Backstory - on December 1st I wrote a thread on Twitter responding to Timnit Gebru’s article in WIRED which criticized EA-funded AI safety work. Someone recommended I turn it into a blog post. It’s pretty late now, but this is the result. It’s much more thorough and balanced than the original thread.
Thank you for this insightful and balanced view of the landscape! The links included throughout are very useful (convenient to refer to this piece in the future).
Your assessment is quite accurate. I think the overhype of LLMs and other current AI/ML frameworks has contributed to this tension. We still cannot resolve the simpler and fundamental ML issues like the ones you pointed out in your insightful piece on AI & medicine. Michael Jordan's essay provides another compelling evidence of this hype:
Thank you for this insightful and balanced view of the landscape! The links included throughout are very useful (convenient to refer to this piece in the future).
Your assessment is quite accurate. I think the overhype of LLMs and other current AI/ML frameworks has contributed to this tension. We still cannot resolve the simpler and fundamental ML issues like the ones you pointed out in your insightful piece on AI & medicine. Michael Jordan's essay provides another compelling evidence of this hype:
https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet-5e1d5812e1e7