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
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gZip and kNN beat deep learning approaches in out of distribution settings…
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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
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About to arrive in #sardinia. Even after ~15years, every time it feels like the first time
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And then a good afternoon of fun and bonding with the SDE department. I am so proud of all of them
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Celebrating an extraordinary first half of 2023 with the SDE department. So much to be proud of!
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Invisible Indirect Injection: A Puzzle for ChatGPT
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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.
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Only when plumbing will be automated, machine will actually have taken over the world
plumbing is now the Turing test that matters
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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.
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A good explanation why prompt injection in language models is a serious and tricky issue Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript
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Mandatory picture in front of the #CHI2023 sign
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On AI Alignment
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…