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Ronen Tamari

8 months

New year, new ways to do science! 🍾🔭 I'm excited to share some details about Sensemaking Networks, the project I’ll be developing this year @AsteraInstitute ! 🧵1/ Blog post version (2 parts):

Part 2: Sensemaking Networks Project Plan

Integrating fragmented science social media and reducing the barriers to semantic publishing

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

9 months

🎉Life update: I'm starting a new position as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence @AsteraInstitute ! I’ll be working on upgrading science social media by combining AI and federated semantic nanopublishing to improve how we collaboratively make sense of science (in the open!) >

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Ronen Tamari

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1 month

Selectively breeding the most *individually* productive hens leads to lower overall egg production, so chicken farmers have cleverly learned to shift selection to the level of the *group*. Economists, on the other hand >

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have achieved a degenerate reversal of devaluing everything except personal gain. When will the chicken farmers rescue us from the neoliberal economists?

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2 years

@ubiquity75 Intersting recent research on this!

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@hermittoday “We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our illusions die.” -- W.H. Auden

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sources :

Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital

Humanizing the Economy: Co-operatives in the Age of Capital by John Restakis is an excellent, easily accessible read, which I highly recommend to anyone in

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

1 year

GPT4 - veils are off, current big tech NLP losing any pretense of academic research:

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

4 years

Cool timeline by @jhamrick on AI and cog-sci converging/diverging over the years, hopefully starting to come back together! :) #BAICS2020 #ICLR2020

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

9 months

🎉Life update: I'm starting a new position as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence @AsteraInstitute ! I’ll be working on upgrading science social media by combining AI and federated semantic nanopublishing to improve how we collaboratively make sense of science (in the open!) >

Astera Institute

@AsteraInstitute

1 year

We are launching two new opportunities in Science: a Science EIR program & a Request for Ideas. Help us think scientifically about how to solve bottlenecks in publishing. Please spread the word!

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

1 year

Subbarao Kambhampati (కంభంపాటి సుబ్బారావు)

@rao2z

1 year

📢 My new piece for @blogCACM summarizing my views and our ongoing work on the planning/reasoning abilities of LLMs..

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

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Are there any good theories about why this happens? E.g., why does the tech focus on automating creative work as opposed to automating the really tedious things? Is it just since the creative work makes for flashier headlines? I feel like there is something deeper here...

Joanna Maciejewska—Snakebitten is here. Get it!

@AuthorJMac

5 months

You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

7 months

A few months late - my PhD Thesis is finally up on arXiv 🎉 "What's my model inside of?": Exploring the role of environments for grounded natural language understanding TL;DR in two excerpts #PhDone

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

2 years

1/Excited to share some new work on collective sensemaking! We’ll present it in the Blue Sky Ideas track (~open, exciting areas for R&D) of the upcoming @ACMHT This is a collective effort of @daostack , Veeo, @InferenceActive @CSenseMakers @HyadataLab 🧵

From Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic...

The web has become a dominant epistemic environment, influencing people's beliefs at a global scale. However, online epistemic environments are increasingly polluted, impairing societies' ability...

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

21 days

This is fine

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

4 years

Lakoff's audacious Conceptual Metaphor Theory becoming more grounded: "Convergent evidence from neural, cognitive, and information sciences is pointing toward a fascinating hypothesis: (1/n)

Knowledge Across Reference Frames: Cognitive Maps and Image Spaces

In human and non-human animals, conceptual knowledge is partially organized according to low-dimensional geometries that rely on brain structures and computations involved in spatial representations....

