Novruz Aliyev

PhD - Financial law & DLT (blockchain) / Capital Markets Lawyer

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨[AI PAPER]: "Generative AI Can Harm Learning" by @hamsabastani, @obastanim, @Alpsungu, @HaosenGe, Özge Kabakcı & Rei Mariman is a must-read for everyone interested in AI. Quotes:

"(...) a key question that remains is how generative AI affects how humans learn novel skills, both in educational settings and through the course of performing their jobs. This process of skill acquisition is referred to as human capital development and is critical for safeguarding productivity in the long term. When technology automates a task, humans can miss out on valuable experience performing that task. As a consequence, such a technology may induce a tradeoff where they improve performance on average but introduce new failure cases due to reduced human skill. For example, overreliance on autopilot led the Federal Aviation Administration to recommend that pilots minimize their use of this technology. Their pre-cautionary guidance ensures that pilots have the necessary skills to maintain safety in situations where autopilot fails to function correctly." (pages 2-3)

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"Our main results are two-fold. First, students in the GPT Tutor (resp., GPT Base) arm perform 127% (resp., 48%) better on the practice problems compared to students in the control arm. This finding is consistent with prior work on the benefits of ChatGPT in improving human abilities on a variety of tasks. Second, on the exam, students in the GPT Base arm perform statistically significantly worse than students in the control arm by 17%; this negative effect is essentially eradicated in the GPT Tutor arm, though we still do not observe a positive effect. These results suggest that while access to generative AI can improve performance, it can substantially inhibit learning. Our results have significant implications for tools based on generative AI—while such tools have the potential to improve human performance, they must be deployed with appropriate guardrails when learning is important." (page 4)

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"In some ways, ChatGPT is not the first technology to exhibit this tradeoff—for instance, typing diminishes the need for handwriting, and calculators diminish the need for arithmetic, etc. However, we believe ChatGPT differs from prior technologies in two significant ways. First, the capabilities of ChatGPT are substantially broader and more intellectual compared to prior examples; for instance, our experiments focus on a broad variety of mathematical topics, which encompass fundamental skills required by a wide range of knowledge-intensive professions. Second, unlike many prior technologies, ChatGPT is highly unreliable and often provides incorrect responses. Our results suggest that students are either unable to detect these failures or unwilling to spend the effort needed to check correctness. While GPT Tutor appears to largely mitigate these negative effects, substantial work is required to enable generative AI to positively enhance rather than diminish education." (page 16)

➡️ Read the full paper below.

➡️ I recently discussed the topic in my newsletter in the context of Google's statement that its AI assistant will do the online "legwork" for us. When AI does the intellectual and creative "legwork," what remains for us? What will happen to our brains? Is it productive from a human perspective? (link to my newsletter article below).

➡️ This is an extremely important topic, especially given the accelerated pace of AI development and adoption, when companies from every industry are pressured to add some sort of AI-based functionality to longstanding products and services.

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[Novruz Aliyev @AlievNovruz]

Rire ou pleurer...

J'aurais jamais imaginé que cela me rappellerait des vécus - nos sociétés se trouvent dans un état pathologique inquiétant, indifféremment du niveau de diplôme d'ailleurs...

Avec l'espoir des jours meilleurs, malgré tout 🤞

[Marc Gral @MarcGral]

Ça n’a pas pris une ride.
C’est même encore plus drôle en ce moment, après la série de révélations.

[Karim Amellal @karimamellal]

Ambassadeur et binational, je suis fier et honoré de servir la 🇨🇵 tout en étant fier de mes origines 🇩🇿(et berrichonnes🤩)

Cela n'aurait pas été possible sous un pouvoir d'extrême droite.

La diversité est une richesse collective. Ni une honte ni un fardeau.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

The Economist: "China has become a scientific superpower"

Rare for me - maybe even unprecedented - to praise the Economist but this might be the seminal article on the current status of China's scientific might.

