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.@jeffdean is quoted here saying about Stochastic Parrots that “surveyed valid concerns with large language models, and in fact many teams at Google are actively working on these issues.”
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@JeffDean (His earlier comments that Stochastic Parrots “didn’t meet our bar for publication” are also cited --- nvm that it was published, after **anonymous** peer review, and that the PALM paper is just a preprint...)
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Anyway: "Google is actively working on these issues" is not a satisfactory response to the concerns that we & others have raised, esp when they come out with papers like the PaLM paper which are so utterly sloppy in how they handle ethical considerations.
Trying to attend "Conversational Information Seeking: Theory and Evaluation (Session 1)" at #CHIIR2022, but the Zoom link in the conference room in Gather isn't working. Anyone have a clue?
Also, there don't seem to be any papers listed in that session, nor "Conversational Information Seeking: Theory and Evaluation (session 2)" this afternoon. Maybe these are just phantom calendar entries? #CHIIR2022 what's going on?
I find it very nerve wracking when the interfaces to online conferences are unclear ... like I'm meant to be somewhere, but I can't figure out where, nor can I figure out why I can't figure it out. Also, no helpdesk that I can see, so no one to ask... #chiir2022
Looking forward to #chiir2022 this week and to presenting "Situating Search", with @chirag_shah
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@chirag_shah In this #chiir2022 perspective paper we argue that using language model driven conversation agents (e.g. LaMDA) for search is flawed both technically and conceptually.
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Technical flaws include the fact that the language models aren't designed to perform "reasoning" (despite wild claims, such as Metzler et al 2021 referring to their "reasoning-like capabilities"). See also Bender & Koller 2020:
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