AI, Cognitive Science, info ecosystem
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AI "ending humanity", again? AI experts are not necessarily knowledegable about biotech, economics, politics, cybersecurity. "AI ending humanity" would be a legitimate concern only if...
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Eric Saund retweeted
What do experts worry about in the #artificialintelligence revolution? Imagining the Digital Future Director @lrainie talks about our new report on the impact of #AI by 2040 imaginingthedigitalfuture.or…
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Eric Saund retweeted
The Impact of #AI by 2040: AI impact will be a complex mix of localized benefits and global chaos. Thanks to @EricSaund for contributing to the report. Read his essay: imaginingthedigitalfuture.or…
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Very sorry to see Rep. Mike Gallagher retire. He served as a serious, honorable, and hard-working partner to my former boss Jim Langevin on the Cybserspace Solarium Commission. We need formidable, thoughtful voices on both sides of the aisle.
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Fellowship Opportunity
AAAS has mounted a rapid response to the demand for experts in AI and related fields to serve as Congressional Science & Technology Policy Fellows. This is short notice---apply by August 5, start in Washington D.C. Sept. 1.
aaas.org/ai-stpf-cohort
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Highly recommended quiz about your predictions of GPT-4's performance.
Word to the wise: If you are not confident, then settle for a middling probability.
nicholas.carlini.com/writing…
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#llama2
I appreciate that Meta trained Llama2 to avoid harmful responses.
But this is kind of ridiculous.
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A politician appealing to our better angels.
In a commencement speech, Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker says that the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.
Research supports this. Lower cognitive abilities correlate with bigotry. Cruel leaders who whip up hatred & tribal instincts do not deserve our attention.
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New book on Mark Weiser and his vision of Ubiquitous Computing--major beacons for research at Xerox PARC in the 1990's. Lessons for modern AI? As we become one with technology in body and mind, thoughtful philosophy is needed now more than ever.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
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I just subscribed to The Permanent Problem brinklindsey.substack.com/?u…
because the intro addresses big societal problems.
Will he address the Marketplace of Ideas in which people come to a framing of their place in the world?
Excellent exchange here between the eloquent Steve Pinker and incredible Scott Aaronson about the prospects of scaling deep networks to achieve AGI. I worked on NNs in the 1980's, but put me in the camp of the "baby-boom linguistic" types.
scottaaronson.blog/?p=6524
Excellent discussion but... Information warfare is based on human cognition. Incredibly ironic then, that throughout the entire interview they had this promo video running in the background to distract attention from the speakers. A little topical awareness would help here.
A VERY useful examination of how the Ukrainians got more than a billion people rooting for them--with a very limited communications budget. #LeadershipMatters #MoralsMatter #Courage #Peace4Ukraine #StratCom
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CISA Executive Director Eric Goldstein drives this point home at 1:39:00 in the hearing video.
Paging @Colpipe CEO Joseph Blount -- When our critical infrastructure is hit with ransomware, accepting @CISAgov’s assistance is about more than just your company.
It's about the entire nation's cybersecurity.
homeland.house.gov/activitie…
Eric Saund retweeted
Tragedy in the blogosphere: One of the best is being taken down. Scott Alexander (not his real name) explains: NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog | Slate Star Codex slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/2…
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You know what a Confusion Matrix is, but do you know how a Confusion Matrix *behaves*? Newly released: an interactive dashboard to explore.
youtu.be/LvfNv-Dy8r0
saund.org/cm-dashboard/CMDas…
Great conversation with entrepreneur and wifi expert @Jeff_Abramowitz about what AI can do about some big problems in this space. Glad he found this entertaining:
Great (mostly) non-technical explanation on how Alexa works. Check out short video/longer article on conversational agents & robot psychology by former @PARCinc colleague @EricSaund. #conversationalagent bit.ly/RobotPsy youtu.be/VWCaLQPPM2U
