Bec Johnson
@bec.bsky.social
Trying to finish a PhD on ethics of generative AI just as the entire world has started talking about it. Not at all exhausting. Also, daily dog adventures around Sydney and beyond!
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An Australian-based astrophysics research centre (ASTRO 3D) has achieved gender parity through usage of research in sociology & psychology to develop evidence-based strategies.
Key for retention of women is to ensure women are in leadership/recruiting positions & have work-life balance.
🔭🧪👩🔬
Key for retention of women is to ensure women are in leadership/recruiting positions & have work-life balance.
🔭🧪👩🔬
The achievement of gender parity in a large astrophysics research centre - Nature Astronomy
The ASTRO 3D Centre of Excellence achieved 50% women personnel over a 5 yr time-frame by implementing a suite of evidence-based recruitment and retention initiatives. These initiatives changed how p...
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November 16, 2023 at 8:52 PM
An Australian-based astrophysics research centre (ASTRO 3D) has achieved gender parity through usage of research in sociology & psychology to develop evidence-based strategies.
Key for retention of women is to ensure women are in leadership/recruiting positions & have work-life balance.
🔭🧪👩🔬
Key for retention of women is to ensure women are in leadership/recruiting positions & have work-life balance.
🔭🧪👩🔬
An experiment with GPTs, UK & US docs on AI governance, and a draft AI policy for Australia.
I think the resulting draft points (step 7, the Yumi doc) is actually good enough for some diverse Aussies to sit around a table & discuss.
https://sts4ir.com/using-gpts-to-assist-with-ai-governance-policy/
I think the resulting draft points (step 7, the Yumi doc) is actually good enough for some diverse Aussies to sit around a table & discuss.
https://sts4ir.com/using-gpts-to-assist-with-ai-governance-policy/
November 16, 2023 at 2:24 PM
An experiment with GPTs, UK & US docs on AI governance, and a draft AI policy for Australia.
I think the resulting draft points (step 7, the Yumi doc) is actually good enough for some diverse Aussies to sit around a table & discuss.
https://sts4ir.com/using-gpts-to-assist-with-ai-governance-policy/
I think the resulting draft points (step 7, the Yumi doc) is actually good enough for some diverse Aussies to sit around a table & discuss.
https://sts4ir.com/using-gpts-to-assist-with-ai-governance-policy/
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🎤🧪 New episode: Starting to get into the weeds about things we find weird about AI Safety and RLHF. Slowly increasing the temperature on our takes.
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The Retort | As Above, So Below: Alchemy, AI Safety, and RLHF
Distilling the major events and challenges in the world of artificial intelligence and machine learning, from Thomas Krendl Gilbert and Nathan Lambert.
retortai.com
September 29, 2023 at 2:35 PM
🎤🧪 New episode: Starting to get into the weeds about things we find weird about AI Safety and RLHF. Slowly increasing the temperature on our takes.
retortai.com/episodes/as-...
retortai.com/episodes/as-...
A great article in the Financial Times by Madhumita Murgia about some current approaches to the alignment problem of GenAI. I am grateful that my views were included as well as a quote from me on the humanity of AI.
https://www.ft.com/content/f23e59a2-4cad-43a5-aed9-3aea6426d0f2
Some snaps below
https://www.ft.com/content/f23e59a2-4cad-43a5-aed9-3aea6426d0f2
Some snaps below
October 8, 2023 at 10:29 AM
A great article in the Financial Times by Madhumita Murgia about some current approaches to the alignment problem of GenAI. I am grateful that my views were included as well as a quote from me on the humanity of AI.
https://www.ft.com/content/f23e59a2-4cad-43a5-aed9-3aea6426d0f2
Some snaps below
https://www.ft.com/content/f23e59a2-4cad-43a5-aed9-3aea6426d0f2
Some snaps below
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Interestingly, now that #OpenAI has announced their red-teaming effort, I'm being asked even more: "WHAT IS REDTEAMING?" This blog post from @natolambert.bsky.social and others @huggingface.bsky.social should be helpful!
huggingface.co/blog/red-tea...
huggingface.co/blog/red-tea...