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

27 days

@mmbronstein The processes that shape what research questions are asked, how they are pursued, what research gets attention, all of these are political. See research by @yoginho @evantthompson for example below

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

1 year

@lizweil Thanks, looking forward to reading this! One thought meanwhile - the fact that we have to delve deep into the psyches of these self-elected "leaders" is a sign of a deeply FUBAR situation. @doctorow writes about Zuckerberg in "The Internet Con" and the same holds for Altman

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

3 years

Excited to share our new preprint! We take a deep dive into the bAbI benchmark. Why bAbI? It targets a core NLU competency of *grounded situation modelling* for which very few benchmarks currently exist . Longish 🧵> 1/

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@arxiv_cscl

3 years

Dyna-bAbI: unlocking bAbI's potential with dynamic synthetic benchmarking

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

3 years

Super excited to start a visiting research program this year at @judyefan 's Cognitive Tools () lab in UCSD! Looking forward to working on questions at the intersection of cognitive science, comp. ling. and AI. And also sea and sun 🏄😎

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

7 months

👀 "we contacted the service while undercover as a fictional author, and managed to purchase 50 citations" hardcore investigative academia 🕵️ h/t @shirandudy

Google Scholar is manipulatable

Citations are widely considered in scientists' evaluation. As such, scientists may be incentivized to inflate their citation counts. While previous literature has examined self-citations and...

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

4 years

Interesting paper by Marco Baroni on evolving useful languages. 1. "Formal semanticists with a heart condition might want to stop reading at this point." lol 2. Focus should be on designing environments in which agents develop properties of interest

Rat big, cat eaten! Ideas for a useful deep-agent protolanguage

Deep-agent communities developing their own language-like communication protocol are a hot (or at least warm) topic in AI. Such agents could be very useful in machine-machine and human-machine...

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

2 years

For all the impressive performance of LLMs like 🐕/🦩, I would still be really surprised if they could reliably solve the type of challenge we suggested in our ACL2020 paper, eg a story + qs about the final state (how many fruits are now in crate 2?)

Murray Shanahan

@mpshanahan

2 years

Chinchilla is very impressive. I tried a similar exercise, and it did very well

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

3 years

Super excited to be returning to @allen_ai this summer for an internship with Kyle Richardson and the Aristo team!

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@rtk254

2 years

Linguistic Embodiment Hypothesis: language as an embodied experiential modality like perception, etc, but also shared and public (eg Clark's extended cognition). Also interesting re LLM chain-of-thought methods

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

4 years

Interesting paper - "by introducing position tokens (e.g., "3 10e1 2"), transformers learn to accurately add and subtract numbers up to 60 digits" Another angle - exposing model to "meaning behind the symbols" does wonders for performance. How to do this in NLU as well?

Aran Komatsuzaki

@arankomatsuzaki

4 years

Investigating the Limitations of the Transformers with Simple Arithmetic Tasks LM struggles with addition and subtraction when subword or char-level vocab, but it can perform remarkably accurately with better tokenization.

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

8 months

Open access to information != open access to tools and capacities to *make sense* of information Some related research of mine with @InferenceActive :

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

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@JimRuttShow this might be related to our conversation on why our current economic system selects for sociopaths

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

3 months

📢 Hey #ScienceTwitter ! Would you join an open science social media mirroring service? It would ensure that all your research-related posts were citeable & open access, regardless of source platform (X, Masto, Bsky,)! 🔁 RT if you’re interested 📊 Also - vote below for features

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

4 years

Our position paper on the importance of metaphor and mental simulation in natural language understanding was accepted to #acl2020nlp ! Metaphor is turning out to be quite a rabbit hole... ;) Crazy and fun ride @ChenShani2 @HyadataLab

Chen Shani

@ChenShani2

4 years

Good news can come during quarantine! Our #Acl2020 paper "Language (Re)modelling: Towards Embodied Language Understanding" has been accepted! @aclmeeting Thank you @rtk254 for a fruitful sleepless night ;)

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

5 months

The semantic web phoenix is rising from the ashes

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@gordonbrander

5 months

LLMs *are* the realization of the semantic web dream

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

1 year

A lot has been written about how the traditional science model of publishing and peer review is broken. One connection I haven’t seen made is with the **sensemaking** literature, which studies how people understand complex topics 🧵 1/

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

4 years

Looks like a cool idea - emergent grounded communication as a non-linguistic pretraining for NMT models. From Yaoyiran Li, @PontiEdoardo , Ivan Vulic, @annalkorhonen

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

5 years

Blue-sky proposal paper accepted for spotlight @ Bridging AI and Cognitive Science workshop, ICLR2020! Work with @GabiStanovsky @rtsarfaty and Dafna Shahaf ( @HyadataLab ) 1/n

Ecological Semantics: Programming Environments for Situated...

