We got one more, y'all. The season finale, as it were, with Stephanie Preston , Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, & Prof Aleksandra Cichocka. Closing with some compassion. A way to conclude the first formal year of the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making. Penn State Liberal Arts Penn State SSRI Rock Ethics Institute

Roe was just the beginning... there is still time to save our Country and Democracy. Vote every republican out of office,every single one. Vote Democrat from dog catcher to President. Every election, every time.

💫Vacancy: Lecturer in Critical Intersectional Perspectives on AI

Come work with us! Radboud University @[email protected] Radboud AI

Deadline: April 30

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I'm ecstatic to share that preorders are now open for the AI Snake Oil book! The book will be released on September 24, 2024.

Arvind Narayanan and I have been working on this for the past two years, and we can't wait to share it with the world.

Preorder: princeton.press/awecv19z

If you are using LLMs for summarizing long docs, you really should read this paper

Over 50% of book summaries (incl by Claude Opus and GPT-4) were identified as containing factual errors and errors of omission

Lesson: don't blindly assume AI summarization tools work. Test them.

It's frustrating that Arizona Republicans pursued an abortion law that wouldn't be allowed during Game of Thrones, but it's offensive that they are now saying that the ruling has gone too far now that their objective has been achieved.

VOTE THEM OUT. vote.org

We are THRILLED to announce that adtech renegade @ariellesgarcia is now part of Check My Ads as our Director of Intelligence!

Let’s face it… Just because you don’t know what’s in your training data, you can not just call it zero-shot 🤷‍♀️

1) We just relabeled the old concept of zero-shot learning from attributes to “I have not checked my training data “ resp. “ I have not seen the dataset” (and even…

Current AI models are complex lookup tables (my take)

From Bethge Lab

See Interest over time on Google Trends for Eye damage - United States, Past day - trends.google.com/trends/explore…

After Trump took credit again today for ending Roe, Joe Biden released to most heartbreaking and powerful ad you will ever see.

This is Amanda’s story. Everyone should see it. Watch it. It’s ok to cry. I did.
🔊Up
#FreshUnity
#AVoteForJoeIsAVoteForRoe

Since folks started using AI for “art” my commissions have been lessening, so either after May or June, I may stop and redirect things elsewhere, and more than likely won’t have time to do commissions anymore. It was a good run, but yea. It’s unfortunate.

On the one hand, these fantasies are absurd because we are nowhere close to knowing how to make humans obsolete.

On the other, these people can do incredible damage as they flail around trying to bring these fantasies to fruition. They are in control of so many things.

Wow, even Hamas leaders are in denial about themselves and the people they are fighting. Maybe people who are not in denial about either the IDF & Israeli Government or Hamas are a rare minority

'The perspective of a child could help AI learn language—and tell us more about how humans manage the same feat.' The Atlantic reports on recent studies from our lab, with comments from baby headcam pioneers Linda Smith, Chen Yu, Michael C. Frank

The unemployment rate ticked down to 3.8% in March.

We're now at 26 consecutive months of sub-4% unemployment, the longest such stretch since the late 1960s.

Finally the world can also witness the wonder of a train wreck that is ניר ברקת

When a national disgrace goes international.

Susan Hall casually sharing doctored imagery, misinformation

This pay per mile sign does not exist.

The original is here from Flickr:
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SK: 'A pay-per-mile scheme is not on the table and not on my agenda' london.gov.uk/who-we-are/wha…

I know this isn't enough but it's something