r/bsg had a nice quality community over there on #reddit. I missed that so I went a created a #kbin #magazine for the #battlestargalactica fans out there. If you want to hang out with fellow like minded “skin jobs” feel free to head over to:

https://kbin.social/m/bsg

#battlestar #galatica #scifi

@emilymbender @mdyshel It looks like Emily M Bender is way ahead of us in identifying the dangers of #LLM s #galatica #GPT_3 #PaLM #Copilot #Codex #largelanguagemodels

If a department head at one of the richest companies to ever exist can unironically ask on social media
what harm can language have? , you can feel assured that you're not an imposter at whatever you're doing.

#ai #galatica #llm #impostersyndrome #meta #facebook

Looking forward to the coming episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 with @alex On deck: #Galatica of course, plus our new segment "What Fresh AI Hell?"

Next Wednesday, 11/23, 9:30am Pacific.

http://twitch.tv/katesilver538

#NLP #NLProc #AI #ML #AIhype #MAIHT3k

"Generates text that's grammatical and feels real": We sounded the alarm about this in the Stochastic Parrots paper. Ordinarily, I don't expect the average AI researcher to have read my papers, but that paper (thanks to Google) can hardly be missed.

So what gives?

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#StochasticParrots #Galatica #AIHype

Moving a thread from Twitter over here, which starts with my reacting to Michael Black's thread on #Galatica where he tests it and concludes it's dangerous, saying:

"Why dangerous? Galactica generates text that's grammatical and feels real. This text will slip into real scientific submissions. It will be realistic but wrong or biased. It will be hard to detect. It will influence how people think. (5/9)"

https://twitter.com/Michael_J_Black/status/1593133739538022400

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The word forms are not their meaning
Their meaning is not the world

Modeling the distribution of word forms is not the same as modeling (knowledge of) the world. And yet somehow this basic point is missed over and over and over...

#AI #ML #MathyMath #AIHype #NLP #NLProc #Galatica #LaMDA #GPT3 etc etc

Fundamental point that ~all people who see LLMs as "AI" seem to be missing:

The *only* knowledge that an LLM can truthfully be said to have is information about the distribution of word forms.

#AI #ML #MathyMath #AIHype #NLP #NLProc #Galatica #LaMDA #GPT3 etc etc