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Simon McCallum

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Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington and NTNU in Norway. Neurodivergent.

Mosgiel, Dunedin
Joined February 2009
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Simon McCallum
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Given the importance of FPV drones in modern warfare should FPV flying competitions become like archery competitions in England during the 15th Century.
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Simon McCallum
1 year
Working on AI and multi-choice confidence. LLMs are significantly more confident than their percentage accuracy. AI is certainly a Dunning Kruger confident fool.
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Simon McCallum
2 years
PBRF was a flawed system from the beginning. It forced Universities to prioritise research over teaching quality. The review announced by Jan Tinetti last year is now a full advisory group, cancelling the 2026 PBRF round.
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Simon McCallum
3 years
Woot.
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@MrsMacNZ @cjsbishop Is ‘unelected MP’ an oxymoron?
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Simon McCallum
3 years
GPT 4 is Smarter than You Think: Introducing SmartGPT https://t.co/RQmPcX1Mv2 via @YouTube Prompt engineering and improvements
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Simon McCallum
3 years
Added a quick video of the presentation I gave at #HVHS last week about #ChatGPT. Things are moving so quickly but it is worth sharing what we are doing https://t.co/h5gyUzOp1Z via @YouTube
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Simon McCallum
3 years
Talking about my campaign for Southland. Lovely to spend time chatting with Helen Clark, and a great group of people from the Electorate.
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Simon McCallum
3 years
Heading to Queenstown next week for a Labour Party event: An evening with Helen Clark. Looking forward to meeting people and an evening of political discussion.
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An evening of discussion, questions, and answers from one of the most significant people in New Zealand politics.
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Simon McCallum
3 years
My piece on Q&A https://t.co/XwIg4lGsyh Mostly got the point across. Though it's not an "AI task force" it's a forum for discussion.
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Ethan Mollick
3 years
🤯🤯Well this is something else. GPT-4 passes basically every exam. And doesn't just pass... The Bar Exam: 90% LSAT: 88% GRE Quantitative: 80%, Verbal: 99% Every AP, the SAT...
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Nathan Labenz
3 years
OpenAI's leaked Foundry pricing says a lot – if you know how to read it – about GPT4, The Great Implementation, a move from Generative to Productive AI, OpenAI's safety & growth strategies, and the future of work. Another AI-obsessive megathread on what to expect in 2023 🧵
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Simon McCallum
3 years
I just asked #BingChat to estimate the likelihood of each sentence in a previous answer being correct by searching the content. It was able to identify the error and point to sources which disagreed with the output. This type accurate confidence needs to be automated.
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Simon McCallum
3 years
Do the copyright and IP issues change for an AI which is trained to produce art by presenting the output to a modelled human observer. The AI artist has never seen any human art, merely presented it's pictures to a separate AI trained to mimic what humans like?
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Simon McCallum
3 years
Should be a good evening coming up next month.
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Simon McCallum
3 years
Given GTPZero cannot be used as evidence against a student, Auckland's plans to limit the use of ChatGPT will fail. "Auckland University tells staff to use GPTZero to detect chatbot cheats"
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The university says an "arms race" is developing between AI that can be used to cheat and programs designed to detect them.
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Simon McCallum
3 years
The gambler's fallacy resulting in bad planning for the Esk valley and potentially contributed to deaths. "The 2018 was a one-in-100-year event, Munro said, “meaning it was unlikely … to reoccur for a long time”.
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Those who survived Cyclone Gabrielle are now asking why they weren’t evacuated from an area already known for its devastating flash floods.
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Rob Lennon 🗯 | AI Whisperer
3 years
Everyone’s using ChatGPT. But almost everyone's STUCK in beginner mode. 10 techniques to get massively ahead with AI: (cut-and-paste these prompts👇)
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Simon McCallum
3 years
I've been listening to a lot of talk about ChapGPT. The most annoying part is the large number of commentators who do not understand Neural Networks, who then make strong claims about what it can and can not do. This is going to be a challenge for writing policy. #ChatGPT
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