war in Israel and Gaza, and its answer essentially was, I kid you not, "just Google it."
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Building Solutions Without Solving Real Problems First
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Even better: build something that just happens to utilize technology that you are familiar with and have no clue if it actually solves any problems.
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LLMs Impact on AI and Linguistics Debates
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rodneybrooks.com/blog post covering some of my opening keynote on Nov 28th for MIT's Generative AI Week is now up. This is one of the topics I talked about–the impact of the existence of LLMs on three long running debates in AI & linguistics. I have this handle at bsky social.