Katherine Bailey

SW Eng @Shopify. I no longer work in AI because I'm so over it. Diver, amateur classical musician, lover of languages.

[Katherine Bailey @katherinebailey]

Is there a support group for people who have a more cynical view of LLMs than all of their coworkers? Asking for a friend.

[Katherine Bailey @katherinebailey]

My optimistic take on where we’re at right now: this is the pre-dawn of the post-bullshit age.

[Katherine Bailey @katherinebailey]

An idiot wind is blowing

[Katherine Bailey @katherinebailey]

@togelius @sina_lana @mitpress If you haven’t read Frans de Waal’s Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are, that would be a good place to start.

[Katherine Bailey @katherinebailey]

@davidchalmers42 What would motivate a pure thinker to think anything at all?

[Akash Mahajan @akashmjn]

It just occurred to me that there's been a big plot twist:

2016:
Huggingface - we're going to make a chatbot
OpenAI - we're going to do open AI

2022:
Huggingface - we're making AI open
OpenAI - we made a chatbot

... 😅

[Katherine Bailey @katherinebailey]

@davidchalmers42 The ability to enjoy doing nothing.

[Katherine Bailey @katherinebailey]

Given that most AI researchers don’t even try to present a philosophically sound definition of intelligence, this is a laughably far-fetched claim.

[Richard Sutton @RichardSSutton]

The case for ambition in artificial intelligence research:

Within your lifetime, AI researchers will understand the principles of intelligence—what it is and how it works—well enough to create beings of far greater intelligence than current humans.

[Katherine Bailey @katherinebailey]

Shockingly flawed reasoning about the relationship between evolutionary constraints and intelligence (it is literally the opposite of what’s expressed here). The field of AI is becoming more of a joke every day.

[Dileep George @dileeplearning]

@togelius A system that can learn, generalize, and reason like humans by building models of the world. It will be more general and more powerful than humans because arbitrary evolutionary constraints are removed, but still limited because it’s not some mythical “universal intelligence”.

[Katherine Bailey @katherinebailey]

@togelius AGI is an incoherent idea based on the common fallacy that intelligence is an engineering problem rather than the result of selection pressures in specific evolutionary environments, the reproduction of which is the only thing that can produce the corresponding intelligence.

[Katherine Bailey @katherinebailey]

@Kobotic Foucault

[Katherine Bailey @katherinebailey]

“There are typically around 1,000 pieces of sound in a cumulonimbus cloud.” GPT3 wisdom at its finest. https://t.co/vdxs8bQQ3e

[Katherine Bailey @katherinebailey]

@michalwols Oh wow, thankfully I haven’t had any of those yet! Just the odd person in an email claiming to have left me a voicemail when they don’t even have my number

[Katherine Bailey @katherinebailey]

I get tons of these too and I’m just a Staff Software Developer. They sure are desperate to sell all those ML solutions.

[Katherine Bailey @katherinebailey]

@webchick @rtanglao @stevekrueger Let’s lock in Thurs afternoon anyway! For me that will be the least hectic time since I won’t be rushing back for more meetings 🙂

[Katherine Bailey @katherinebailey]

Just booked a flight to Vancouver for a team get together next month - it'll be my first time back in 8 years! Might have to make a quick trip out to Bowen Island - of all the places we've lived, nothing has really come close to that paradise.

[Katherine Bailey @katherinebailey]

@webchick @rtanglao @stevekrueger Are you kidding?! Angie, I would absolutely love to see you and catch up - let’s make sure it happens!

[Katherine Bailey @katherinebailey]

@stevekrueger Yep, Ryan shared that in our team channel, that’s awesome 😄

[Katherine Bailey @katherinebailey]

@stevekrueger March 7-11