ACL/ICML highlights threats of LMs like ChatGPT generating paper content. However, I'm more concerned about reviews. Example: ChatGPT generates confident but nonsensical reviews better than any R2. Now, it's AC's job to spot real reviews, but I lack confidence in doing so

I think it would be in all of our interests if the whole AI community came together to fix this.

LM APIs are fickle, hurting reproducibility (I was really hoping that text-davinci-003 was going to stick around for a while, given the number of papers using it). Researchers should seriously use open models (especially as they are getting better now!) x.com/OpenAI/status/…

Notable: while LLMs are the singular force shaping the discipline & dominating the discourse in NLP, I saw absolutely nobody from the major LLM shops (OpenAI, Anthropic, .) make an appearance at #acl2023.

"Not working on XML in the early 2000s was like not working on LLMs right now." - anonymous professor

It's a great article to read! I'd like to add one other crucial cost in the calculation: people cost. The conventional cloud market is relatively heavy in software. AWS is called "web service" and not "Amazon Cloud" because there are a lot of manpower to build all the software

If you are a student or academic researcher and want to make progress towards human-level AI: >>>DO NOT WORK ON LLMs<<< LLMs are an off ramp. Thousands of engineers are working on LLMs with enormous computing resources. The only way you could possibly contribute is by analyzing

We’re excited to share our #ACL2024 conference and findings papers in our newest blog post: ccgblog.seas.upenn.edu/2024/08/ccg-pa…. Check out these papers from today’s sessions and next week’s virtual Findings presentations! Congrats to Vivek Gupta Yi Zhang Dan Roth and their co-authors!

New SIGMOD blog post: "Where does database research go from here?" where I examine the academic database research community from the lens of market competition and ask " what is our competitive advantage?" wp.sigmod.org/?p=3801

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As a researcher, it's easy to get distracted by what others are working on. I've seen many people conducting research on problems they don't genuinely care about—just because the community values them (e.g., solving Math Olympiad problems). It's important to focus on research

GitHub Copilot is an interesting exercise in the idea that no matter how good a thing is, there is always a newer thing that could be significantly better. Once you internalize this the world around you is just so obviously full of potential.

New Zuck post, what a difference a few years makes: Today: "We'll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source." 2024: "Meta is committed to open source AI... and therefore a platform that will be around for the long term."

The reviewer who wrote the negative review often did not participate in the discussion at all.

A rough structure for telling the story better would be: - Problem - Why it matters - What others missed - The key idea - Evidence - Limitations - Takeaway

From Law.com: “On Thursday, Greenshoe, a generative artificial intelligence-powered platform designed to help draft U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosures, announced a $3 million seed funding round, as well as the expansion of its platform’s

1. This is not the academic convention for coauthorship in CS. 2. If you operate by this convention, consider whether there are more fulfilling ways you could be spending your time.