samuel mehr

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i am a cognitive scientist working on auditory perception at the University of Auckland and the Yale Child Study Center 🇳🇿🇺🇸🇫🇷🇨🇦 lab: themusiclab.org personal: mehr.nz intro to my research: youtu.be/-vJ7Jygr1eg

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after some in-depth discussions with my lab and also drawing on conversations on here, we've edited our new policy on AI usage in my lab feel free to adapt or re-use with attribution, or to reply to tell me how awful this policy is lol

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inspired by @russpoldrack.org's AI policy for his lab, last night I drafted up this AI policy and came up with an initial set of use case suggestions for my lab

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certain social psychologists: we used LLMs to test simulated participants in our research study, so that we can make even more discoveries about the human mind the rest of the field:

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8yo: what was the population of Canada in the 1900s Mama: <googles it, reads gemini result aloud> 8yo, interrupting: mama! That's AI!!! Me: <struck by a skyward beam of pure, unadulterated pride; dies>

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my university's Concur subscription now includes an AI-assisted tool where you upload receipts and it populates the expense report on the one hand, this is less busywork than it was before; on the other, what could go wrong???

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there are many complex ethical and practical reasons for you to forbid students from using AI for scientific writing, and to not use it yourself for scientific writing. the most compelling one is simpler: the text an LLM generates or 'polishes' reads like shit

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<doing homework> 8yo: dada what is gemini Me: it's an AI thing that can do stuff in your slides if you want 8yo: why would I want it to do things to my presentation Me, straight-faced, stifling my pure joy at his comment: you mean because that's your work and nobody else's? 8yo: yeah? obviously

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seems like the LLM era has ushered in a change to the canon academic saying 'you should be writing' - now it's more like 'YOU should be writing'

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<school drop-off, on dress as a book character day> 8yo dressed as Harry Potter: you know there's a new Harry Potter show 8yo dressed as Homer Simpson: yeah and it's on HBO and they made it with AI!! so it's TOTALLY CRAP

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they already co-opted the ✨ emoji for AI slop, but now the actual word 'chat' is being taken over by Chat, short for ChatGPT??? c'mon man

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