Large-scale natural language understanding (NLU) systems have made impressive progress: they can be applied flexibly across a variety of tasks, and employ minimal structural assumptions. However,...

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

6 months

Some people imagine the future of science as LLMs peer-reviewing other LLM written papers, and that future seems pretty bleak to me. This excellent paper details the hazards of over-automating science and challenges us to re-humanize the scientific endeavor. Thoughts in 🧵1/6

M.J. Crockett

@mollycrockett

6 months

Now out in @nature : Artificial Intelligence and Illusions of Understanding in Scientific Research, coauthored with the brilliant @lmesseri and edited by the supremely talented @meharpist Link: Open version: 🧵

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

4 years

Our camera ready (pre-preprint) for #acl2020nlp is up! We propose a unifying view of embodied cognitive linguistics theory (drawing on @GeorgeLakoff & co.) with current NLU and embodied AI research, emphasizing role of mental simulation and metaphor (1/n)

Language (Re)modelling: Towards Embodied Language Understanding | Ronen Tamari

While natural language understanding (NLU) is advancing rapidly, today's technology differs from human-like language understanding in fundamental ways, notably in its inferior efficiency, interpret...

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

9 months

The next scientific revolution will be *metascientific* - in how we do science. IMO this paper presents a compelling vision for a new kind of science - more democratic, inclusive and relevant. 🧵 of related thoughts/excerpts > 1/

Yogi Jaeger 💙 @[email protected]

@yoginho

11 months

At last: our preprint "An Epistemology for Democratic Citizen Science" has been accepted for publication at Royal Society Open Science: . So good to see this come out in a peer-reviewed venue! @C_Masselot @gedankenstuecke @esenabre @mhaklay @msantolini

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Ronen Tamari

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2 years

@ACMHT @daostack @InferenceActive @CSenseMakers @HyadataLab 2/TL;DR: lots of talk about free speech online, but what about *free attention*, and why is it key for sensemaking? Free speech=freely creating new content; open-sourcing/decentralizing code, finance, social media.. freeing attention=freely sharing *reactions* (likes, bookmarks,)

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

2 years

@alienelf Totally, it feels like a massively funded distraction campaign from real problems (ones that big tech can't solve, as opposed to generating cool AI art).

murat 🍥

@mayfer

2 years

it has been 10 years since siri was released

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

3 months

I’ll be presenting Sensemaking Networks next week at @ICSSIConference ! 🌑Social media is part of the "dark matter" of science research, exerting dramatic impact but off the scientific record 🔦 We'll talk about how to make it visible 🌖 Also - I’d love to meet up with fellow

Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

8 months

New year, new ways to do science! 🍾🔭 I'm excited to share some details about Sensemaking Networks, the project I’ll be developing this year @AsteraInstitute ! 🧵1/ Blog post version (2 parts):

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

4 years

There may be a similar issue in NLP, where SOTA transformer models fail on synthetic language compositionality tests (e.g. ), and yet such "toy" tasks are often frowned upon.

Tim Rocktäschel

@_rockt

4 years

It is 2020 and I still have to argue with reviewers that gridworlds are perfectly suitable for testing the limits of current RL SotA. Some photorealistic 3D environment might be many orders of magnitude easier to solve than complex procgen environments like MiniGrid or NetHack.

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

2 years

@gdb Alternatively, a big takeaway from the GPT paradigm is that our conceptions of what it means to be human are far more impoverished than almost anyone anticipated (e.g. thinking both humans and LLMs are merely some kind of stochastic parrots)

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i am a stochastic parrot, and so r u

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@rtk254

2 months

Loving this idea. Learning to "out-cooperate the competition" will spark massive and transformative systems change.

