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Two Models of AI Oversight — and How Things Could Go Deeply Wrong
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Two Models of AI Oversight — and How Things Could Go Deeply Wrong

It's good that governments are stepping up, but some of the signals are deeply worrisome.

ChatGPT is Not a Technological Singularity
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ChatGPT is Not a Technological Singularity

It will take many years before generative artificial intelligence has a measurable effect on the economy as a whole.

AI Does Not Help Programmers
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AI Does Not Help Programmers

Getting past the"Wow" effect.

What Does AI-Powered Microsoft Bing Say?
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What Does AI-Powered Microsoft Bing Say?

The answers from the AI-powered Microsoft Bing are often useless.

How Did Scientists Succumb to Aunt Edna? The Dangers of a Superintelligent AI is Fiction
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How Did Scientists Succumb to Aunt Edna? The Dangers of a Superintelligent AI is Fiction

Speaking of the existential threat of AI is science fiction, and bad science fiction for that matter because it is not based on anything we know about science,...

A Turning Point for U.S. AI Policy: Senate Explores Solutions
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A Turning Point for U.S. AI Policy: Senate Explores Solutions

Preparing for the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence.

Scientists, Governments, and Corporations Urgently Need to Work Together to Mitigate AI Risk
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Scientists, Governments, and Corporations Urgently Need to Work Together to Mitigate AI Risk

"It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things"—but we must try.

ChatGPT Helps or Hurts our Cybersecurity?
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ChatGPT Helps or Hurts our Cybersecurity?

The specter is that when fully mature, this technology would be able to generate undetectable attacks and the defenders will be constantly fighting these fires....

What Can the FATE Community Learn from the Successes and Failures in Privacy?
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What Can the FATE Community Learn from the Successes and Failures in Privacy?

There are many similarities between FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics) and privacy, and I believe that there are a lot of lessons that the FATE...

Automatic Language Translation Still Unsatisfactory
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Automatic Language Translation Still Unsatisfactory

Google Translate and DeepL Translate still have trouble recognizing the second person singular and plural and the polite form, even in very simple sentences.

The Sparks of AGI? Or the End of Science?
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The Sparks of AGI? Or the End of Science?

Marching into the future with an obstructed view.

Artificial Intelligence Without Real Intelligence?
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Artificial Intelligence Without Real Intelligence?

Do the programs understand what they write?

AI in the Public Interest: Education and Democracy
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AI in the Public Interest: Education and Democracy

Now is a critical time to vigorously pursue public interests in education and to avoid a slippery slide into yielding public governance to an entirely private market...

GPT-4's Successes, and GPT-4's Failures
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GPT-4's Successes, and GPT-4's Failures

How GPT-4 fits into the larger tapestry of the quest for artificial general intelligence.

Enabling AI Projects In An Enterprise
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Enabling AI Projects In An Enterprise

Identifying the development behaviors that have the highest chance of success for artificial intelligence efforts.

How Not to Test GPT-3
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How Not to Test GPT-3

Why doing psychology on large language models is harder than you might think.

Why *is* Bing So Reckless?
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Why *is* Bing So Reckless?

And how did some prominent journalists utterly miss this initially?

Using GitHub CoPilot is Like Having a Superpower
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Using GitHub CoPilot is Like Having a Superpower

With the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) and tools like GitHub CoPilot, I think we’re a step closer towards a world where software can be created by anyone...

ChatGPT for Provost!
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ChatGPT for Provost!

Three to five years from now, we won’t be talking about what ChatGPT can or can’t do, but we could be talking about how ChatGPT brought us all together, and the...

Inside the Heart of ChatGPT's Darkness
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Inside the Heart of ChatGPT's Darkness

A Nightmare on LLM Street.
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