abandonment of merit will cost american society greatly.
ETHICS
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Standardized Tests Dropout Without Legacy Policy Reform Fails Equality
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dropping standardized tests while maintaining legacy admissions policies and claiming it's about advancing equality of opportunity is not a serious position.
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Privacy Mechanism for 2020 US Census Data Protection
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This tweet, from three years ago today, may be the most impactful tweet I've made. It led to this privacy mechanism w/ @ccanonne_ @shortstein https://
arxiv.org/abs/2004.00010 That mechanism was used in the 2020 US Census. If you were in the US on 4/1/2020, it was run on your data. -
Siri’s AI Mood Detection and Privacy Concerns Explained
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Curious about how Siri detects your mood and if it's listening to your conversations all the time? Uncover the secrets behind Siri's AI-powered capabilities & learn how it is revolutionizing voice assistants here: https://
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Accurate CO2e Measurements for ML Models Matter
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An important thread about misrepresentation of CO2e numbers for different ML models. I believe it's good to use actual measurements of this data, rather than estimates that are flawed in a variety of ways.
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NAS Search Emissions Estimate Off by 88X
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… meaning the actual estimate for the one-time NAS search was off by 88X.
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Strubell Study Criticized for Misleading Carbon Efficiency Claims
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I completely agree with this take. Indeed, these issues have plagued other prominent work in this field. As one prominent example, the heavily cited Strubell et al. work took a one-time Neural Architecture Search done on TPUs in an efficient, low carbon Google Data center …
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White House Unveils New AI Bill of Rights Framework
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The White House just unveiled a new #AI Bill of Rights
by @Melissahei @techreview Learn more: https://
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Academic AI Tasks Bias Toward Short Length Outputs
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Read the flan limitations section of the blogpost. Most of the academic tasks are short. It creates a bias for short length outputs.
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Facebook’s LLaMA AI model leaked onto GitHub
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In case you missed it: Facebook's LLaMA AI model, intended for government and approved researchers only, was leaked onto Github: https://
github.com/facebookresear
ch/llama
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