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@rtk254

3 years

@RadxChange #RxCDenver2021 was🤯 Our session on web3/ed-tech/sense-making turned into a brilliant 1-hr improv. idea jam (as many of the RxC sessions do). @RadxChange is an amazing hopeful force and I'm super grateful+happy to be able to join the effort!

Colin Reynolds | misterreynolds.eth

@misterreynolds

3 years

Dang there is a grip of brilliant/passionate people out there that helped build this “distributed cognition” map around “WTF is #web3 ” from an education/tech/sense-making lens. Thanks y’all! #RxCDenver21

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

2 years

I like how this @MetaAI paper opens with information overload as the main motivation but then does not include important critical perspectives on the risks of LLM based approaches to this problem, such as Situating Search by @chirag_shah and @emilymbender

Papers with Code

@paperswithcode

2 years

🪐 Introducing Galactica. A large language model for science. Can summarize academic literature, solve math problems, generate Wiki articles, write scientific code, annotate molecules and proteins, and more. Explore and get weights:

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@rtk254

6 months

AI was revolutionized by an old idea (neural nets) revisited with new tools (massive compute/data) Similarly, CI (collective intelligence) will be revolutionized by an old idea (semantic web) revisited with new tools (AI + decentralized tech) What makes the CI revolution harder >

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@rtk254

2 years

@ACMHT @daostack @InferenceActive @CSenseMakers @HyadataLab @HumaneTech_ @tristanharris @jbakcoleman 7/Stigmergy refers to the phenomena of indirect coordination mediated by modifications of the environment, eg ant pheromone trails. The crazy part is that the env acts as a kind of distributed memory system for a collective organism:

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

4 years

Interested in compositional generalization? Check out my write-up and (independent) implementation of @keysers et. al's DBCA, a great method for creating dataset splits with precise control over compositionality, to better evaluate comp. generalization.

Distribution Based Compositionality Assessment (DBCA) | Ronen Tamari

Blog post write-up of DBCA paper (Keysers et. al, 2020)

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

1 year

I just donated to the Metacrisis on @gitcoin . Join me in making a difference by donating today!

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@rtk254

6 months

periodic PSA: Sensemaking is embodied

John Warner

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6 months

Fundamentally wrong. Drafting is thinking. Revision is thinking. It's all thinking. The struggle is the point. Anti-education thinking from a college professor. We are lost.

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

6 months

Loving @aka_MatsuLab 's talk at @descieth @ CU Denver today! Moving from monoculture science to permaculture science with distributed & collaborative tools for thought🌱🌱🌱

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

9 months

@matspike lol a different kind of AGI singularity

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@rtk254

6 months

Someone in the neighborhood yoga studio gifted me this book! Gotta love Cambridge 🤓

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

10 months

🧐 We need new frames for rethinking our relation to data! In existing frames, data is inert & detached, remains we leave behind that are meaningless to us (data as "exhaust" or "oil") but can be captured by corporations and converted to gold. 🧵 1/

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@rtk254

4 months

Language models != world models "Probing Multimodal LLMs as World Models for Driving"

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

8 months

🥱 Tired: Organizing the world's information (Google mission statement) ⚡Wired: Self-organizing the world's information (decentralized stigmergic sensemaking systems)

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

3 years

@yoavgo I don't think there ever will be any "good definition" becuase there are infinitely many ways sentences can be similar or dissimilar, where goals/task demands dictate which metrics will be useful in a particular context

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@rtk254

4 years

Still amazing to be able to just hop into a deep (while also super friendly and informal) discussion with Jay McClelland and so many other brilliant minds. - Systematicity is highly educational rather than innate - Compositionality in language emerges from compositional envs

Ida Momennejad

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4 years

Join us at the salon at 4 PM ET today! Let's be happy anxious together and chat with the brilliant Jay McClelland into a celebration :-)

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4 years

Cool Nature paper at intersection of neuro-cogsci:AI- learn to predict cortical responses to words based on word2vec decoding using a simple linear layer(!?), find language comprehension system widespread across both hemis, not localized in left hemi. 1/2

Connecting concepts in the brain by mapping cortical representations of semantic relations

Nature Communications - Researchers leverage advances in machine learning to study the brain’s mechanism for natural language processing. Results suggest that the brain represents a...

