AI twitter had erupted in controversy over Meta’s release of the Galactica demo. Is it a dangerous product, or was it unnecessarily maligned with overblown fears of harm? Here’s my take.
ETHICS
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Automating supervisor outreach raises ethical concerns
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If someone's using a shell script to contact potential supervisors, I think they're doing something wrong…
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NeurIPS Authors Overestimate Acceptance Chances Dramatically
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Figure 1b) shows >= 90% of #NeurIPS2022 submissions thought they had a >= 25% chance of getting accepted. But only ~25% were accepted. Does this mean:
a) Authors overrate their work or b) Reviewers underrate most papers? Source: https://
blog.ml.cmu.edu/2022/11/22/neu
rips2021-author-perception-experiment/
… https://
cs.cmu.edu/~nihars/prepri
nts/NeurIPS_2021_Author_Perception_Experiment.pdf
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AI Drives Reflection on Ethics in the Digital World
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Quite the opposite. Thanks to AI advancement, we are questioning digital ethics for the first time. For 20 years we have been allowing companies to do whatever they want with people in the digital world
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Large Language Models Could Become Presidents
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If Biden can be president, so can a large language model.
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Rigor vs Impact: The Inverse Hierarchy of Scientific Disciplines
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In the pecking order of rigor, mathematicians look down on physicists, which look down on engineers, which look down on computer scientists. In the pecking order of impact, it's the other way around.
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AI enhances social life rather than replacing it
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In my experience it shouldn’t come at the cost of social life, in fact it enhances it in many ways.
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Lawsuit challenges AI training on copyrighted human-created data
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Lawsuit takes aim at the way #AI is trained on publicly available but copyrighted data. Is it illegal appropriation of work done by humans?
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Hallucination Risk in Generative AI Products and Market Response
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Hallucination is an existential risk to any generative AI product, and people are blindly (irresponsibly?) forging ahead (and we're all tired and wary of "haha this was all AI!" rugpulls). Observing the different reaction to @MetaAI
's Galactica vs @metaphorsystems is instructive