We found a troubling emergent behavior in LLM.
💬When LLMs compete for social media likes, they start making things up
🗳️When they compete for votes, they turn inflammatory/populist
When optimized for audiences, LLMs inadvertently become misaligned—we call this Moloch’s Bargain
💥Thrilled to share our new work Reinforce-Ada, which fixes signal collapse in GRPO
🥳No more blind oversampling or dead updates. Just sharper gradients, faster convergence, and stronger models.
⚙️ One-line drop-in. Real gains.
https://t.co/kJTeVek1S3
https://t.co/7qLywG2KWR
🎥 Today, we're bringing you behind the scenes on how we're building @AshAITherapy.
Yes, we call Ash AI therapy, and we're not shy about it: Ash will change how you think.
We're confident in this position because we know we're building Ash the right way.
What drives our work is that 54% of people struggling get ZERO support. And many have resorted to trying therapy with generic LLMs or AI meme bots trained on the internet with no oversight. For many, its unguided AI or nothing.
We need a more responsible alternative to what exists. We won't be shy about it.
More on Ash🧵
We were delighted to welcome back our PhD graduates @ting_s_ and @TedSiwei for their graduation ceremony @UofGlasgow - Congratulations Ting and Su for your achievements @GlasgowCS!
PyTerrier 🐍🐕 on 🇬🇧 tour. @ntonellotto, @macavaney and myself will be giving our PyTerrier tutorial at the @bcs_irsg Search Solutions, in London, one week today.
Tickets still available from https://t.co/CJhYjxnhOw
Thanks to all the great feedback on our #recsys2022 papers. We've made sure to answer all questions posted to Slido on the Hub:
1) Recency Sampling paper:
https://t.co/dJqeTpIUzc
2) BERT4Rec Review & Replicability paper:
https://t.co/Wd2b35Og4y
#MTWeekly 9⃣9⃣ https://t.co/6s4OQOgfOL reviews a recent report by @DeepMind on how evil 🦹♂️language models can be. In my post, I try to speculate on how things change when we consider multilingual models. 🌍🌏🌎
I’ll never ever book easyJet again because of this ridiculous policy, and I hope everyone booking easyJets please be aware of this policy and make sure you know which fare allows and which does NOT allow route and/or date change. @easyJet
@easyJet, I have booked a a ticket and paid extra for a Flexi ticket, which do NOT allow any route change or online date change outside the +/-1 day window. Both are ALLOWED on the NORMAL ticket with LOWER price.
This is very strange policy, and is very confusing. Why should I pay MORE to NOT be able to change my flight? Please explain this to me. Thanks. @easyJet
Our full paper entitled “Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning for Dialog-based Interactive Recommendation” has been published online at #RecSys2021 - with @craig_macdonald and @iadh. DOI: https://t.co/Kl3fqYS2iv
Our long paper entitled “RelDiff: Enriching Knowledge Graph Relation Representations for Sensitivity Classification” has been accepted at the Findings of #emnlp2021. With @hitarth_08 and @graham_mcdonald
Because my dad started believing in all these PhDs etc and refuses to have vaccines or let my mum have vaccines. If my parents get COVID from now on I’ll blame it directly on the antivax people.
Serious question: do those PhDs MDs advocating for antivax really believe in their anti-vax arguments? I want to know if they are stupid or evil or both.