Assoc. Professor @UW_iSchool, Co-founder of Center for an Informed Public @uwcip. I study misinformation in science & society. Book: https://xitter.cf/t.co/KdCf8xpnNt
Seattle, WA
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Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
@CT_Bergstrom and I wrote a general-audience book on how to spot and refute misinformation, especially the kind wrapped in data.
Coming Aug. 4th, available here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
ALT Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World. A book by Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West
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Honored to be quoted alongside my advisor @jevinwest in the latest @Nature news article by @dcastelvecchi! It’s exciting to contribute to the conversation on @SakanaAILabs’s AI scientist and automating science in general. Check it out here: nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
A full commentary is coming soon.
Sharing one of the preliminary results related to popularity bias in cited references with AI generated papers disproportionately citing highly cited papers (~26000 citations per paper on average) in comparison to human written papers (~7500 citations) — an observation that was recently made by @jimmykoppel as well.
#AcademicTwitter #Science @SciencePlusAI #ScienceOfAIMediatedScience
My latest: @SakanaAILabs's AI Scientist is the latest development in automating science — although so far it can only do research in machine learning itself
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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🧵@jevinwest and I recently wrote a commentary: "Search engines post-#ChatGPT: How generative artificial intelligence could make search less reliable."
We discuss 6 critical issues as search engines transition from "helping" you find the answer to "answering" your question.
ALT Illustration of a search engine being controlled by an AI. Illustration generated by using You.com's Create mode.
TrueMedia.org: new non-partisan, non-profit effort to detect manipulated media geekwire.com/2024/new-ai-non… via @GeekWire
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New nonpartisan AI nonprofit @truemediadotorg, led by Oren @Etzioni and backed by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp (@gc), is making a political deepfake detector geekwire.com/2024/new-ai-non… via @GeekWire – at Seattle, WA
Ironic that Ioannidis led a study on extremely productive authors, which "has become worryingly common across scientific fields." From my count he has published more than 150 papers in the last 2 years. That is about a paper every 5 days. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Silicon Valley hype oozes from this video (eg, ‘understanding of science’, ‘reasoning capabilities’, ‘reads 200k papers’) but the re-graphing tool is pretty nice. If it can do that consistently and reliably, worth trying out. youtu.be/sPiOP_CB54A?si=MRXz… via @YouTube
Press Forward Will Award More Than $500 Million to Revitalize Local News macfound.org/press/press-rel…
Frightening how easy disinformation has become: youtu.be/cwGdkrc9i2Y?si=oaKt… via @YouTube
Have large language models developed analogical reasoning skills? Maybe, but our simple experiments demonstrate otherwise: arxiv.org/abs/2308.16118
Congress escalates push for disinformation researchers’ private documents washingtonpost.com/technolog…
Suspensions of prominent accounts minimally impact platform engagement osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/x4… via @OSFramework
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🧐Can language models generate new scientific ideas?
Introducing contextualized literature-based discovery (C-LBD):
1. (L)LMs are given specific contexts/motivations + retrieved *inspirations* from papers💡
2. Goal is to generate text with novel hypotheses.
New preprint: 🧵⬇️
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Science published a hopelessly credulous news story entitled "Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common" about one of the worst preprints we've seen in years.
This is some next-level bullshit. Over at Mastodon, a full thread: fediscience.org/@ct_bergstro…
Searching the web for science: how small mistakes create big problems nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
The chatbot era: Better or worse off? My two cents, as it relates to misinformation. seattletimes.com/opinion/the… via @seattletimes
Utah’s social media for kids law could be coming to a state near you vox.com/technology/2023/3/25… via @voxdotcom
Can Humans Find Common Ground? Sure. Just Start With Sea Slugs. nytimes.com/2022/12/09/us/in…
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"I’ve wanted to type questions into a search bar and, in seconds, read the consensus from decades of scientific research. Such a tool is already in development and is called Consensus." @DKThomp
AI is redefining search. Sign up at consensus.app
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