The Critical Engineer
An interesting manifesto from The Critical Engineering Working Group . I tried to substitute The Critical Engineer with The Designer, and it reads even more spot-on
gZip and kNN beat deep learning approaches in out of distribution settings…
But last week I thought about the death of social networks as a hardware and energy problem: You’re storing huge amounts of media on these huge server stacks costing massive overhead on the off-chance that 0.00001% of it goes viral and propels a bunch of ads into a couple of million people’s eyes. The input/output formula just doesn’t work. The dream of converting eyeballs into $$$ has always been promissory; that one day someone would crack the perfect formula and balance the scales and so the investment had, until recently, kept flowing
About to arrive in #sardinia. Even after ~15years, every time it feels like the first time
And then a good afternoon of fun and bonding with the SDE department. I am so proud of all of them
Celebrating an extraordinary first half of 2023 with the SDE department. So much to be proud of!
Invisible Indirect Injection: A Puzzle for ChatGPT
And the 23rd edition of the ICWE conference officially starts. A lovely scientific community that I first joined in 2006. And this year hosted in the charming Spanish city of Alicante.
An interesting manifesto from The Critical Engineering Working Group . I tried to substitute The Critical Engineer with The Designer, and it reads even more spot-on
Only when plumbing will be automated, machine will actually have taken over the world
plumbing is now the Turing test that matters
On the existential risks of AI
We should be wary of Prometheans who want to both profit from bringing the people fire, and be trusted as the firefighters.
A good explanation why prompt injection in language models is a serious and tricky issue Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript
Mandatory picture in front of the #CHI2023 sign
If social systems are inherently unpredictable because of complexity (and they often are), AI is gonna have a hell of a time trying to align to that…