Red-Teaming Large Language Models
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
September 21, 2023 at 5:48 PM
Interestingly, now that #OpenAI has announced their red-teaming effort, I'm being asked even more: "WHAT IS REDTEAMING?" This blog post from @natolambert.bsky.social and others @huggingface.bsky.social should be helpful!
huggingface.co/blog/red-tea...
huggingface.co/blog/red-tea...
Upcoming symposium on Diversity and Inclusion in AI.
Sydney, Australia
16 October
Hosted by the national sci inst, CSIRO
http://spr.ly/6044PoYGm
I will be there (and presenting). Come along if you're in the neighbourhood.
Sydney, Australia
16 October
Hosted by the national sci inst, CSIRO
http://spr.ly/6044PoYGm
I will be there (and presenting). Come along if you're in the neighbourhood.
D&I in AI Symp 2023
The Diversity and Inclusion in AI research team at CSIRO's Data61 are organizing this event to bring together the community of research and practice, for ideation, networking, and collaboration, and t...
spr.ly
September 20, 2023 at 9:12 PM
Upcoming symposium on Diversity and Inclusion in AI.
Sydney, Australia
16 October
Hosted by the national sci inst, CSIRO
http://spr.ly/6044PoYGm
I will be there (and presenting). Come along if you're in the neighbourhood.
Sydney, Australia
16 October
Hosted by the national sci inst, CSIRO
http://spr.ly/6044PoYGm
I will be there (and presenting). Come along if you're in the neighbourhood.
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ACT 2: "Based on our analysis [in Act 1], we reject the view and associated project that we term ‘makeism’. See Box 2 for a definition." 10/n
August 6, 2023 at 11:04 PM
ACT 2: "Based on our analysis [in Act 1], we reject the view and associated project that we term ‘makeism’. See Box 2 for a definition." 10/n
Two weeks into spring and it's already 34 degrees (93 for the Americans in the room). Gonna be a scorcher of a summer.
September 16, 2023 at 5:11 AM
Two weeks into spring and it's already 34 degrees (93 for the Americans in the room). Gonna be a scorcher of a summer.
Love this opening quote in a book I just picked up about John von Neumann and "the dark foundations of our modern world and the nascent era of AI".
September 12, 2023 at 6:49 AM
Love this opening quote in a book I just picked up about John von Neumann and "the dark foundations of our modern world and the nascent era of AI".
Dog beaches of Australia. Copacabana, NSW
August 29, 2023 at 10:54 PM
Dog beaches of Australia. Copacabana, NSW
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"This view of ‘AI’ as a research field overlapping with psychology sees computational systems as theoretical tools (...) Accordingly, AI is one of the cognitive sciences (Figure 1), and for decades there was a close dialogue between the fields of AI and cognitive psychology." 3/n
August 6, 2023 at 9:09 AM
"This view of ‘AI’ as a research field overlapping with psychology sees computational systems as theoretical tools (...) Accordingly, AI is one of the cognitive sciences (Figure 1), and for decades there was a close dialogue between the fields of AI and cognitive psychology." 3/n
Great thread!
⚡️Very excited to share our new preprint "Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science", by @olivia.science @fedeadolfi.bsky.social #ronalddehaan #antoninakolokolova & #patriciarich and myself psyarxiv.com/4cbuv Highlights/summary in thread 🧵👇 1/n
August 6, 2023 at 11:00 AM
Great thread!
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Article in Nature today on the question of how to assess AI systems, including some recent work by myself and my collaborators!
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02361-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02361-7
ChatGPT broke the Turing test — the race is on for new ways to assess AI
Large language models mimic human chatter, but scientists disagree on their ability to reason. Large language models mimic human chatter, but scientists disagree on their ability to reason.
www.nature.com
July 25, 2023 at 6:13 PM
Article in Nature today on the question of how to assess AI systems, including some recent work by myself and my collaborators!
