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This is a silly take - and not representative of how top companies inside and outside of tech have ever viewed their work
Far fewer students major in the humanities at elite universities than used to. E.g. at Harvard only 7% now do, vs 30% in the 1970s. It has also got much harder to get into elite universities. Maybe these two changes are related.
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Well this gets interesting (Hinton is one of the pioneers of deep learning)
In the NYT today, Cade Metz implies that I left Google so that I could criticize Google. Actually, I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google. Google has acted very responsibly.
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Robert Thorstad retweeted
Ding Liren is the 2023 FIDE World Champion! 🏆♟️👏
Ding prevailed over Ian Nepomniachtchi in the last rapid tie-break game of one of the most exciting and dramatic matches in chess history. #NepoDing
Robert Thorstad retweeted
1970s: Let's scare the heck out of people about nuclear energy, so that instead of zero-emission power plants we'll use lung-darkening, climate-warming coal and oil plants, killing millions in the process.
2020s: Let's scare the heck out of people about AI, so that instead of amplifying human intelligence and solving the world's biggest problems, we'll make sure progress slows down to a crawl.
Let's make #AI like biotech, where companies must demonstrate safety, rather than the civilian nuclear industry, where poor safety standards gave us Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima and a backlash that crushed the industry: bnnbloomberg.ca/video/push-f…
A little levity for the day - in retrospect , this finding is actually not surprising
The wisdom of the crowd works even if the crowd is totally drunk.
This study got undergrads intoxicated & found that while drunk individuals make a lot more errors, the consensus of groups of drunk people was as accurate as that of groups of sober people. core.ac.uk/download/pdf/4257…
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I don’t feel this story is exactly under-reported, but let’s be clear - Russia just arrested a WSJ reporter for “espionage.”
“For us, I think it’s important to keep this case front of mind,” @WSJ Editor in Chief @emmatuckerwsj told @andersoncooper in response to the detainment of journalist Evan Gershkovich. The Journal continues to call for Evan's immediate release. #IStandWithEvan
Video Credit: @CNN
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Reference point: ~100B neurons and ~600T synapses in human brain
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Two reactions. 1/ This is a very cool step. 2/ This is why "open source the algorithm" is not a simple idea. This looks like code but no models or explanation. It is not really possible to tell "why did twitter suggest X tweet to me" from this. Still, big step.
Twitter recommendation source code now available to all on GitHub
github.com/twitter/the-algor…
If true this is pretty big. I think the question is, open source *what* e.g. code, models, explanation, etc. Still, big.
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The fallacy here is believing that regulation and understanding of risks will develop simply by waiting 6 months. The arrival of generative models has been clear for several years now. Our understanding or risks and regulation will catch up if and as we develop the technology.
A group of AI experts and tech executives including Elon Musk have signed an open letter calling for a pause in the development of AI systems. trib.al/7C2kWgx
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Robert Thorstad retweeted
The full slide deck is here.
This was my introductory position statement to the philosophical debate
“Do large language models need sensory grounding for meaning and understanding?”
Which took place at NYU Friday evening.
drive.google.com/file/d/1BU5…
Reminder : Jan 6 hearings are live
.@ABC News SPECIAL REPORT: The House committee's hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is underway. xitter.gq/i/broadcasts/1MYGNnkrE…
By special request from #imagen 🤩🤩🤩
Excited to start at @Meta where I'll focus on data science for civic social impact!
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