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Pedro Domingos

@pmddomingos

Professor of computer science at UW and author of '2040' and 'The Master Algorithm'. Into machine learning, AI, and anything that makes me curious.

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If the same guy had tried to assassinate Harris, it would be unanimously declared a Russian plot with the collusion of Trump's entire campaign staff.

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Language models were invented in 1913 by Andrei Markov. His training data was “Eugene Onegin”, and he computed the parameters by hand.

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His model is now called a Markov chain. Google’s PageRank algorithm is a Markov chain where instead of predicting the next word we predict the next Web page reached by following a random link from the current one.

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Transformers partly overcome this by learning to select which words to use. LLMs are essentially just that coupled with Web-scale data.

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In his dissertation, my graduate student showed that political endorsements by scientific publications: (1) don't convince anyone about politics; (2) make people less likely to believe scientists when it comes to vaccines, health advisories, etc. nature.com/articles/s4156…

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Yuval Noah Harari is bringing the moment when AI surpasses human intelligence closer and closer by writing stupider and stupider books. thetimes.com/culture/books/…