Gods and Robots In this episode of the podcast we shake things up! Neil is on the guest side of the table with his partner Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner to discuss their upcoming project Gods and Robots. Katherine is joined on the host side by friend of the show professor Michael Littman. See... See More Episodes arXiv Whitepapers When a language model is optimized for reasoning, does it still show embers of autoregression? An analysis of OpenAI o1 In "Embers of Autoregression" (McCoy et al., 2023), we showed that several large language models (LLMs) have some important limitations that are attributable to their origins in next-word prediction. Here we investigate whether these issues persist with o1, a new system from OpenAI that differs from... Confident Teacher, Confident Student? A Novel User Study Design for Investigating the Didactic Potential of Explanations and their Impact on Uncertainty Evaluating the quality of explanations in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is to this day a challenging problem, with ongoing debate in the research community. While some advocate for establishing standardized offline metrics, others emphasize the importance of human-in-the-loop (HIL)... Learning Recourse Costs from Pairwise Feature Comparisons This paper presents a novel technique for incorporating user input when learning and inferring user preferences. When trying to provide users of black-box machine learning models with actionable recourse, we often wish to incorporate their personal preferences about the ease of modifying each... More featured content News Articles Something felt ‘off’ – how AI messed with our human research, and what we learned Face recognition technology follows a long analog history of surveillance and control based on identifying physical features Stay in the loop. Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly update on the latest podcast, news, events, and jobs postings. E-mail Leave this field blank Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood Artificial intelligence needs to be trained on culturally diverse datasets to avoid bias AI in the developing world: how ‘tiny machine learning’ can have a big impact Why AI can’t replace air traffic controllers Taylor Swift deepfakes: new technologies have long been weaponised against women. The solution involves us all Study: Smart devices’ ambient light sensors pose imaging privacy risk AI companies are merging or collaborating to even out the gap in access to vital datasets Navigating algorithmic bias amid rapid AI development in Southeast Asia More news