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News, updates, and editorials from our DSRI expert researchers.
Learning from the Past – The AI Incident Database
Tue Mar 05 2024
DSRI partners with TheCollab to continue the AI Incident Database.
How to Understand Large Language Models through Improv
Tue Mar 28 2023
On February 16th, the New York Times published Kevin Roose's conversation with Microsoft's chatbot wherein the chatbot attempted to end Mr. Roose's marriage. A deeper examination of the chatlog reveals the bot conformed to technical intuition not broadly shared by people outside the machine learning engineering community.
Is your AI a "Clever Hans"?
Fri Feb 17 2023
What a counting horse can teach us about evaluating AI tools and systems. Clever Hans, the horse mathematician, was a worldwide sensation in 1904. With skill comparable to a human grade schooler, the horse solved basic arithmetic problems. “Ten minus six?” His owner would ask. ”<stamp>, <stamp>, <stamp>, <stamp>”. Clever Hans would stamp the ground four times to give his answer.