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@davpoole.bsky.social

AI Educator, researcher, author. Professor Emeritus in CS at University of British Columbia. One of the founders of Statistical Relational AI. https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~poole/

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Alan Mackworth@alanmackworth.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Delighted to receive this award with @davpoole.bsky.social. @cs.ubc.ca @aaai.org Talk details here aaai.org/conference/a... #ai

AAAI-26 Invited Speakers - AAAI

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Gautam Kamath@gautamkamath.com · 8mo ago

The Patrick Henry Winston Outstanding Educator Award went to Alan Mackworth (@alanmackworth.bsky.social UBC) and David Poole (@davpoole.bsky.social UBC). At #AAAI2026, they'll be giving a talk "The Essence of Intelligence is Appropriate Action..." Sunday Jan 25 8:30AM @aaai.org @hadihoss.bsky.social

@davpoole.bsky.social · last yr.

"Generating text from LLMs can be seen as plagiarism, one word at a time." is a way to explain stochastic parrots of @emilymbender.bsky.social @timnitgebru.bsky.social Angelina McMillan-Major and @mmitchell.bsky.social Why AI can’t take over creative writing theconversation.com/why-ai-cant-...

Why AI can’t take over creative writing

As a computer scientist, I would hope that human creativity is more than regurgitating what others have written.

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Rodney Brooks@rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 2y ago

The 2024 Turing Prize winners announced this morning: Barto & Sutton for "developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning". Well deserved. Built on 1959 Donald Michie's idea; matchboxes and colored beads learning tic-tac-toe. awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning.

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. In a series of papers beginning...

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Daniel Lowd@dlowd.com · 2y ago

AI is like plastic — a lot of people hate it because it often comes across as fake and tacky, but it’s flexible and it’s cheap and there’s so many things that would be impossible or impractical without it. And yes, a lot of AI will be junk. Just like everything else. (cf Sturgeon’s Law.)

Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · 2y ago

The "Real World" is unfair. It is biased. And when it comes to estimating treatment effects, the "Big Data" can't fix a bias that's baked into how the data are collected (I would say "design", but there is usually no design involved). So pardon me if I prefer boring old "Useful Evidence".

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m sorry, this might be a great investigation, but “as it was never intended” is obscene. This is precisely how many people specifically and repeatedly told us — warned us — it would be used.

The Washington post Breaking News Post Exclusive 8 minutes ago Police use facial recognition as it was never intended: As a shortcut to finding and arresting suspects without further evidence Confident in unproven facial recognition technology, sometimes investigators skip steps, and at least eight Americans have been wrongfully arrested, a Washington Post investigation found.
Clément Canonne@ccanonne.github.io · 2y ago

I genuinely cannot believe Google is now showing Gemini-generated medical snippets including *drug summaries and medical advice* to treatserious health conditions. I checked. It does. With barely a tiny disclaimer about GenAI. How can a (formerly?) trusted company be so incredibly reckless?

MAIKEONE[big]@maosbot.bsky.social · 2y ago

Autonomous vehicles accelerate the trend begun by cars of isolating travellers from their neighbourhoods, reducing neighbors to mere obstacles our sensors try to avoid, and hence dissolving the social bonds that hold together communities

Becky & Frank@beckyandfrank.com · 2y ago

Google AI reporting “no drug interactions” for two drugs that definitely have drug interactions. When can we collectively decide the AI experiment is over?

Chris Stokel-Walker@stokel.bsky.social · 2y ago

The UK is consulting on plans to favour AI firms over creators when it comes to copyright. For @newscientist.bsky.social, I wrote about what that means www.newscientist.com/article/2461...

UK plans to favour AI firms over creators with a new copyright regime

One of the biggest uncertainties in the ongoing AI revolution is whether these systems can legally be trained on copyrighted data. Now, the UK says it plans to clarify the matter with a change to the ...

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@davpoole.bsky.social · 2y ago

Two things I learned from #neurips2024 1) transcriptions are still terrible. The simultaneous transcriptions of the talks didn't take into account the vocabulary of the papers being presented. It's probably the fault of one-size-fits-all language models. There were slides with the vocabulary... 2/

@davpoole.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are pleased to announce the latest version of AIPython.org: open-source, runnable pseudocode (in Python) for all your favorite AI algorithms, including search, CSPs, logic, planning, supervised machine learning, neural network, graphical models, unsupervised learning, causality, /2

AIPython

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MAIKEONE[big]@maosbot.bsky.social · 2y ago

Human minds, intelligences and states of consciousness are beautifully diverse—I just don't buy that the right approach for AI is "all you need is more compute", pretending AI has an objective view from nowhere, and being owned by a small number of homogenously white-bread tech firms