Joel Z Leibo
@jzl86
Research scientist at Google DeepMind.
Reposting our paper from a few months ago as recent events again underscore its relevance: "a theory of appropriateness with applications to generative AI" arxiv.org/abs/2412.19010
Join the next seminar in our 'Updates in Cooperative AI' series exploring 'Modelling humans with neural networks for behavioural mechanism-design', live August 7th (5pm BST, 9am PT, 12pm ET) led by Raphael Köster. Link below.
Official results are in - Gemini achieved gold-medal level in the International Mathematical Olympiad! 🏆 An advanced version was able to solve 5 out of 6 problems. Incredible progress - huge congrats to @lmthang and the team! deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
Ethan is spot on. Sadly, widespread hostility toward AI in the humanities means they miss opportunities to shape the tools, platforms, and debates of tomorrow. That reluctance only deepens the marginalisation of cultural and historical knowledge in our society.
Don't leave AI to the STEM folks. They are often far worse at getting AI to do stuff than those with a liberal arts or social science bent. LLMs are built from the vast corpus human expression, and knowing the history & obscure corners of human works lets you do far more with AI
I do think it’s a character - but if you give a character tools to act in the real world and it causes harm that isn’t much consolation
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After all, it was humans who invented the preference-based theories of human values and individualist rationality that shape so much of our economy today - a historical contingency, not an inevitability. New theories can change the world, more so now than ever.
"Just train the AI models to be good people" might not be sufficient when it comes to more powerful models, but it sure is a dumb step to skip.
Yes!!! 💯
We're going to see more attempts to shoehorn agents into frameworks or laws relating to models, and I think this is an important thing to unpack. Concerns inherent to 'models' don't necessarily apply like for like to 'agents' or IDEs, and neither do the relevant mitigations. In…
Our special feature in PNAS released earlier this week: Collective Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Dynamics - you can find the collection of papers here: pnas.org/topic/569 Enjoy! The Collective Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Dynamics Special Feature…
This work shows how easily bias can form from basic cognitive principles, giving us a powerful new model to study the roots of discrimination. @WilCunningham @sssadedin @jzl86 @ramona_crg and others. Dive into the science: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #AI #Bias