When a press release about an existential risk for humanity comes from some organization you haven't previously heard of, step 1 is to go on LinkedIn to check the background and experience level of every single person listed on the web site of said organization. Just saying…
SAFETY
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Ethical Surveillance in AI: Accountability and Oversight
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‘I do not think ethical surveillance can exist’: Rumman Chowdhury on accountability in Artificial Intelligence
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AI Leaders Warn Again of Potential Human Extinction Risk
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Artificial intelligence could cause ‘human extinction’, AI leaders warn [ again ] #ai #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #deeplearning #AIethics https://
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LANCE: Stress-testing Visual Models with Language-guided Counterfactual Images
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LANCE: Stress-testing Visual Models by Generating Language-guided Counterfactual Images propose an automated algorithm to stress-test a trained visual model by generating language-guided counterfactual test images (LANCE). Our method leverages recent progress in large language
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Transformers’ Limitations in Compositional Reasoning Tasks
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Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality Transformer large language models (LLMs) have sparked admiration for their exceptional performance on tasks that demand intricate multi-step reasoning. Yet, these models simultaneously show failures on surprisingly
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AI Industry Leaders Warn of Extinction Risk
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#AI Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn https://
nytimes.com/2023/05/30/tec
hnology/ai-threat-warning.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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High-Quality Labeled Data Critical for Safe Non-Hallucinating AI
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CEO of @SnorkelAI
, @ajratner sat w/ @IanDBarker @BetaNews to dive into the challenges of implementing AI and the growing importance of high-quality labeled data. Developing appropriate checks and training w/ domain-specific data is critical to building non-hallucinating & safe AI -
The dangers of AI attract attention, not its benefits
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Yes, I too first had questions about using AI in my work for certain cases. But if you talk about the dangers of AI, everyone will hand you the microphone. If you talk about the benefits of AI, nobody cares.
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AI Acceleration Essential for Humanity’s Survival Next Millennia
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When I think of existential risks to large parts of humanity:
* The next pandemic
* Climate change→massive depopulation
* Another asteroid
AI will be a key part of our solution. So if you want humanity to survive & thrive the next 1000 years, lets make AI go faster, not slower. -
ChatGPT Hallucinations: Researchers Question If Problem Is Fixable
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ChatGPT ‘hallucinates.’ Some researchers worry it isn’t fixable. https://
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3/05/30/ai-chatbots-chatgpt-bard-trustworthy/
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