Notices by Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social), page 8

Now on PeerTube!

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 19 - The Murky Climate and Environmental Impact of Large Language Models

https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/qpKuiNLTuHHMnvWGjnA2D8

... in which Dr. Sasha Luccioni and Dr. Emma Strubell talk with me and @alex about importance and lack of transparency regarding the environmental impact of "AI" models.

Thx to Christie Taylor for production!

Ep 18 now up in podcast form! A nostalgic return to taking apart another #AIHype artifact from Agüera y Arcas w/ @alex :)

Thx to Christie Taylor for production.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/13867500-episode-18-rumors-of-artificial-general-intelligence-have-been-greatly-exaggerated

Looking for more Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000? Tune in live on Monday Oct 30 when Sasha Luccioni and Emma Strubell join @alex and me to take on hype around AI and the environment!

Noon Pacific, Monday Oct 30, here:

https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

#MAIHT3k

How can we support a pathway to peace if any speech in support of Palestinians is demonized as pro-terror? I've signed this letter, with gratitude to its drafters & organizers.
https://www.answercoalition.org/open_letter_harvard_palestine

(My name isn't showing up yet, but I am confident that it will, when the page is updated!) 1/

@ccshan Thanks That's close but doesn't seem to address LLMs/ChatGPT

@ep_jhu Thanks!

Sigh, no. LLMs are not "approaching" universal Turing machines. They are specific programs run on computers which *are* universal Turing machines.

https://www.ft.com/content/5c41202b-6034-4cac-81a8-7968e9fa603a

And YES policymaking deserves and requires deep, thoughtful work by experts --- but this should be diverse communities of experts and not single "great men".

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast Episode 17 is up!

Back to School with AI Hype in Education
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/13704618-episode-17-back-to-school-with-ai-hype-in-education

In which Haley Lepp joins me and @alex to school those who would have us believe more profit for tech cos is just what our education system needs.

Thanks to Christie Taylor for production!

@johnlaudun Not really looking for lay literature, but rather academic studies of lay understanding.

Q for #AcademicFedi, #HCI, #lazyweb: What has been published (if anything, yet) about how lay people understand what ChatGPT is and how it works?

On 9/28, I had the opportunity to speak at a virtual roundtable convened by Congressman Bobby Scott on “AI in the Workplace: New Crisis or Longstanding Challenge?”. The roundtable was a closed meeting, but sharing our opening remarks is allowed. Mine are here:

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/opening-remarks-on-ai-in-the-workplace-new-crisis-or-longstanding-challenge-eb81d1bee9f

@UlrichJunker Thank you!

@DAIR Oohh -- nice! Just downloaded.

@MisuseCase

As I said in the post you are directly responding to: "It was obvious from the outset that predictive policing was a scam (not to mention a vehicle for accelerating overpolicing)"

This site remains 'splainy AF.

It was obvious from the outset that predictive policing was a scam (not to mention a vehicle for accelerating overpolicing), but it's really valuable to have this careful reporting of just bad it is:

https://themarkup.org/prediction-bias/2023/10/02/predictive-policing-software-terrible-at-predicting-crimes

@Julia You make really good points --- and we need a better metaphor than the apocryphal "tragedy of the commons". On its eugenicist origins, see:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Ep 14 in which Prof. Lucy Suchman brings amazing context to the discussion of Kissinger, Schmidt & Huttenlocher's book and op-ed.

w/@alex and production by Christie Taylor

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/13570555-episode-14-henry-kissinger-machines-of-war-and-the-age-of-military-ai-hype-feat-lucy-suchman-july-21-2023

On what scholarship could & should be (and how AI/ML arXiv culture works against that):

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/scholarship-should-be-open-inclusive-and-slow-15ab6ce1d74c

Another wonderful episode of @techwontsaveus !

I was particularly struck by how much Weizenbaum's work presages the issues we are confronting today and the part towards the end about how judgment requires values which require lived experience.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-criticism-has-a-decades-long-history-w-ben-tarnoff/id1507621076?i=1000625520365

Have you ever wanted to catch Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live? Already done so and want more?

Our next live stream will be Monday August 28, at noon Pacific, when @roxanadaneshjou will join @alex and I to dissect AI hype in medicine.

https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute