ed fernandez

That fear at ML conferences

When ChatGPT Told Me to Stop & The 2nd Law of Robotics linkedin.com/pulse/when-cha…

The Curse of Information Overload: A Quest for Truth linkedin.com/pulse/curse-in…

A study of the spilling coffee phenomenon (paper) fermatslibrary.com/s/a-study-on-t…

wrote this back in 2015, I was in USA, almost a decade ago. CNBC picked it up and it was vehemently controversial Today, Apple Visión Pro is here to stay, and it is already redefining the smartphone category, a self-fulfilling profecy linkedin.com/posts/ed-ferna…

3/3 Hence humans remain in far more danger from other humans than they are from the machines, and it is this that I think any regulation would be best serviced to target. h/t Richard Windsor

2/3 This creates a convincing illusion of sentience which leads people to anthropomorphise these systems which in turn is what I think makes them much more capable of being used by bad actors.

1/3 On the recent AI regulation in EU: 'I continue to think that the machines are as dumb as ever, but their size and complexity have greatly enhanced their linguistic skills even if they are simply calculating the probability of words occurring next to each other.

Noise kills thinking

What are the odds... Odds = prob happening / prob not happening

Who knew, formal bayesian thinking is forbidden in court? A rigorous approach to 'given X evidence this is the not-guilty probability' is banned?

The FDA requests two independent clinical trials for new drugs each with a P value <0.05, so, the chance of approving a new drug with no benefit at all is 1/400

Null hypothesis : assumption you make till you gather sufficient evidence of the contrary e.g: "politicians only seek power"

Just realized I suffer from apophenia

There will be an LLM behind every input box online, hence, there will be an LLM behind every human-machine interface, eventually

True

New favorite word : Epistemic knowledge or beliefs based on evidence, reasoning, and understanding, vs subjective or speculative

Jobs of a near future: Killswitch engineer, key skill patience and a steady hand to turn a handswitch down at the right timing

There's no cloud, it's just somebody else's computer. Seen on a T-shirt

Future jobs: Adversarial Testing Officer

On LLMs, summarized h/t @xamat Andrej Karpathy lnkd.in/daUDTYjr