Highly recommend this paper!

the vision of the 'self-driving lab' assumes that all sciences benefit from more efficiency and autonomy. As M.J. Crockett and I note, this risks producing more while understanding less. We outline accompanying epistemic risks of this outlook in Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Is #ChatGPT corrupting peer review?

Thought-provoking nature article on our recent finding that paper reviews are being written by #LLMs nature.com/articles/d4158…

Excellent 👇

This is a really fascinating and thoughtful deep dive into how we might best conceptualise the relationship between SM use and mental health. It's complicated (we all knew this), but Craig really goes into considering *how* it's complicated here. Worth a read.

Super important thread! Open Science (publish research details for SOTA) used to be the norm until a couple years ago and was the backbone of machine learning research. The various arguments against open models is unfortunate and frankly, goes against the spirit of science.

I'm so tired of being in rooms where people whisper about the absolute ARMY of Big Tech-funded people (most, but not all, ex-Googlers) that have popped up in nearly every corridor in DC where people are working on literally anything to do with AI. So let's talk about it! 1/12

Excited that I can finally announce this project with Iain Couzin, that has been the better part of a decade in the making.

Thrilled to say we have a PhD position w/ me Mark Blokpoel & Iris van Rooij 💭 Donders Institute: in Computational Cognitive Science titled: Cognitive capacities & machines: Why do calculators exist, if AGI cannot?
Salary: €2770-€3539
Deadline: 22-05-2024
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Important work on why cognitive science cannot be automated

M.J. Crockett This work may be of interest too

Anyone tempted to think AI Surrogates can replace human participants in experiments needs to read this devastating empirical critique by Angelina Wang & colleagues arxiv.org/abs/2402.01908

A great way to produce more while understanding less. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Over the past year, tech CEOs seem to have realized the naivete of their 'AGI in 3 years' projections. Instead of walking back their claims, they've watered down what they mean by AGI so much that it's meaningless now. It helped that AGI was never clearly defined to begin with.

Folks, please spread the word widely: My college is looking to hire someone who is an expert in 'the human impacts of digital technologies.' The role is a little funny, and I would be happy to talk with you about it. But you or a friend SHOULD APPLY.

careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/j…

Very good piece on AI risk by Jack Stilgoe

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

A few ethics-related issues, among them:
- Fact vs Fiction: This is rewriting history. Minimally, needs mechanisms in place (C2PA and/or watermarking) so future handling of GenAI images can be marked as such
- Consent: Likeness edited w/o consent
- Disclosure: People need to know

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