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02361-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02361-7
Hey Blueys
Does anyone know if this app works in China?
I have a family member travelling to China and I am trying to figure out what messaging app I can use to stay in touch with them without having to resort to wechat.
Thanks for advice!
Does anyone know if this app works in China?
I have a family member travelling to China and I am trying to figure out what messaging app I can use to stay in touch with them without having to resort to wechat.
Thanks for advice!
July 9, 2023 at 10:04 PM
Hey Blueys
Does anyone know if this app works in China?
I have a family member travelling to China and I am trying to figure out what messaging app I can use to stay in touch with them without having to resort to wechat.
Thanks for advice!
Does anyone know if this app works in China?
I have a family member travelling to China and I am trying to figure out what messaging app I can use to stay in touch with them without having to resort to wechat.
Thanks for advice!
Its so exciting all these new people showing up! Party was getting a bit slow, now it feels like there's more chatter in the room!
Let's pump up the tunes!
🥳
Let's pump up the tunes!
🥳
July 3, 2023 at 7:18 AM
Its so exciting all these new people showing up! Party was getting a bit slow, now it feels like there's more chatter in the room!
Let's pump up the tunes!
🥳
Let's pump up the tunes!
🥳
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"It is just as important to denounce misogyny when it comes from unexpected sources — such as senior women who have survived the system, have internalized it and continue to replicate it."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02101-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02101-x
Don’t get mad, get equal: putting an end to misogyny in science
Subtle forms of misogyny attack female leadership and coerce women to conform to conventional gender norms. It’s time to call out these behaviours, say Alison Bentley and Rachael Garrett. Subtle for...
www.nature.com
July 2, 2023 at 6:30 AM
"It is just as important to denounce misogyny when it comes from unexpected sources — such as senior women who have survived the system, have internalized it and continue to replicate it."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02101-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02101-x
I love how open these development discussions are. I am so hopeful for this platform to work well.
There's an entire policy proposal about this being actively worked on below.
I think the goal is to allow users to curate their experiences however they want, allowing communities to develop their own immune systems with nuance, while preventing the app from getting pulled from the AppStore.
I think the goal is to allow users to curate their experiences however they want, allowing communities to develop their own immune systems with nuance, while preventing the app from getting pulled from the AppStore.
proposals/0002-labeling-and-moderation-controls at main · bluesky-social/proposals
Bluesky proposal discussions. Contribute to bluesky-social/proposals development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 2, 2023 at 8:44 PM
I love how open these development discussions are. I am so hopeful for this platform to work well.
Podcast for your Monday morning commute this week:
This is perhaps the longest, and realest, podcast I've recorded on "AI" and the work its doing to expand and entrench Big Tech power. And I couldn't have done it with a more brilliant and humane crew!
https://thedigradio.com/podcast/ai-hype-machine-w-meredith-whittaker-ed-ongweso-and-sarah-west/
https://thedigradio.com/podcast/ai-hype-machine-w-meredith-whittaker-ed-ongweso-and-sarah-west/
AI Hype Machine w/ Meredith Whittaker, Ed Ongweso, and Sarah West
Featuring Meredith Whittaker, Edward Ongweso Jr., and Sarah Myers West on the mundane dystopia concealed beneath the AI hype machine.
thedigradio.com
July 2, 2023 at 8:25 PM
Podcast for your Monday morning commute this week:
Went to the art gallery today to see the Archbold prize, a famous Australian annual portraiture competition that's been going for >100years. Along with Archbold is the Wynne prize for landscape and Sulman for subject.
This was one of my favs in the Wynne section. It depicts rockholes in the desert.
This was one of my favs in the Wynne section. It depicts rockholes in the desert.
July 2, 2023 at 12:28 PM
Went to the art gallery today to see the Archbold prize, a famous Australian annual portraiture competition that's been going for >100years. Along with Archbold is the Wynne prize for landscape and Sulman for subject.
This was one of my favs in the Wynne section. It depicts rockholes in the desert.
This was one of my favs in the Wynne section. It depicts rockholes in the desert.
