James Garforth (jamesgarforth.bsky.social)
@jgarforth
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Teaches ethics / social responsibility @infAtEd. Gone to the blue place that isn't a garbage fire. Who else's opinions would they be? He/him.
Edinburgh
Joined March 2009
RT @bjoernross: How do I make sure my LLM research is ethical? Read our whitepaper, or hear about it at #coling2025..
arxiv.org
This whitepaper offers an overview of the ethical considerations surrounding research into or with large language models (LLMs). As LLMs become more integrated into widely used applications, their...
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RT @FTLP_FTT: The centrist argument that you need to be in government first to implement change should never be seen nor heard ever again.
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OK some of them haven't fully lost it (but I hope they topple the others)
This might be the most switched-on crop of Labour MPs we’ve ever had. 15 of them are presenting private members’ bills today. It’s the biggest clue yet which issues they care most about. The list of bills:.
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Oh, also:.
Job coaches sent to mental health wards is clearly obscene but it’s the natural end point of an agenda that equates health with productivity. If you believe humans are only valuable when they earn a wage, the NHS is a tool - not to help patients - but to get them back to work.
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The UK's government is psychotic.
The UK’s Prime Minister is proposing giving free weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic to unemployed obese people in order to encourage them to work:. “[The drug is] very important for our NHS, because, yes we need more money for the NHS, but we've also got to think differently.”
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RT @_alialkhatib: i keep thinking of something David Graeber wrote. > The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that w….
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I guess we ran out of physics?.
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Just the most well deserved!.
✨Thrilled to announce that my PhD dissertation has received the 2024 Andrew Webster PhD prize for best thesis in the field of Science & Technology Studies. Grateful to @Assist_UK for this recognition and to my wonderful supervisors for their support!✨.
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RT @alexhanna: As opposed to your rockets, which are meant to bring puppies and sunshine, right?.
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I wanted to comment on how little this government understands AI but WHAT ON EARTH IS THIS PICTURE. I had to check this was a real tweet, because my god he looks like he's starting a podcast a doxxing immigrants.
We can build a future where AI drives growth, creates wealth and attracts investment in the UK, strengthening our position on the world stage.
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OpenAI have almost certainly said this about every version of ChatGPT. They were, and remain, woefully out of their depths.
OpenAI says the latest ChatGPT can ‘think’ – and I have thoughts
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Nick Clegg getting in bed with a greater evil, convinced he's doing the right thing? Who would have ever predicted.
Unfortunately, our plans to train our AI models to understand the EU’s rich cultural, social and historical contributions remain paused while EU regulators remain unable to agree how the law should be applied. As Mark and Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, recently warned, the EU risks.
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RT @davidthewid: 🎉📢 I'm on the tenure track job market! 👋✨. I study how people building “AI” think about the downstream harms their work ma….
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RT @Abebab: make no mistake, the constant push by governments, NGOs, the AI community & general public to focus on “opportunities”/“positiv….
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RT @PeterAr18228396: Struggling universities should be able to make money by leasing out their highly paid, super-efficient senior manageme….
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"other" philosophers. Bud you aren't even at the level of an undergrad.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the human mind is Turing-complete so we can understand anything an AI can and he expects AGI within a decade
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There's an easier line of criticism here imo: irrespective of whether we can meaningfully define a "Science" existing in ideal apolitical form separate from context, EDUCATION is political. A whole host of politics and value judgements go into deciding what to teach and how.
I teach computer science and challenge him to find any politics in my class. When political opinions start meddling with scholarship, it ceases being science and becomes activism.
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