Let's take a look 🧵
https://t.co/LufhWQGJBh

[Tiphaine Rivière @TiphaineRiv]

Dans "Histoire d'un allemand", Sébastien Haffner décrit entre autres Brüning, le chancelier "centriste" qui a permis l'accession d'Hitler au pouvoir. J'ai dessiné en 4 planches ce passage (1/4): @NicolasFramont @ThomasCadene

[Novruz Aliyev @AlievNovruz]

Interessant

[Michel Bauwens @mbauwens]

New book: Technology Against Progress

"Daron Acemoglu, an economist at MIT, is so prolific and respected that he's long been viewed as a leading candidate for the Nobel prize in economics. He used to believe in the conventional wisdom, that technology is always a force for economic good. But now, with his longtime collaborator Simon Johnson, Acemoglu has written a 546-page treatise that demolishes the Church of Technology, demonstrating how innovation often winds up being harmful to society. In their book "Power and Progress," Acemoglu and Johnson showcase a series of major inventions over the course of the past 1,000 years that, contrary to what we've been told, did nothing to improve, and sometimes even worsened, the lives of most people."

https://t.co/bIQ8H7h2oj?

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

How to win a scholarship for your Master's/PhD:

[Jack Chong @jackchong_jc]

DeFi will eat TradFi. The key is via Real World Assets (RWA).

But the industry lacks a rigorous case....

So we wrote a 70-page primer to walk through our idea maze 🔍

Here's a sketch of the report so that you can skip to the section you like 🧵

[gabriel shapiro @lex_node]

this point from @ZeMariaMacedo is exactly why the CFTC position is wrong

a DAO is not a contract party entering into a leveraged retail commodities tx with a user of a smart contract system

the smart contract itself plays the functional role of counterparty, without those risks

[Samantha Marin @samanthajmarin]

Vitalik argues that DAOs can learn more from state than corporate governance methods

So, which DAOs are already opening up the political science textbooks? I have a few in mind…

Thanks to the team at @DAOResearchCo for support and editing!

https://t.co/YoCKU2336b

[Novruz Aliyev @AlievNovruz]

@DSBatten actually, the PoW or PoS are both irrelevant for classification purposes...

[Novruz Aliyev @AlievNovruz]

@Azaze2lo these comments were for qardas.

p.s. it's not funny (more than 200 deaths)...

[Novruz Aliyev @AlievNovruz]

@Azaze2lo That is an important 'detail'... no government in AZ never claimed the territory...what happens now is a (heavy) means of pressure on ARM to withdraw its army from AZ..in other words withdraw your army, if not AZ can do the same on your territory..sad, but it's the reality...

[Novruz Aliyev @AlievNovruz]

@FarhadGarashov @Azaze2lo Qardas, sadece Az-lilarin Zengezura qayitmasiyla (statiniz), Zengezurun AZ-a qayitmasi eyni şey değil... O gun olsun hami oz evine esiyine qayitsin, serhedleri qarsiliqli delimitasiya eliyey keçek basqa ise...besdi şehid verdik, yoo ?! her 2 milleti esir eliyibler Ruslar esasen..

[Novruz Aliyev @AlievNovruz]

Ce régime a créé tellement de mal qui n'a plus depuis longtemps rien avoir le peuple iranien.

[Novruz Aliyev @AlievNovruz]

Le paranoïa inutile (la grande maj., si ce n'est la quasi-totalité AZ reconnait l'intégr. territoriale ARM), il doit subtilement coopérer avec Bakou pour purger l'armée des pions de la Russie et les sortir du HK ...sachant que la purge doit continuer côté AZ aussi...#CaucaseLibre

[Maxime Gauin 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @MaximeGauin]

Il a compris, en novembre 2020, où menait ce nationalisme auquel il ne s’était rallié que sur le tard. Le drame, c’est qu’il n’a jamais eu le cran de purger l’armée, de crainte d’être renversé (ça se tient) ou que l’#Azerbaïdjan en profite (paranoïa).

https://t.co/JiSyrrUEIQ

[Novruz Aliyev @AlievNovruz]

POW or POS, are both irrelevant for legal classification purposes...

[grubles @notgrubles]

Ethereum traded off security to become a security. 😂

[Novruz Aliyev @AlievNovruz]

j'avais une réserve sur Bitcoin (non environmentale), mais elle est en train d'être levée, grâce aux, curieusement, solutions avancées pour mieux comprendre et résoudre la question environnementale de Bitcoin..c'est fou la tournure que ça prend et les perspectives qui s'ouvrent..

[Daniel Batten @DSBatten]

@VitalikButerin @zackvoell @drakefjustin The merge will forever remove Etherem's ability to use methane as a power source, and participate alongside Bitcoin in mitigating the methane gas that UNEP says is "our strongest lever to reduce climate change"