AI data scientist at NHS National Services Scotland. Hon Lecturer in Comp Sci, University of Glasgow. Author of https://xitter.cf/t.co/gUVMPYIpCj Views my own, etc.
Joined January 2009
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Enjoying this podcast series featuring @MelMitchell1 on intelligence -- highly recommended
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Three articles in the @LRB this month that taken together are quite chilling: the wholesale swallowing of the religion of AI (article on Blair) + the use of AI in generating kill lists + the hollowing of the regulatory landscape (in context of grenfell)...
Quite a lot of my feed on her be "I made this app in <insert framework> just using <insert language model> without needing to understand!".
Imagine a bad actor creating /fintetuning an LLM that injects security vulnerabilities. Absolute carnage.
Cool - some of the boats doing this are tiny!
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It's been slowly dawning on me that the claims of AI reaching superhuman levels from the tech bros has more to do with their horribly narrow definition of human-ness than any improvements in their AI. And @ShannonVallor nails it here.
I really love this essay by @ShannonVallor:
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It points out that notions of "intelligence" held by AI researchers are very different from those held by people in cognitive science. I also wrote about this striking difference: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Hey @edfringe! Do you realise Anthropic AI rips off your performers past and present? Just a quick look at @_alexreisner's new tool shows work by Stephen Fry, Jack Whitehall, Graham Norton, Darren McGarvey scraped from YouTube without consent or remuneration to train Claude.
Today, we’re delighted to announce a new partnership with the AI safety and research company @AnthropicAI.
Believing that AI will augment, not replace, human creativity, Anthropic will be hosting a series of workshops at #edfringe this August to help artists, media and academics learn to use #AI as a day-to-day tool, freeing them up from burdensome administrative tasks so they can focus on their creative output.
Find out more: edfringe.com/learn/news-and-…
ALT A graphic shows the Fringe and Claude by Anthropic logos.
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Pyrotechnic football writing on deadline by @jonathanliew in trying to describe how badly 🏴 played tonight
Really looking forward to this from @lawrennd - penguin.co.uk/books/455130/t…
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When AI people talk about labour, they tend to frame jobs as sets of tasks, rather than sets of responsibilities.
There are sensible AI use cases, and then there are things like thus. Anything that removes humanity from the Olympics will make it worse. theguardian.com/sport/2024/a…
If you started with a large budget and a goal of reducing traffic fatalities, what would you do? I don't think autonomous vehicles (of the self-driving car flavour) would feature for me, given the proven alternatives for getting people from A to B safely.
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Jasmin Paris @JasminKParis finished loop five of the #BM100 in 59:58:21.
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While GenAI is fun, I think its economic value is grossly over estimated, because it’s unreliable, risky and expensive to make and serve. It’s fine for creative tasks, but not (yet) autonomous agents
Airline installs chatbot. Customer gets bad information from it. Customer asks for refund. Airline says "the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions" (!). Court says no. (Whew.) Airline makes refund and turns off chatbot. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…
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You are given an urn containing 100 balls; n of them are red, and 100-n are green, where n is chosen uniformly at random in [0, 100]. You take a random ball out of the urn—it’s red—and discard it. The next ball you pick (out of the 99 remaining) is:
23%More likely to be red
37%More likely to be green
21%Equally likely
19%Don’t know/see results
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