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An excellent thoughtful and clear review of the state of AI. yalereview.org/article/mela...

Melanie Mitchell: The Dangerous Unknowns at the Heart of LLMs yalereview.org
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  • AI systems excel on some tasks while failing surprisingly on similar ones, a pattern Mitchell calls 'jagged intelligence.'
  • Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI cofounder, is quoted saying LLMs 'generalize dramatically worse than people' in a way that is 'very fundamental.'
  • Mitchell says AI researchers, herself included, are still struggling to design effective evaluation methods for LLMs' uneven capabilities.
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I think the stakes are different in computing than it has been in neuroscience/philosophy, and the meaning of "is just a computer" differs. In neuro, it's a healthy debate between competing scientific paradigms. In computing, it's increasingly about dehumanization. www.nytimes…

nytimes.com
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Very interesting! It seems like there's a common trend here; a similar thing happens in visual art when medium-quality models make the most unintentionally-interesting pictures: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... osf.io/preprints/ps... (artbreeder images are deliberately manipulated f…

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The growth of “AI” companies create a new moral urgency to this distinction, since treating brains as “just computers” risks dehumanizing people, giving false moral weight to computers, or both. 16/ faculty.washington.edu/ebender/pape...

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On the last day of SIGGRAPH this year, we will hold a new technical workshop called "From Human Vision to Machine Vision", with talks ranging from low-level human visual perception, to applied perception, art & photography, and to machine vision. #SIGGRAPH For more info, see: …

From Human Vision to Machine Vision fromhv2mv.github.io
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