Melanie Mitchell
6,408 posts
Melanie Mitchell
@MelMitchell1
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Mostly posting on bsky.app (at-melaniemitchell). More thoughts at aiguide.substack.com.
Replying to @ChrisMurphyCTSenator, I'm an AI researcher. Your description of ChatGPT is dangerously misinformed. Every sentence is incorrect. I hope you will learn more about how this system actually works, how it was trained, and what it's limitations are.
- I didn't sign "the letter". Current AI poses lots of risks, but describing these systems as "ever more powerful digital minds" that no one can control is likely to make the problem even worse. What's needed: more transparency and better public discourse.
- Replying to @elizlarakiInsane. Also, it thinks women's shirts shouldn't have pockets.
- Current chatbots can pass the Turing Test, right? A lot of people have claimed this, but Cameron Jones (@camrobjones) and Benjamin Bergen of UCSD actually tested the claim! (Spoiler: The answer is "no, they don't pass.")
- Replying to @bestofdyingtwitI hope Satya responds with a poop emoji
- Very impressive---indeed, awe-inspiring---AI demos this last week, e.g., from OpenAI (image generation) and Google (text generation). These demos seem to convince many people that current AI is getting closer and closer to human-level intelligence. 🧵 (1/8)
- New paper from my group: "Comparing Humans, GPT-4, and GPT-4V On Abstraction and Reasoning Tasks". 🧵 (1/9)
- Rather than asking AI researchers how soon machines will become "smarter than people", perhaps we should be asking cognitive scientists, who actually know something about human intelligence?
- How does modern AI work, what is its history, and how does it compare with human intelligence? My book gives an in-depth, accessible guide for lay people & experts alike. Coming in 2023: new chapters on transformers, generative AI, and AI "alignment".
- Wrenching news: Dan Dennett has died. He's been a great friend and incredible inspiration for me throughout my career. I will miss him enormously.