Ok, so I feel a bit slow in that I only just realised I can have custom feeds here. 🤩
Saying out loud for others like me that didn't notice or are new.
Like there is a DOG feed!! I can just scroll pics of doggos from around the world. Brilliant.
Is there an AI Ethics feed,anyone?
Saying out loud for others like me that didn't notice or are new.
Like there is a DOG feed!! I can just scroll pics of doggos from around the world. Brilliant.
Is there an AI Ethics feed,anyone?
July 1, 2023 at 3:12 AM
Ok, so I feel a bit slow in that I only just realised I can have custom feeds here. 🤩
Saying out loud for others like me that didn't notice or are new.
Like there is a DOG feed!! I can just scroll pics of doggos from around the world. Brilliant.
Is there an AI Ethics feed,anyone?
Saying out loud for others like me that didn't notice or are new.
Like there is a DOG feed!! I can just scroll pics of doggos from around the world. Brilliant.
Is there an AI Ethics feed,anyone?
Please read this.
1) Click through to Mia Shah-Dand's article.
2) Read it.
3) Share it on every channel.
The AI Ethics Revolution— A Brief Timeline https://medium.com/women-in-ai-ethics/the-ai-ethics-revolution-a-timeline-276593eef416
1) Click through to Mia Shah-Dand's article.
2) Read it.
3) Share it on every channel.
The AI Ethics Revolution— A Brief Timeline https://medium.com/women-in-ai-ethics/the-ai-ethics-revolution-a-timeline-276593eef416
The AI Ethics Revolution— A Brief Timeline
The myth that genius men in Silicon Valley are solely responsible for advancements in AI has been completely debunked as the contributions…
medium.com
June 28, 2023 at 10:08 PM
Please read this.
1) Click through to Mia Shah-Dand's article.
2) Read it.
3) Share it on every channel.
The AI Ethics Revolution— A Brief Timeline https://medium.com/women-in-ai-ethics/the-ai-ethics-revolution-a-timeline-276593eef416
1) Click through to Mia Shah-Dand's article.
2) Read it.
3) Share it on every channel.
The AI Ethics Revolution— A Brief Timeline https://medium.com/women-in-ai-ethics/the-ai-ethics-revolution-a-timeline-276593eef416
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June 26, 2023 at 3:29 PM
no for real, no paywall on our articles until June 30. just email registration! thanks for reading https://www.washingtonpost.com/
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fresh video on glass squid (🧪 cranchiidae) from @mbarinews.bsky.social!
also really glad to see a message in there about the potential impact of deep sea mining on midwater animals, as well as a call to action. 👏
https://youtu.be/hyq0X3nPR04
also really glad to see a message in there about the potential impact of deep sea mining on midwater animals, as well as a call to action. 👏
https://youtu.be/hyq0X3nPR04
Glass squid use an invisibility cloak to stay safe in the twilight zone
Glass squids (family Cranchiidae) live in the boundless waters of the twilight, or mesopelagic, zone. With no protective shell and nowhere to shelter, they n...
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June 27, 2023 at 6:01 PM
fresh video on glass squid (🧪 cranchiidae) from @mbarinews.bsky.social!
also really glad to see a message in there about the potential impact of deep sea mining on midwater animals, as well as a call to action. 👏
https://youtu.be/hyq0X3nPR04
also really glad to see a message in there about the potential impact of deep sea mining on midwater animals, as well as a call to action. 👏
https://youtu.be/hyq0X3nPR04
This is great fun!
It might seem like just a question of style, but research reveals fonts can dramatically shape what you communicate and how you read.
See how fonts change the way you read and write: https://wapo.st/3Py4rmc
See how fonts change the way you read and write: https://wapo.st/3Py4rmc
June 28, 2023 at 12:19 PM
This is great fun!
Just discovered an idyllic doggy paradise west of Sydney called Yarramundi Reserve.
June 24, 2023 at 3:39 AM
Just discovered an idyllic doggy paradise west of Sydney called Yarramundi Reserve.