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Multiple readings Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

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Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru joao Clément Canonne Olivia Guest suhr Pierre Alquier Lisa Messeri +8
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“A list of principles put forth by mathematicians, for mathematicians and other researchers, regarding the use of AI in research. "Number #9 will surprise you!" leidendeclaration.ai”

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“Andrew, here is a place to start for some background reading: leidendeclaration.ai >>”

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Emily M. Bender: Also worth re-upping: Mathematicians standing up against how their field is being used as marketing for OpenAI and the like: leidendeclaration.ai >>
Emily M. Bender: See also: www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...
Olivia Guest: Also worth re-upping: Mathematicians standing up against how their field is being used as marketing for OpenAI and the like: leidendeclaration.ai >>
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Mark Riedl: Do openAI and Anthropic employees not understand how computers work.
Mark Riedl: Any competent IT professional: Hey boss, what is this 8TB file doing on our server, and why is it executing continuously on 3TB of VRAM? Any competent IT manager: what ever it is, shut it down.
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VE, cybersocial occult investigator austin jeremymorrell.dev
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austin: - the software you see on your phone and in the world is the product of organizations, and organizations move s l o w l y. developers are significantly more productive but it doesn’t matter if that…
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VE, cybersocial occult investigator: The “AI copies itself to another computer” meme and the “recursive self improvement” meme are both ideas originating in science fiction, but which sound technically plausible enough due to the way …
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: It seems pretty clear that the technologists at the foundation labs are not experts at computer science and software engineering generally but have specialist expertise in only one very narrow aspe…
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Ben Recht: Also important, they are the same people: - their founder and a large part of their staff have worked at these companies. - their most outspoken researcher is married to someone on the OpenAI board…
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Ben Recht Hagen Blix
Ben Recht: That guy claims to be a climate scientist... no idea what he's doing there.
Hagen Blix: As someone who's written a fair bit about climate problems being projected onto AI, I assume the intent was to point out... well... that?
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