Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)Apr 14, 2023

Okay, so are these 8 pages of motivated reasoning formatted like they've been submitted to Science or to Nature?

https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-2724922/v1_covered.pdf?c=1680083818

Look, you can't count the carbon emissions that people have for (check notes) existing as the "carbon cost" of the work that they do.

I can't believe this needs to be said, but: LLMs are *optional*. Humans are not.

Show threadFabian TranschelApr 14, 2023

@emilymbender Oh wow.

That's about the same level of reality bending as AlphaGo's "beating humans at Go, we only need 20 MWs (or so) for training, but then after it's cheaper than the human's 20W..."

Show threadMax Little
@ftranschel @emilymbender And AlphaGo isn't even better than humans: https://goattack.far.ai/
Adversarial policies in Go

Examples and analysis of superhuman Go AI systems beaten by adversarial attacks

Apr 14, 2023 at 3:40pmWeb