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@rtk254

6 months

DDOS attack on humanity. Pascal saw this coming in the 17th century

Pнıʟ McRαε

@philmcrae

6 months

SMARTPHONE BAN In the US, a teacher (Mary Garza) instructed her students to set their phones to loud mode. Each time a notification was received they’d stand up & tally it under a suitable category. This occurred during ONE class period. Each mark is a learning disruption #edchat

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1 year

Our collective brain is so broken. “neurons that fire together, wire together” is a fundamental rule of learning in individual brains But in our *collective brain*, the firings (~individuals’ activity on various social networks) and wirings (~our social + interest graphs) > 1/

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

11 months

Really looking forward to engaging with the local DeSci community @DeSciBoston ! Come by if you're around Oct 21-22 ✨🧑‍🔬

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Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

4 years

Finding @NotionHQ to be a fantastic tool for research (and free for students, too!) Two features that would make it a killer app for reference management: - Special web clipper for academic papers to extract citation metadata automatically - Ability to annotate embedded pdfs

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@rtk254

2 years

1/Check out our 1st @gitcoin grant at : a joint project of @CSenseMakers , @braddegraf , @lovevolv As we explored here, open sharing of attention signals (aka markers/annotations), eg bookmarks, tags, likes, is key to healthier information environments🧵

Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

2 years

1/Excited to share some new work on collective sensemaking! We’ll present it in the Blue Sky Ideas track (~open, exciting areas for R&D) of the upcoming @ACMHT This is a collective effort of @daostack , Veeo, @InferenceActive @CSenseMakers @HyadataLab 🧵

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Language models != World models Inconvenient truths for AI... Excellent post by @mark_riedl

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@ACMHT @daostack @InferenceActive @CSenseMakers @HyadataLab 3/Sense-making refers to processes by which agents make sense of their environment, by organizing sense data until the environment is understood well enough to enable reasonable decisions. But collective sensemaking is in a bad state...

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@rtk254

3 years

🧑‍🔬🧪We'll be presenting our work on process-level annotation+modelling of scientific procedural texts this week@ #EACL2021 ! Poster session 23/4 13-15 UTC, we'd love to chat :) Project page: Great team effort w/ @loadingfan , @alan_ritter , @GabiStanovsky ! >

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Very interesting work, obj.-oriented reps. + sequential application of learned rules - arch. biased towards both (1) learning of specialized modules as well as (2) their reuse. Compare w/ @robert_csordas where Transformers found to succeed at 1 but not 2

Anirudh Goyal

@anirudhg9119

3 years

Neural Production Systems: Entities and Sparse Rules Aniket Didolkar, @rosemary_ke , @BlundellCharles , @PhilBeaudoin , Nicolas Heess, Michael Mozer, Yoshua Bengio @Mila_Quebec

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@arkosiorek lots of interesting work on how commercialization of science (industry capture, enclosing data for commercial interests, etc) renders it in to something that isn't really science anymore (though masquerading as it)- see pharma ghostwriting as extreme case

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3 years

Cool paper from @ErikJones313 and @JacobSteinhardt drawing on insights from cog sci to analyze Codex code generation failures! While Codex papers too often just focus on models doing "magic tricks", this kind of error analysis is v. helpful to get a sense of model limitations

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@arxiv_cscl

3 years

Capturing Failures of Large Language Models via Human Cognitive Biases

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Semantic web is a killer app for web3

Yaniv Tal

@yanivgraph

3 months

First post in a few years. Knowledge graphs are web3

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“what about downloading our lives to the land instead of just uploading them to the cloud?” visited @awarenesss on the farm with @shirandudy , we loved it! Thanks @DoomerOptimism for connecting us via the podcast ✨

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1/Really enjoyed this talk - an insightful political philosophy perspective on how can we better govern collective attention in the age of global scale digital platforms (Facebook, Twitter, etc) dominating the public sphere.

