I wrote about AI in academia. "PhD-level thinking", LLM bias, grunt work, alignment, AGI, data center water use, AI politics -- something for everyone.
PhD-level thinking, LLM bias, alignment, AGI, data centers, and AI politics
Neil Shubin: "Curiosity-driven research is really the seed corn for the major breakthroughs and applications. But it’s also important in its own right, because discovery and the expansion of knowledge are virtues in themselves." 🎯
"As an institution, we are — by charter and design and history — nonpartisan. But we are in a deeply partisan age. Just by doing our work, we will be viewed in a partisan light no matter what. So our job is to double down on the science."
A principled vision for NAS via incoming Pres. Neil Shubin.
Tim Dickinson
Sasha Gusev
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I'm in favor of limits, but I think they should be imposed on dollar amounts, not on number of grants. Why should somebody with three small grants get penalized over somebody else with one large one?
