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Professor of computational cognitive science
> teaching students how to question and critique [AI] should not be the panacea for biased, unregulated, and problematic AI. There is a risk that a focus on digital literacies can responsibilise young people in dealing with the significant problems of generative AI. www.ox.ac.…
What a breath of fresh air. Good to see at least one university being clear and granting students exactly the space they need to hone their skills. "The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitte…
"The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board" -- by Miles Klee www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 1/🧵
maybe this and the related table and figure can help? bsky.app/profile/oliv... pdf: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
"The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board" -- by Miles Klee www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 1/🧵
This is a study of Whisper, the LLM-based "transcription" software behind the products used by many medical providers. It gives the appearance of "fluency", but routinely goes entirely off-script, fabricating extensive passages and relations. Human scribes don't do this. arxiv…
This hangs with the other statements in fig 1: 1️⃣ ANNs (artificial neural networks) are inspired by human organism 2️⃣ ANNs are a black box we don't understand 3️⃣ We understand neither ANNs nor cognition therefore they are similar All 3 are misplaced! We unpack this... doi.o…
2. Climbing towards NLU: On meaning, form, and understanding in the age of data by Bender & Koller (2020) aclanthology.org/2020.acl-mai... 3/3
Also a short & snappy paper on these issues, esp. for psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists interested in modelling and AI & in how they contribute to or even hinder research, is this w/ @andreaeyleen.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... bsky.ap…
“We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth — the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “information”. — as quoted …
On the one hand, these AI forces — what I describe above as ideas that radiate outwards — have been discussed for decades (notice extract from 1985; doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) before they became as huge a mess as we see now, see: olivia.science/ai/ and bsky.app/profile/oliv... 2/