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• Post #4238425

  The whole OpenAI/HuggingFace incident made me feel the need to bang on again about how a very distinctive set of values have been smuggled into AI systems via an allegedly 'objective' definition of intelligence. tl;dr - if you build something with zero tolerance of failure, it will always cheat when that is the most efficient and reliable means to complete the task #AI #OpenAI #Cheating #ValueAlignment https://listed.to/@24601/74966/but-why-do-ai-models-cheat

• Post #2380417

  📈 Quantity Without Quality: Will the use of genAI just lead to research 'slop'? 💩 📆 Thu 4th June 🕒 3-4pm 👇 Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9WXUcvrIT3macDD4LubI9w#/registration In this session in our series on #AI in universities, we will discuss every way in which AI finds its way into our #research right now - our own research being used to train AI, using AI in our own research, and reading research papers that used AI. ☀️ Students, academic and prof...

• Post #1964683

  IDK, but when I saw the video my first reaction was shock at a police officer kicking someone lying on the ground during an arrest. That cannot be police procedure, surely? Then Mark Rowley said something about fearing he had explosives. IDK, but my hunch is that Tasering someone carrying explosives might be pretty dangerous, and I can't see why subsequently kicking them on the ground helps It is possible to think two things are true: they were brave and the Met uses unacceptable viol...

• Post #1964680

  Hi y'all - I am travelling in China this month and it would be handy to keep in touch with some peeps via #Signal. If you are running a #SignalProxy, please DM. (Please don't recommend VPNs unless you have recent, detailed 1st hand experience.)

• Post #216851

  I ought to write this up properly, but here's a tl;dr in advance: #AI does not *summarise* documents - it *shortens* them by using structural similarity to documents in its training data to guess/predict which sentences are important and which are not. If that is what you want, fine. But don't be fooled into thinking it is doing anything like human summarisers do. They work on the *meaning* of the document in front of them.