🤖💔 The 'artificial-empathy paradox':AI-generated empathy is convincing and well received, until recipients realize it is artificial. In a Correspondence published in Nature Human Behaviour I elucidate this phenomenon #AIRevolution #HumanEmpathy #ArificialEmpathy #AIlimitations

𝕃𝕠𝕟𝕕𝕠𝕟 𝕊𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖 ℂ𝕠𝕞𝕞𝕦𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕪 𝕊𝕙𝕖𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕘𝕒𝕟𝕤 Ed, Zarinah & Eric are stirring to build a series of community events around science in London. This will look like a series of events, lectures, hack nights, etc etc These community events are phase 1, and

Launching on Wednesday, Sept 25. Stay tuned! Right now, #AI is having a moment — and it’s not the first time grand predictions about the potential of machines are being made. But, what does it really mean to say something like ChatGPT is “intelligent”? What exactly is

📣AI SNAKE OIL is out today! Writing this book over the last two years has been a labor of love. Arvind Narayanan and I are very excited to hear what you think of it, and we hope you pick up a copy. Some reflections on the process of writing the book 🧵

Since we started offering free fine-tuning, developers have fine-tuned hundreds of thousands of OpenAI models. Free fine-tuning was supposed to end yesterday, but we've decided to extend it through October 31. 🔧👻 4o: 1M free training tokens a day 4o mini: 2M free training

Great Turing Lecture yesterday — Abeba Birhane on AI hype, concentration of power, and the uneven distribution of harms, benefits, and responsibilities

I'm talking at a conference later this year (on UX+AI). I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right. Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird. I open my original photo. No bra showing. I put

insanely detailed post on data centers semianalysis.com/p/ai-datacente…

Researchers designed a foldable drone that can fly with one wing

If LLMs were good at nothing else beyond taking unstructured data & structuring it and effective summarization & compression of text, that would be still a pretty big deal for many industries and researchers.

Incredible: AI can predict the winner of the 2024 election. Looks like there will be a few surprises; for example, there's a good chance that Iowa will win Texas.

You don’t need future AGI to see massive change.

Daniel Severo acm.org/diversity-incl…

Finally found it!

It seems like the battle to not attribute emotion to the AI, just like the battle to not call LLMs AI, has been lost.

friends, I'm thrilled to officially announce the AI Accountability Lab (AIAL) (@theaial.bsky.social), a research lab I'm leading at Trinity College Dublin, is launching today, Thursday Nov 28, 2024 aial.ie

🚨 [AI BOOK CLUB] "AI Snake Oil: What AI Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference" by Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor is a MUST-READ for everyone interested in AI, and it's our 🎉 15th selected book: 📖 About the book: "Confused about AI and worried about what it means

If I had a dollar for every time someone rediscovers or restates the thesis of the essay "AI safety is not a model property", I would be GPU rich 🤣 aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-safety-is…

GPT-3.5 (text-davinci-003) dropped two years ago. It was pretty astonishing (you can see me start to experiment in the thread). GPT-4 represented about as much of a leap a few months later. Since then, improvements across a wide variety of areas, but nothing as shocking (yet).

AI amplifying biorisk has been a major focus in AI policy & governance work. Is the spotlight merited? Our recent cross-institutional work asks: Does the available evidence match the current level of attention?