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9 experts · 42 posts · 7h ago
sarah jeong Kate Klonick evacide Pwnallthethings Eileen Clancy 🧿 Blake E. Reid Nathalie Maréchal, PhD samuel mehr
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“everything is closed. they won't let us have our checked bags. no one is here to answer our questions or help us. so we have no food no clothes and no recourse. lol. lmao.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
sarah jeong: lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished …
sarah jeong: everything is closed. they won't let us have our checked bags. no one is here to answer our questions or help us. so we have no food no clothes and no recourse. lol. lmao.
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3 experts · 57 posts · 2h ago
Andrew Selbst Colin Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“do you see what I mean by "no one has any idea what you're talking about?" even the people who think they agree with you can't seem to get it right” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: > buddy you know what I mean if I say a conversation is "metaphysical" Will I am telling you, you are severely overestimating the degree to which this is true. I think for the most part no one know…
Colin: I frankly have no idea what it means for a conversation to be metaphysical in nature.
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5 experts · 20 posts · 19h ago
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Claas Voelcker Luis Villa Derek Willis
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“What is your favorite vision of an AI-enabled future that is currently being pursued as an active program?” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: What is your favorite vision of an AI-enabled future that is currently being pursued as an active program?
Eugene Vinitsky: Example questions: (1) What papers look like after AI (2) What is would look like for a positive society-wide benefit from AI (3) What job training looks like if tasks become easier Trying to work …
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5 experts · 16 posts · 9h ago
David Mimno angela zhou Lynn Cherny Adam L D. Hicks
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“Sometimes you need text output, especially for code. But a lot of the time we're just trying to get a simple 👍👎 for some fairly complicated question from a lot of documents. The hard part is often …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1 Context & explanation · 1
David Mimno: It's possible for Jev/Laya/Decision Models to be not that big a deal as tech and massive as a new paradigm. Here's why I'm really excited from an NLP history perspective (thread)
David Mimno: Around 2010, the most exciting approaches were clever ways to map complex structured prediction tasks into huge numbers of tiny decisions, usually performed with single-layer linear classifiers. Fo…
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5 experts · 12 posts · 20h ago
Alex Hern Colin Singularity's Bounty e/cc brennan B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
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“Noting that sometimes I ask “bad” questions just to see But I think there’s something to this. People have noted that LLMs can be receptive to LLM text (subjective, I don’t know any studies). And w…” evidence ↗
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Colin: This is the same reason I am against ideas on teaching students “how to use AI”. There’s not that much to learn. You just talk to it pretty much the way you expect.
Alex Hern: drop the tips
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3 experts · 16 posts · 10h ago
Hagen Blix Anthony Moser Abstract Tesseract
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“12. it is usually better to focus on people, and why people are doing things a) why are tech CEOs saying these things? b) why are bosses so excited about it? c) why do we write, draw, and make art?…” evidence ↗
Anthony Moser: as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one…
Anthony Moser: 1. most people do not know how LLMs work, or what inherent limitations might exist as a result of that approach 2. companies that make LLMs describe what they can do and how they work in misleading…
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2 experts · 21 posts · 11h ago
Marc Lanctot Colin
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“the "controversial loophole" in question is that they solved the problem exactly as it is explicitly stated by the Clay Mathematics Institute” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: This is an unbelievably misleading way to put this. I'd go so far as to say the headline is outright false.
Colin: the "controversial loophole" in question is that they solved the problem exactly as it is explicitly stated by the Clay Mathematics Institute
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3 experts · 4 posts · 16h ago
Michael Hoffman Berna Devezer tweety fish
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“I also wonder if this is some sort of narcissism. If people who wouldn't take feedback from people take what LLMs give them to heart without question, perhaps it's because they believe it's smarter…” evidence ↗
Michael Hoffman: Yikes!
Berna Devezer: I also wonder if this is some sort of narcissism. If people who wouldn't take feedback from people take what LLMs give them to heart without question, perhaps it's because they believe it's smarter…
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