Unethical pro-tip: if you're an AC and you want to make someone else look bad, write a terrible meta-review and demand citations to many of their papers. Reminder that, despite the repeated authors here, we don't know who the ACs are. Don't jump to conclusions.
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Empathetic peer review in AI research publication process
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Usually, we think of AC rejections and being cold and uncaring. But this AC was quite empathetic, picking up on a self-critical comment from the author and supporting them in their journey. https://
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Paper Rejection Despite Acceptance Scores Highlights Review Process Issues
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The paper was rejected despite all scores being "Accept" or better, because the AC says they didn't compare with some other papers, which were never mentioned before. The AC should have raised this to the authors earlier, or figured out the relevance with help of the reviewers.
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Family Matters More Than Work or Business Relationships
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I’ll lay it out as simple as I can. Your family is more important than any work or business relationship, period.
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Tom Burns Shares Thoughtful Response to Peer Reviewers
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Webinar on AI, Gender, Stereotypes and Industrial Bias
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The #webinar "Industry and AI facing gender, stereotype and bias issues" organized by @DigitAqui and @AerospaceValley will be held on November 15th https://actuia.com/actualite/le-webinaire-lindustrie-et-lia-au-defi-des-questions-de-genre-stereotype-et-biais-organise-par-digital-aquitaine-et-aerospace-valley-se-tiendra-le-15-novembre/
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LLMs Generate Convincing but Wrong Completions Often
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this is an issue I also have with copilot. it often very convincingly pushes for long and beautiful but wrong completions LLM as “internet influencers”: surface form trumps content https://
x.com/shortstein/sta
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Blindsight: The AI Future We Should Avoid
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(Of all of the science fiction books we could be living in, Blindsight would not be my novel of choice.) Paper here:
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Secret AI: Why Humans Distrust Algorithmic Feedback Systems
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I expect that we are going to see an explosion of “secret AI,” where AI advice is delivered by humans. Why? We hate to listen to AI. For example, getting feedback from an AI system improved employee performance… until people learned it was from an AI, then performance DROPPED.
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Radio’s Role in Nazi Rise: Historical Media Amplification Study
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Analysis of radio broadcasts in pre-WW2 Germany finds pro-democracy broadcasts initially slowed the Nazi rise. But after the Nazis gained access to the airwaves, radio boosted Nazi membership & then it accelerated antisemitism (in areas of Germany that were already antisemitic).