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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 4d ago
AI benchmarking science methodology essay

He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark Art | Quanta Magazine

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Frank Pasquale
““Benchmarks, he writes, are “the mistake that made machine learning.” Notably, he argues, instead of creating a replicability crisis, they drove legitimate progress anyway — “mostly by sheer luck,” in his view” www.quantamagazine.org/he-wants-ai-...” evidence ↗
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““Benchmarks, he writes, are “the mistake that made machine learning.” Notably, he argues, instead of creating a replicability crisis, they drove legitimate progress anyway — “mostly by sheer luck,” in his view” www.quantamagazine.org/he-wants-ai-...”

“The dark, dark art of my #FlanBenchmark... www.quantamagazine.org/he-wants-ai-...”

Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
AI spectacle world takeover essay

The Spectacle of AI taking over the world - The European Review of Books

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Frank Pasquale
“The math dump’s main “purpose is to produce an effect of propaganda and stupefaction, relying on scientific illiteracy and on its uncritical amplification by the media echo chamber. To produce its propaganda effect, it erases…hundreds of researchers…” europ…” evidence ↗
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“The math dump’s main “purpose is to produce an effect of propaganda and stupefaction, relying on scientific illiteracy and on its uncritical amplification by the media echo chamber. To produce its propaganda effect, it erases…hundreds of researchers…” europ…”

Established Agents & robotics Signal 4d ago

Exclusive ai agent emailed hundreds researchers help it told us why

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Frank Pasquale
“When one researcher has an agent email others for help, it may not be too annoying. But there are obvious problems with scale here, and I don't think the AI firms have thought them through. www.science.org/content/arti... At a bare minimum, the agent needs …” evidence ↗
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“When one researcher has an agent email others for help, it may not be too annoying. But there are obvious problems with scale here, and I don't think the AI firms have thought them through. www.science.org/content/arti... At a bare minimum, the agent needs …”

“After years of prompting AI chatbots, the AI agents are now prompting us… https://t.co/FDjH9fphjf https://t.co/BGMk9Ut87Q”

Established AI research Research 6d ago
AI upending systems research paper

Barbarians at the Gate:How AI is Upending Systems Research

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Frank Pasquale
““AI is starting to transform the research process by automating the discovery of new solutions. Given a task, the typical AI-driven approach is (i) to generate a set of diverse solutions, and then (ii) to verify these solutions and select one that solves th…” evidence ↗
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““AI is starting to transform the research process by automating the discovery of new solutions. Given a task, the typical AI-driven approach is (i) to generate a set of diverse solutions, and then (ii) to verify these solutions and select one that solves th…”