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New Culture, work & education Signal 17h ago

Artificial intelligence ai danger

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · zeynep tufekci
“Polls show people expect AI to at least advanced science. Navier-Stokes, right? AI may throttle science instead! It doesn’t always advance understanding, its glut overwhelms filters for quality, and its methods don’t fit medical research. Gift link to my NY…” evidence ↗
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zeynep tufekci Prof. Dr Beth Singler

“Polls show people expect AI to at least advanced science. Navier-Stokes, right? AI may throttle science instead! It doesn’t always advance understanding, its glut overwhelms filters for quality, and its methods don’t fit medical research. Gift link to my NY…”

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zeynep tufekci: Polls show people expect AI to at least advanced science. Navier-Stokes, right? AI may throttle science instead! It doesn’t always advance understanding, its glut overwhelms filters for quality, an…
Clément Canonne: Thank you for this! Fwiw (small thing): @tdietterich.bsky.social is here, the article didn't need to link to X for this post! bsky.app/profile/tdie...
Thomas Dietterich: I always post to bsky first
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OpenAI AI trainers fired using AI

People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · 404 Media
“We literally just published this about OpenAI today: Humans are training ChatGPT by reading users' prompts -- which yes, can contain sensitive info. They're also getting fired for using AI to train the AI. www.404media.co/people-train...” evidence ↗
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Alex Hanna 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Nathalie Maréchal, PhD

“We literally just published this about OpenAI today: Humans are training ChatGPT by reading users' prompts -- which yes, can contain sensitive info. They're also getting fired for using AI to train the AI. www.404media.co/people-train...”

“New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. People using AI "all the time and people are let go for it all…”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Joseph Cox: New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. Pe…
Alex Hanna: New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. Pe…
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫: Yum!
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3 experts · 57 posts · 3h ago
Andrew Selbst Colin Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“You frame the null hypothesis as “A language model can not tell fact from fiction” then look for examples where they can. Benchmark it, even, see how reliable they are at doing that” evidence ↗
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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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“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 …” 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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“That's where a model optimized for making simple decisions from complex inputs is so exciting. Clear answers, fast cheap inference, and compatible with the kind of sequence-of-decisions logic we we…” evidence ↗
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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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4 experts · 10 posts · 11h ago
Colin rev. howard arson Doll Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“right, but Anthropic sucks at it and on the Codex side the software engineers are not talking to the post training people” evidence ↗
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rev. howard arson: i think that one major thing that laypeople need to understand is the near-total disanalogy between programming and machine learning
rev. howard arson: tbf i do not think that karl is one of them but this is something which makes sense if your concept of ChatGPT is that it is a type of software
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3 experts · 7 posts · 1d ago
Cameron Doll Rich Harang
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“Also if someone wants to start up their own new model training its scraping time” evidence ↗
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Doll: Also if someone wants to start up their own new model training its scraping time
Cameron: A lot of this is Sol I think, so can't take too much credit here.
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3 experts · 5 posts · 22h ago
Clément Canonne Suresh Venkatasubramanian Shriram Krishnamurthi
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“Yeah, Margaret Mitchell acknowledges that in her recent post about the SP paper!” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Shriram Krishnamurthi: It boggles my mind that there are this many people on Bluesky who actually understand some of the math behind modern AI, and yet most of the people who respond to me get hella mad if I refuse to ac…
Clément Canonne: "You can criticize and reject the use of a thing while acknowledging what the thing is (and it may actually be a better strategy)" Also, as a technical point, parrots are hella smart.
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2 experts · 8 posts · 9h ago
Pavel ae
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“(also i think you could probably get a lot of frontier lab buy-in for the game because it would be a natural benchmark for models)” evidence ↗
ae: it also seems too that game companies have an impoverished view of what they can do with the big rig hardware resources gamers have too
ae: the AI revolution of the last decade was kicked off by the insight that you could use a GPU for more than just graphics
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3 experts · 3 posts · 11h ago
Marc Lanctot Blake Richards Nicole Rust
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“My hot take: We were *already* in a state of being overwhelmed by reviewing grants, scholarships, and papers prior to generative AI. Now it's not even close to tenable. The time to start rethinking…” evidence ↗
Blake Richards: My hot take: We were *already* in a state of being overwhelmed by reviewing grants, scholarships, and papers prior to generative AI. Now it's not even close to tenable. The time to start rethinking…
Marc Lanctot: 60k submissions to ICLR 🤯.... we have been boiling the frog 🐸
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