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Established AI field signal Resource 13d ago
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arXiv.org e-Print archive

8 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Zachary Lipton Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Ramon Astudillo Alison Gopnik Ben Schmidt Mandana Samiei Federico Pianzola
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“arxiv.org, doi.org, biorxiv.org, medrxiv.org, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, nature.com, science.org, pnas.org, semanticscholar.org, openreview.net”

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“Just me or does @ChatGPT search the most random websites no matter the query? If I ask for the best bagel, it will “Searching ” + {https://t.co/vEQ6I1WmCF, https://t.co/5JR1Db9NqB, …}”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Ted Underwood: I just eliminated 22 tabs by doing this: osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome" to get URL of every tab of front window' | tr ',' '\n' | grep arxiv.org list of urls -> LLM -> annotated read…
Ted Underwood: did I come up with that idea by myself? no I did not
Karandeep Singh: Any suggestions for the other 478 tabs?
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Established AI field signal Signal 17d ago

nytimes.com

7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Mel Andrews Luke Stark Alison Gopnik Tim Carmody Meredith Martin Jane Rosenzweig Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)

“This is an excellent article by Leif Wetherby - why AI is a cultural technology not a collection of human-like agents (citing our work on this). And why the anthropomorphism is a distraction from the very real risks and dangers and the way to deal with them…”

“There are many kinds of intelligence, and not all of them are ours. To have intelligence, to cheat, to have goals is not innately human. It does not imply the existence of a soul. (“Sin” might.) Virtually all organisms can “cheat.” If you’re going to be a d…”

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Alison Gopnik: This is an excellent article by Leif Wetherby - why AI is a cultural technology not a collection of human-like agents (citing our work on this). And why the anthropomorphism is a distraction from t…
Luke Stark: This is an excellent article by Leif Wetherby - why AI is a cultural technology not a collection of human-like agents (citing our work on this). And why the anthropomorphism is a distraction from t…
Neil Turkewitz: Excellent! See this from 2020, including: “Technological capacity isn’t self-fulfilling & decisions don’t take place by default. Inaction based on perceptions of lack of agency are our enemy, & the…
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