"I’ve wanted to type questions into a search bar and, in seconds, read the consensus from decades of scientific research. Such a tool is already in development and is called Consensus." Derek Thompson AI is redefining search. Sign up at consensus.app theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Can Humans Find Common Ground? Sure. Just Start With Sea Slugs. nytimes.com/2022/12/09/us/…

Utah’s social media for kids law could be coming to a state near you vox.com/technology/202… via Vox

The chatbot era: Better or worse off? My two cents, as it relates to misinformation. seattletimes.com/opinion/the-ch… via The Seattle Times

Searching the web for science: how small mistakes create big problems nature.com/articles/d4158…

Science published a hopelessly credulous news story entitled "Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common" about one of the worst preprints we've seen in years. This is some next-level bullshit. Over at Mastodon, a full thread: fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/…

🧐Can language models generate new scientific ideas? Introducing contextualized literature-based discovery (C-LBD): 1. (L)LMs are given specific contexts/motivations + retrieved *inspirations* from papers💡 2. Goal is to generate text with novel hypotheses. New preprint: 🧵⬇️

Suspensions of prominent accounts minimally impact platform engagement osf.io/preprints/soca… via Center for Open Science

Congress escalates push for disinformation researchers’ private documents washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Have large language models developed analogical reasoning skills? Maybe, but our simple experiments demonstrate otherwise: arxiv.org/abs/2308.16118

Frightening how easy disinformation has become: youtu.be/cwGdkrc9i2Y?si… via YouTube

Press Forward Will Award More Than $500 Million to Revitalize Local News macfound.org/press/press-re…

Silicon Valley hype oozes from this video (eg, ‘understanding of science’, ‘reasoning capabilities’, ‘reads 200k papers’) but the re-graphing tool is pretty nice. If it can do that consistently and reliably, worth trying out. youtu.be/sPiOP_CB54A?si… via YouTube

Ironic that Ioannidis led a study on extremely productive authors, which "has become worryingly common across scientific fields." From my count he has published more than 150 papers in the last 2 years. That is about a paper every 5 days. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The Misguided War on the SAT nytimes.com/2024/01/07/bri…

New nonpartisan AI nonprofit TrueMedia.org, led by Oren @Etzioni and backed by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp (Garrett Camp), is making a political deepfake detector geekwire.com/2024/new-ai-no… via @GeekWire

TrueMedia.org: new non-partisan, non-profit effort to detect manipulated media geekwire.com/2024/new-ai-no… via @GeekWire

🧵@jevinwest and I recently wrote a commentary: "Search engines post-#ChatGPT: How generative artificial intelligence could make search less reliable." We discuss 6 critical issues as search engines transition from "helping" you find the answer to "answering" your question.

Honored to be quoted alongside my advisor @jevinwest in the latest nature news article by Davide Castelvecchi! It’s exciting to contribute to the conversation on Sakana AI’s AI scientist and automating science in general. Check it out here: nature.com/articles/d4158… A full