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@stanfordnlp shared
On Apr 14, 2022
At tomorrow's NLP Seminar we have Sam Bowman @sleepinyourhat (Stanford NLP alum; now NYU prof) talking about the dangers of underclaiming when reporting failures of NLP systems. Join us over zoom tomorrow at 11 am PT: https://t.co/a2DedttnuH, Abstract: https://t.co/VyOLUIZyDc https://t.co/ZCj1McyY9U
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The Stanford Natural Language Processing Group

The Stanford Natural Language Processing Group

The Dangers of Underclaiming: Reasons for Caution When Reporting How NLP Systems Fail Venue: Zoom (link hidden) Abstract Researchers in NLP often frame and discuss research …

@michael_nielsen shared
On Apr 17, 2022
This is from - I am not making this up - the Whitehouse: https://t.co/N9tK9WVVRG. A nice thing about their "appropriate units" argument is they could have chosen any day.
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White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Marks World Quantum Day

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Marks World Quantum Day

By the OSTP National Quantum Coordination Office Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is observing the first-ever

@hardmaru shared
On Apr 15, 2022
RT @jackclarkSF: I am delighted to announce that I've been appointed to the National AI Advisory Committee, which will advise the President and the National AI Initiative Office on matters relating to AI. https://t.co/flOwJm1sRV
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THE NATIONAL AI ADVISORY COMMITTEE (NAIAC)

THE NATIONAL AI ADVISORY COMMITTEE (NAIAC)

The National AI Initiative Act of 2020 calls for the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Secretary of Defense, the ...

@mxlearn shared
On Apr 15, 2022
[D] What to read about attention? https://t.co/GCP8lIWkO8
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[D] What to read about attention?

[D] What to read about attention?

5 votes and 2 comments so far on Reddit

@shakir_za shared
On Apr 13, 2022
RT @IasonGabriel: Check out the latest volume of https://t.co/SP8qCALmq3 which contains 26 open-access essays on AI and Society, including the final version of "Towards a Theory of Justice for AI"⚖️
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AI & Society

AI & Society

AI is transforming our relationships with technology and with others, our senses of self, as well as our approaches to health care, banking, democracy, and the courts. But while AI in its ...

@stanfordnlp shared
On Apr 14, 2022
RT @chrmanning: 🆕 in @americanacad’s Daedalus: Human Language Understanding & Reasoning. I tried hard to write a short, approachable piece with examples giving the history, current abilities, and likely near future of #NLProc—with a bit on models understanding meaning. https://t.co/yTgvv2ihXj
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Human Language Understanding & Reasoning

Human Language Understanding & Reasoning

The last decade has yielded dramatic and quite surprising breakthroughs in natural language processing through the use of simple artificial neural network computations, replicated on a very ...

@michael_nielsen shared
On Apr 14, 2022
From https://t.co/udag4h3iMN, on what exactly large language models understand.
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Do Large Language Models Understand Us?

Do Large Language Models Understand Us?

Large language models (LLMs) represent a major advance in artificial intelligence and, in particular, toward the goal of human-like artificial general intelligence. It is sometimes claimed, ...

@michael_nielsen shared
On Apr 13, 2022
A research thesis: (All from @gwern's fascinating https://t.co/mQVNmBEFOa ) https://t.co/MUy1BFzy5V
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The Scaling Hypothesis

The Scaling Hypothesis

On GPT-3: meta-learning, scaling, implications, and deep theory. The scaling hypothesis: neural nets absorb data & compute, generalizing and becoming more Bayesian as problems get harder, ...