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AI journalism has a hype problem. To move past the cycle of reacting to each story, @sayashk and I analyzed over 50 pieces from 5 prominent...

Good stuff!  (See my five-step plan for improvising .)

Pay attention to audience interaction at 7:07 to the end.

We collect human preference annotations for news summaries generated by current SOTA and zero-shot GPT-3 models. For multiple settings (gene...

Jeffrey Funk - Gary N. Smith, No, AI probably won’t revolutionize drug development , Salon , September 24. The opening paragraphs: D...

The NYTimes has another article that feeds my interest in changing attitudes toward work: Lisa Rabasa Roepe, Millennials Want to Retire at...

"We’ve torn down the old gods and replaced them with an idolatry of innovators. And this religion is most deeply embedded in the cultur...

Two weeks ago I published another essay at 3 Quarks Daily : On the Cult of AI Doom It’s a decent essay, in particular I like the c...

Bump: from June 2017. This sort of thing is on my mind these days. * * * * *   Kai-Fu Lee has an important op-ed in the NYTimes , "The...