A quick reminder that we should not conflate *confidence* with *expertise* -- one helps you to notice whether an output is correct while the other does not #AIES2026

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In 1992 Peter Ratcliffe received this rejection from Nature. Almost 30 years later he won the Nobel Prize for the same discovery.

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Algorithmic Realism: Data Science Practices to Promote Social Justice comes out today! I wrote this book with the mission to transform data science and AI into fields that genuinely work in service of the public interest. I hope that you’ll join me! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205570...

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I'm at #colm2026, Mon-Thurs Supporting two papers from @ai2.bsky.social days 🐟Olmo Hybrid, 7B hybrid model 🐠Cracks in the Foundation, long context recipes Hoping to have fun chats w folks about scaling LM data & evals, ☺️ unbiased on pretrain, posttrain, all the 🚂s

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This is a really fascinating research demo, from the lab of Mohit Iyyer at the University of Maryland: It predicts the likelihood that the ideas contained in a piece of text are AI-generated versus human-generated. A couple of examples in this thread.

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