Sociotechnical systems and value pluralism of generative AI.
In June 2023, I was honoured to be included on one of the expert panels consulting to Australia’s Commissioner for eSafety on the topic of Generative AI (GenAI). In addition to a virtual panel, I was able to provide the Continue Reading …
I was invited to speak on a great panel on 14th July 2023 as part of a symposium run by the ADM+S Centre. The moderator was the wonderful Prof Flora Salim! The topic was “Modelling the Complex World with Generative Continue Reading …
19th July 2023 On the 19th July I convened a follow-up to the April ChatLLM23 conference. ChatRegs was a thinktank of invited experts that workshopped the questions in the Australian Government Feedback portal (closes today) on the future of AI Continue Reading …
Originally posted on Linkedin July 2023 I was reading about early cave painting yesterday with thoughts trundling along the path of “history and philosophy of tech”. Specifically, I was thinking about ancient cave painting and ho it relates to GenAI Continue Reading …
This is what it said (copied exactly the way it came out). “Language models, like other AI systems, cannot have sentience because they lack several key attributes that characterize sentient beings, such as consciousness, feelings, and self-awareness. Here, I’ll explain Continue Reading …
Originally posted on Linkedin June 2023 in response to a post by Martin Ciupa. Predictive processing is the idea that our brains are constantly predicting what is about to happen around us, and using that to construct models of reality. Continue Reading …
Originally from a Linkedin post as well as some of my comments on Andrew Ng’s post. I am not an x-risker. I am a generative AI ethicist that talks about grounded things like centralisation of power, normative biases in evaluation Continue Reading …
I originally posted this article on Medium. Reflections from a Generative AI Ethicist at The University of Sydney.Two reports released on 1st June 2023 signal the Australian government is prepared to take AI risks seriously, but it needs to respond Continue Reading …
Originally posted on Linkedin in May 2023 Are we teaching young university students to pass a reversed Turing test? Yesterday I was teaching 1st year undergraduates University of Sydney in the Faculty Science in a faculty-wide unit run by the Philosophy of Continue Reading …
Originally posted on Linkedin 16th May 2023 in response to an article in the Washington Post about the US Senate Hearing on Generative AI that included Sam Altman on the panel. In the Land-of-Runaway-Capitalism, today the public was invited to Continue Reading …