Bill Howe

Associate Prof at the UW Information School. AI Responsibility / Public Interest Technology / Databases. (he/him)

[Bill Howe @billghowe]

@nntaleb Secrets are news you tell one person at a time

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@pmddomingos @geoffreyhinton Predictably ad hominem. That a politically motivated disemboweling of world-leading research funding apparatus might raise questions of scientific integrity is not an “embarrassing” position to take. But of course you know that.

[Bingbing Wen @bingbingwen1]

🚨Curious how LLMs deal with uncertainty? In our new #EMNLP2024 Findings paper, we dive deep into their ability to abstain from answering when given insufficient or incorrect context in science questions 💡https://t.co/2pAWkSwHN7
Joint work w/ @billghowe @lucyluwang @uw_ischool

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@AdamKuhr @PeteButtigieg Another day another reason @petebuttigeg for president

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@Eric_Erins This isn’t the response tho?

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@GreatDismal evil yoga

[Bill Howe @billghowe]

@rachelmetz Agree, but I also fear the idea that because a paper *is* peer reviewed it earns free credibility. There exists unintentional gatekeeping, especially in contentious domains. Arxiv has been a positive. (Overlay journals are one underused tool in the toolbox.)

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@ylecun @scienceisstrat1 @altcap @Jason @chamath @DavidSacks It’s true that, like reality labs, none of those agencies generate direct revenue. But having trouble seeing how this comparison makes a favorable case for metaverse. It was a profit-motivated bad idea, sans any hope of profit.

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@ylecun Querying gridded data <BLANK> <BLANK>

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@Shahules786 @ylecun Compare likelihood of surviving the day

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@ylecun C’mon Yann. There are 100M active daily users of the plane in your analogy, and countless other mini-planes of the same design deployed in all kinds of contexts. For five years everyone has raised VC and their stock price by claiming to use a plane somewhere in their system.

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@ylecun While simultaneously demonstrating the sexual objectification bias, to the extent that women can literally be rendered as a collection of body parts. Work conceived and led by @wolferobert3 and @aylin_cim with some support from myself and @yanyiwei_44 https://t.co/QU7vx5ot7p

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@arokem @uwresponsibleai ChatGPT’s answer sounds about right; we made it up. We didn’t want talking heads for a topic so pervasive in public discourse.

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@stephmui @triketora almost?

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@nathaliejacoby1 of denial

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@ylecun Sand isn’t as plentiful as it seems. https://t.co/uXFhi9ATqr.

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@amyjko And now you can compare the traffic before and after the change to see which maximizes engagement? Wait, never mind.

[Bill Howe @billghowe]

@domoritz @random_walker @mmitchell_ai Well it’s not strict. The main thing is that the question of “does it actually work” tends to be almost an afterthought in CS, and I want to see that story before I slog through 6 pages of pedantry. Related: I try to understand figures first, reading just enough to do so.

[MMitchell @mmitchell_ai]

This is a major milestone for US AI Ethics law. Brings in groundwork for:
- Safety
- Equity
- Data Rights
- Transparency
- Consent
Yay for @SureshVenkat46 and @kdphd 's work I know must underlie this! https://t.co/M0srKaAUM5
Thanks for the reporting @Melissahei