Ryan Othniel Kearns
ryanothnielkearns.bsky.social
Ryan Othniel Kearns
@ryanothnielkearns.bsky.social
Cosmos Fellow, Laboratory for Human-Centered AI
MSc Social Data Science, Oxford Internet Institute
I cannot pass a Turing test; would you like to play chess?

https://www.ryanothnielkearns.com/
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“Mazviita Chirimuuta’s The Brain Abstracted is a landmark work in the philosophy of neuroscience.”
Indeed!
December 3, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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📣 Call for Participation! 📣
BHRJ's special issue on Business, #AI, and #HumanRights is soliciting proposals! Hoping to publish a wide variety of pieces from scholars with a diversity of backgrounds. Abstracts due Feb 10.
#philtech #AIEthics #academia #CFP
December 5, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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More people who take a sociotechnical approach to AI (many of whom think it is fake and sucks) need to condition on the fact that real advances have been made, and more are to come. Not just to avoid irrelevance, but because the sociotechnical approach is so urgently needed for what’s coming.
One of the most important debates in tech right now is the group of folks who think AI is fake and sucks vs. the people who think AI is real and dangerous. I wrote about why I'm in the latter camp, and talked about my differences with Gary Marcus www.platformer.news/ai-skeptics-...
December 6, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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Reverse Thinking Makes LLMs Stronger Reasoners

abs: arxiv.org/abs/2411.19865

Train an LLM to be able to generate forward reasoning from question, backward question, and backward reaoning from backward question

Shows an average 13.53% improvement over the student model’s zero-shot performance
December 2, 2024 at 10:45 AM