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 On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models Foundation models are powerful technologies: how they are released publicly directly shapes their societal impact. In this position paper, we focus on open foundation models, defined here as those with broadly available model weights (e.g. Llama 2, Stable Diffusion XL). We identify five distinctive... When Benchmarks are Targets: Revealing the Sensitivity of Large Language Model Leaderboards Large Language Model (LLM) leaderboards based on benchmark rankings are regularly used to guide practitioners in model selection. Often, the published leaderboard rankings are taken at face value - we show this is a (potentially costly) mistake. Under existing leaderboards, the relative performance... Dialect prejudice predicts AI decisions about people's character, employability, and criminality Hundreds of millions of people now interact with language models, with uses ranging from serving as a writing aid to informing hiring decisions. Yet these language models are known to perpetuate systematic racial prejudices, making their judgments biased in problematic ways about groups like African... More featured content News Articles Helping robots handle fluids A better way to study ocean currents 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 AI is helping astronomers make new discoveries and learn about the universe faster than ever before Scientists are using machine learning to forecast bird migration and identify birds in flight by their calls Researchers create a tool for accurately simulating complex systems Speeding up drug discovery with diffusion generative models AI has potential to revolutionise health care – but we must first confront the risk of algorithmic bias Strengthening trust in machine-learning models A method for designing neural networks optimally suited for certain tasks Social media addiction disrupts the sleep, moods and social activities of teens and young adults More news