Seth Lazar

@sethlazar

2 years

Lecture 2 in the Tanner series, on Communicative Justice and the Distribution of Attention. Thank you to @random_walker for such a rich response! And to @StanfordHAI and @StanfordEthics for the opportunity: One more discussion seminar to go!

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@ACMHT @daostack @InferenceActive @CSenseMakers @HyadataLab @HumaneTech_ @tristanharris @jbakcoleman @philipplenz6 @mbauwens @project_solid @Filecoin @RubenVerborgh @mmasnick @protocollabs @obsdmd @memexgarden @logseq @AthensResearch @WilliamsJames_ @metagov @RadxChange 20/And thank you for your attention if you made it all the way here :) This is just the start of our journey and we'd be happy to connect with fellow sensemakers! To be in touch, follow us at @CSenseMakers or drop us a DM to join our collective! /end

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@ACMHT @daostack @InferenceActive @CSenseMakers @HyadataLab @HumaneTech_ @tristanharris @jbakcoleman @philipplenz6 11/Markers are in many ways digital traces of human attention! So what's our proposal? Stated simply, akin to the open source software (OSS) movement to free software, we propose an Open Source Attention (OSA) movement to free stigmergic marker data (~attention) from platforms >

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@jacobmenick @hllo_wrld Agreed! This is the ML analog of extended cognition- "the mind (model) does not exclusively reside in the brain (ANN) or even the body, but extends into the physical world (dataset)" :)

Extended mind thesis - Wikipedia

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What do ant trails have to do with navigating info online, and what can 🐜🐜 teach us about designing social networks for collective intelligence? Come explore with us at our talk + discussion at #DWebCamp2023 ! @braddegraf @CSenseMakers @GetDWeb @sched

DWeb Camp 2023: From Users to (Sense)Makers: open sourci...

View more about this event at DWeb Camp 2023

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@ACMHT @daostack @InferenceActive @CSenseMakers @HyadataLab @HumaneTech_ @tristanharris @jbakcoleman 8/Agents modify the env, which affects same/other agents, constituting a cybernetic feedback loop. Pretty much all large scale coordination must rely on stigmergy (including for humans), so we really want to create healthy and well functioning stigmergic infrastructure!

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@rtk254

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@ACMHT @daostack @InferenceActive @CSenseMakers @HyadataLab 5/opaque information ecologies, where network data and algorithms are effectively hidden away from public/scientific/ethical oversight. Opaque platforms are involved in a host of deeply problematic social phenomena, as noted by many @HumaneTech_ @tristanharris @jbakcoleman

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@rtk254

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Can we create this future please? "Collective Intelligence as a great scientific, technical, and political project that aims to 'make people smarter with computers, instead of trying to make computers smarter than people'"

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@omniharmonic Still beyond me why we don't have huge well funded labs pursuing these systems

Ronen Tamari

@rtk254

1 year

I've been saying the same but with a human-centered focus- CERN for large-scale collaborative human-AI systems

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@MatanField I see the logic, but I want to challenge it. You're making an implicit assumption that "eventually" the market will find good solutions. How are you so sure? There are many reasons to question that assumption.. Markets suffer pathologies that may prevent that from ever happening

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@yoavgo מסכים, ובנוסף, האמת ה*לא* פשוטה היא ששהיי-טק גם מייצר הרבה בעיות בסקייל חסר תקדים - ad-tech ממכר, facetune + דימוי גוף של נערות צעירות, metaverse, צ'טבוטים דיסטופיים והרשימה ארוכה

My Girlfriend Is a Chatbot

Quarantine amid coronavirus could boost the nascent practice of seeking romance and friendship from artificial intelligence.

www.wsj.com

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@rtk254

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This is a sign to print and point to

Massimo

@Rainmaker1973

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From a 1979 IBM presentation

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reason #651 why it's time to rethink and rebuild science social media as a piece of critical scientific infrastructure

Delip Rao e/σ

@deliprao

8 months

Crazy AF. Paper studies @_akhaliq and @arankomatsuzaki paper tweets and finds those papers get 2-3x higher citation counts than control. They are now influencers 😄 Whether you like it or not, the TikTokification of academia is here!

