Public Health Should Inform, Not Dictate Emotions
One outbreak and the entire “sane” side of public health resorted back to the paternalism of telling us not to worry or “panic”, “this isn’t Covid”, etc. They didn’t learn a thing. We didn’t appoint them to be our therapists or parents. Provide info, don’t dictate how to feel.
AI Detectors Mislabel Human-Like Writing; AI Not yet AGI
While this may work on some AI detectors, the method misunderstands the key differences between AI and human writing and will falsely tag some good writing that LLMs emulate. “Generative AI is extremely impressive but not on a path to AGI”...
No Single AI Will Settle Adversarial Disputes
I will take the other side of this bet, starting with the idea there will be a singular “AI” with a singular answer that will actually be accepted as an arbiter by adversarial parties. This reminds me of more information will...
LLMs Are Powerful, But Not Search or AGI
No it’s not. Search isn’t like an LLM anymore than a car is merely a horseless carriage. An LLM is also not like a calculator is to arithmetic. And generative AI isn’t yet on any kind of path to AGI where...
Decarbonization Rush Under China Increases Human Suffering
One result will be the human toll during the painful rush to decarbonize under Chinese hegemony (industrial base for that is there). This is probably baked in by now though depth of suffering depends on how and when this phase...
Questioning Whether AI Neutrality Examples Were User‑Generated
Does anyone at @AnthropicAI want to answer this? Is the notion that “electricity or the internet” are examples of “a neutral tool” something respondents voiced NAMING those two OR did people just say “AI is a neutral tool” and @AnthropicAI researchers...
Clinical Trials Randomize Experiments, Keep Standard Care for All
The dog *also* got standard-of-care treatment. Who knows what worked? Randomize some getting one-off custom vaccines but whole group gets standard of care. How ALL modern clinical trials work. If true, put big money to improve. Otherwise don’t push snake oil on...
New Deterrent Outshines Nukes, Redefining Global Power
Disagree. They have shown themselves and the world they have a solid deterrent, tbh. A nuke isn’t anywhere as usable as the deterrent they now provably possess and can improve on, and does not come with problems and existential fears of...
Bill Links AI Liability to Human Standards, Threatening Immunity
So I actually read the bill. It would attach liability to the chatbot answer ONLY IF there would similarly be liability if a person said the same thing. It’s a challenging question, sure, but I don’t think the public will be okay...