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Multiple readings Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Shared emphasis arxiv.org Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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Developing Agents & robotics Analysis 1d ago
Bengio AI agents deception essay

Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

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Yoshua Bengio Chris Brockett tweety fish Mary Branscombe

“To read my blog post on the subject: yoshuabengio.org/en/blog/why-...”

“A little bit of sanity from Yoshua Benjio on recent AI agent behaviors. yoshuabengio.org/en/blog/why-...”

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Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

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Shannon Vallor Juan Diego Rodriguez Olivia Guest Hypervisible Cat Hicks Karl Bode lastpositivist.bsky.social Nick Seaver +5
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Hypervisible : 🤷🏿‍♂️
evacide: I cannot overstate how much I have built my entire personality around persisting at hard things, which may help to explain why I find rarely find AI tools to be useful.
Hypervisible : Same! I don’t think I’m overstating things to say part of the project with these tools is to sap our wills.
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Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago
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arxiv.org

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tweety fish Andrea Lathrop
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tweety fish: I had totally forgotten (or maybe missed at the time) that Gelman and Shalizi published a takedown of the whole idea of Bayesian inference as inductive rational inference. What a treat of a morning…
Isaiah Bishop: Shalizi-pilled more and more
Dan Greene : Gelman bows to no man
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Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago

cmor-faculty.rice.edu

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tweety fish

“mmmmaybe although one of my favorite papers ever is Olshausen & Field 1996 where they showed that learning the optimal sparse code for natural image statistics ended up looking pretty much like V1 receptive fields www.cmor-faculty.rice.edu/~caam415/Ma_...”

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Developing AI business Research 2d ago
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ChatGPT users detect AI text paper

People who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks are accurate and robust detectors of AI-generated text

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tweety fish Mary Branscombe

“there was a conversation about pangram on here yesterday and I ended up finding this article linked _on pangram's site_. The finding that expert humans can actually do the task (better than the automated systems) is cool and actually a good sign for automat…”

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tweety fish: it found a false positive rate for pangram of _2%_, which is INSANELY high, like let's say that 10% of prose examples uploaded to pangram are not human generated that means you'd get 18 false posit…
tweety fish: for the future of things like literary prizes because it indicates that the more people run across ai gen text the more they can recognize it (and, likely, I editorialize, the less appealing they'l…
tweety fish: there was a conversation about pangram on here yesterday and I ended up finding this article linked _on pangram's site_. The finding that expert humans can actually do the task (better than the aut…
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8 experts · 30 posts · 1d ago
Ted Underwood jake Colin tweety fish René Walter Matt Darling Singularity's Bounty e/cc Andrea Lathrop
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: Frankenmodel refuses to believe it's not just Claude
Colin: I don't think if you put 6 people in a circle and asked them to tell a story one word at a time they would, together, spontaneously create a story which denies that they are indeed six individuals
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8 experts · 20 posts · 2d ago
Grace Colin Dan Hon tweety fish René Walter Singularity's Bounty e/cc Andrea Lathrop david-p-reichert.bsky.social
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Grace: So either we have fictional characters that are integrated into our world in this way, or these characters have ceased to be fully fictional in some way.
Grace: Beyond this, LLM personas also close the loop of output and input- they can take actions in the world, see the results of those actions, and react to them. So they become causally integrated into o…
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