Mel Andrews
@bayesianboy
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I’m not like the other Bayesians. I’m different. Thinks about philosophy of science, AI ethics, machine learning, models, & metascience. postdoc @ Princeton.
Tower of Babel
Joined May 2019
My article on AI for science, in which I characterize a deviant notion of scientific objectivity rooted in the impossible ideal of theory-free inference, is available now open-access in Erkenntnis
link.springer.com
Erkenntnis - This paper contends with the notion that the methods of machine learning (ML) are unique among the tools of science in enabling a form of theory-free inductive inference. I challenge...
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so we have explicitly instructed them to express neutral attitudes towards technological progress.
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We know that persona-prompting leads LLMs to produce exaggerated caricatures of human subjects. Luckily, in this case, we have already anticipated that a stereotype about social scientists is that they are resistant to innovations in methodology
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There is a lot of fuss today over whether chatbots can replace human participants in social sciences research when the solution is obvious: ask chatbots to simulate the views of social scientists and survey them on attitudes towards chatbots as substitutes for human subjects.
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Absolutely, I agree. I’d also like to add a book to this tweet. Joy Buolamwini has done outstanding work on this topic. Highly recommended...
ML based facial recognition is not reliable in the wild; like many “AI” tools sold to law enforcement, it is thinly-veiled pseudoscience and will harm people by lending law enforcement both a felt sense of epistemic authority and legal impunity.
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See discussion of inference to stable identity features or unobservables from facial structure analysis:
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ML based facial recognition is not reliable in the wild; like many “AI” tools sold to law enforcement, it is thinly-veiled pseudoscience and will harm people by lending law enforcement both a felt sense of epistemic authority and legal impunity.
techpolicy.press
Jake Laperruque raises the alarm on ICE’s reckless use of facial recognition and its risks for wrongful detainment.
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it's genocide (@amnesty) it's genocide (@hrw) it's genocide (@btselem) it's genocide (@MSF) it's genocide (IAGS) it's genocide (@AlHaq) it's genocide (@UNHumanRights) it's genocide (@UN_HRC) it's genoicde (@pchrgaza) it's genocide (@AlMezanCenter) it's genocide (@WarOnWant) it's
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I also received this wonderful moleskine notebook and a bag to keep it in from the conference.
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I went all the way to Mexico to give a keynote and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
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This market is a soap bubble and we all know it. Claims of the capacity to obviate or automate human labor are absurd. We know this. But that won’t stop them from disrupting labor markets and, with them, human lives. https://t.co/MbKle3iZJT
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More frightening yet is the pervasive belief that a generation of American citizens was born lacking all intellectual curiosity, as though by some fluke, while our educational establishments continued to serve us well.
Ran across a hair-raising line by sixteenth-century writer John Foxe—“Not to understand what was done before we were born, is to live always as children”—and I think the complete lack of curiosity most people have towards the past is one reason everyone is now twelve.
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Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun https://t.co/LYgtlPqaAr
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Mel Andrews at UNAM, this is awesome :D
Thrilled to be at UNAM this week and to be keynoting a truly fantastic conference on the Philosophy of Computing.
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Thrilled also to have seen this cool bug which in its adult form is a good example of Batesian mimicry
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Thrilled to be at UNAM this week and to be keynoting a truly fantastic conference on the Philosophy of Computing.
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Seems important, so obviously there’s no media coverage.
Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir: Now that we have received the hostages, we must return to war and open the gates of hell upon Gaza.
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