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Really enjoyed this paper by @dohmatobelvis @introspe @danilobzdok , helps weave together different accounts under a coherent framework, and understand default mode network (DMN) role in "dark" language understanding. A particular idea that (1/2)

Dark control: The default mode network as a reinforcement learning agent

The default mode network (DMN) is believed to subserve the baseline mental activity in humans. Its higher energy consumption compared to other brain networks and its intimate coupling with conscious...

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Ronen Tamari

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This looks interesting! They find that hard masking to remove potential attention pairs helps Transformers in compositional generalization tasks. This resonates with cog-sci findings that attentional capacity bottleneck is a feature, not a bug. See also >

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@cognazor "Ask not what's inside your head, but what's your head inside of"

Ecological psychology - Wikipedia

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Just remarkable how easily you can swap "cell" with "company" and get a coherent analogy between capitalism and cancer

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@rtk254

4 years

If you're also feeling overwhelmed by the onslaught of papers, check out my new blog post about using the 🔥 @NotionHQ for research (+ templates for hacking on). Would be great to hear your own comments/ideas/hacks!

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@rtk254

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"if we want deep networks to develop language-like communication skills, we cannot just train them to reproduce statistical regularities in static linguistic corpora (as is done in language modeling[...]), but we should plunge them into interactive scenarios"

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@yoavgo

Abeba Birhane

@Abebab

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When the output is beautiful, it's all the model. When the output is racist, discriminatory, or otherwise unjust, it's the training data, the filtering, or society

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This paper from Firston, Tenenbaum et. al looks 🔥 Active inference models *select their own data*- provides an interesting perspective on the age old q of RL vs supervised.

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@rtk254

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Interesting analysis on why first person view is important to emergence of compact representations in embodied agents Maybe of interest @FelixHill84

On the Sensory Commutativity of Action Sequences for Embodied Agents

Perception of artificial agents is one the grand challenges of AI research. Deep Learning and data-driven approaches are successful on constrained problems where perception can be learned using...

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Intriguing connections with divergent hemispheric reasoning strategies - does over-reliance on the model-biased left hemisphere lead to proxy failures? @BrettPAndersen

Yohan J. John

@DrYohanJohn

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I'm very happy to announce that our paper on "proxy failure" — analogues of Goodhart's Law ranging from molecular biology to brains to business to ecology — has been made available at Behavioral and Brain Sciences. A thread. 🧵 .

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Very interesting paper by @arielbstarr et. al! Spatial understanding scaffolds concrete->abstract word learning in children. @FelixHill84 @AndrewLampinen would be interesting to see how embodied agents handle the daxy ball experiment. :) ...

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@rtk254

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The classic “Information wants to be free” (Stewart Brand, 1984) needs updating in our age of exponential information explosion. Access to information ≠ ability to *make sense* of information Next level: “Information wants to be FAIR” 🚀

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Anyone else getting regularly locked out of their Twitter account and being forced to pass weird captcha tests to "prove they are human" ?

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Those of us who value truth must organize as effectively as the propagandists. As they pollute our information ecosystem, we must create healthier epistemic environments.

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@couldrynick @jakusg @sbenthall @csageland @doctorow Shout out to the Social Sensemaking Scenius where we're working and playing with these ideas! 🌱 ✨ @CSenseMakers @relationalorg @lovevolv @InferenceActive @popp0x @gabriel_export @tysullberg @nebo333 @ShaRefOh @joyqzhang @getbloop @maceagon @clinamenic 13/13

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