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Gary Smith tells an interesting story. 1. Funny output from OpenAI’s GPT-3 A few months ago, Smith wrote an AI-skeptical article where he threw some sentences at the GPT-3, a text processor from Open AI. As wikipedia puts it: Generative … Read more
Joe Hilgard writes: Some years ago, you blogged about a research article by Hasan and colleagues (2013). I had tried to direct your attention to the narrowness of the error bars, which I found suspicious. What I was really trying … Read more
Gary Smith writes: In 1970, Marvin Minsky, recipient of the Turing Award (“the Nobel Prize of Computing”), predicted that within “three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.” Fifty-two years … Read more
About 80 people pointed me to this post by Uri Simonsohn, Joe Simmons, and Leif Nelson about a 2012 article, “Signing at the beginning makes ethics salient and decreases dishonest self-reports in comparison to signing at the end.” Apparently some … Read more
Economist Gary Smith sends along this post with the above title and the subtitle, “Market prices are not invariably equal to intrinsic values.” Here’s Smith: For a while, there was a popular belief among finance professors that the stock market … Read more
Static WordPress hosting on CloudFlare will give you the fastest possible page load speed for your site – and it’s completely free! Can I Really Host WordPress on CloudFlare? Yes and no. If you have a simple WordPress site you … Read more
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Shane Frederick points us to this article from 1999, “Stereotype susceptibility: Identity salience and shifts in quantitative performance,” about which he writes: This is one of the worst papers ever published in Psych Science (which is a big claim, I … Read more
Gary Smith points us to this news article: Geoffrey Hinton is a legendary computer scientist . . . Naturally, people paid attention when Hinton declared in 2016, “We should stop training radiologists now, it’s just completely obvious within five years … Read more
