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Melanie Mitchell

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American scientist specializing in analogical reasoning, complex systems, genetic algorithms, and cellular automata. Davis Professor of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute.

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Melanie Mitchell @MelMitchell1 · Apr 5, 2023
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Thanks for this excellent thread. Rich Shiffrin and I recently wrote a short commentary on this topic as well: [link] Doing psychological testing on AI systems is a tricky business!

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People are testing large language models (LLMs) on their "cognitive" abilities - theory of mind, causality, syllogistic reasoning, etc. Many (most?) of these evaluations are deeply flawed. To evaluate LLMs effectively, we need some principles from ex
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Melanie Mitchell @MelMitchell1 · Apr 4, 2023
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Excellent thread (and blog post) on why AI "doomerism" is ill-conceived.

Article Apr, 2023
Is Elden Ring an existential risk to humanity?
by Julian Togelius
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Melanie Mitchell @MelMitchell1 · Apr 4, 2023
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Excellent thread (and blog post) on why AI "doomerism" is ill-conceived.

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Is Elden Ring an existential risk to humanity? That is the question I consider in my new blog post. Yes, it is a comment on the superintelligence/x-risk debate. Read the full thing here: togelius.blogspot.com/2023/04/is-elden-ring-existential-risk-to
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Melanie Mitchell @MelMitchell1 · Mar 30, 2023
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Dileep's thoughts on intelligence--natural and artificial--are always interesting and worth reading:

Article Mar 30, 2023
Welcome to the exciting dirigibles era of AI
by Dileep George
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Melanie Mitchell @MelMitchell1 · Mar 27, 2023
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Brilliant essay by my colleague, David Krakauer, on the question "Does GPT-4 Really Understand What We're Saying?"

Article Mar 27, 2023
Does GPT-4 Really Understand What We’re Saying?
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Melanie Mitchell @MelMitchell1 · Mar 14, 2023
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Also worth reading (and cited in the Noema article above), by Margaret Boden, written before the LLM revolution, but very relevant to how to think about today's AI:

Article 2016
The robots won’t take over because they couldn’t care less
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Melanie Mitchell @MelMitchell1 · Mar 14, 2023
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This is an insightful article about LLMs (by @Jake_Browning00 and @ylecun):

Article Mar 7, 2023
AI Chatbots Don’t Care About Your Social Norms | NOEMA
by Jacob Browning and Yann LeCun
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