I'm not saying I'm like one of those old people who read the obituaries, but after I read the one about Major Oak, I had to read about Oliver Tree. I thought the tree was a person and the person was a tree, but it turns out both were very different human tragedies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:...
I have been watching the dialogue on this one closely. To everyone who is saying "OP is special, no one could use AI this way" well, I have spent 18 months doing significant amounts of scicomm in patient communities and they are ALL using AI this way.
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Don't want to listen to the US military on AI risk? Fine, how about Australia, Canada, the UK, and NZ?
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LLMs learn narrative from their pretraining data but what narrative content is actually in there? It turns out narrative is wildly unevenly distributed across sources and topics. New preprint with @andrewpiper.bsky.social @elliottash.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social:
Dispiriting, candid look at the “civic education” movement which makes me feel that the real crisis of the humanities rn is utter collapse of belief that they can produce new knowledge—replaced (on the right and sometimes the left) by a belief that they are morally or politically good for you
Pew Research published several new polls today on how Americans view AI. Several results struck me as interesting…
Read the results and Joe’s opinion on them:
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'USAID was actually widely recognized as one of the most efficient agencies across the government. As I said, 92 million lives it over the last two decades alone on less than one percent of the federal budget.'
Big news: after we demanded they stand down, the Trump admin stopped its plans to rip out 80% of our nation's ocean research equipment.
This proposal should never have seen the light of day. Our coastal economies deserve better than being treated as collateral damage in an ideological crusade.
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I had strong priors against LLMs for medicine. There are a lot of doctors in my family and I grew up viewing doctors as careful, skilled professionals. I had plenty of bad medical experiences, but I thought it would be hard to do better.
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