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Quantifying ChatGPT’s gender bias
Benchmarks allow us to dig deeper into what causes biases and what can be done about it
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Sayash Kapoor
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Arvind Narayanan
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I set up a ChatGPT voice interface for my 3-year old. Here’s how it went.
Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
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Arvind Narayanan
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A misleading open letter about sci-fi AI dangers ignores the real risks
Misinformation, labor impact, and safety are all risks. But not in the way the letter implies.
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Sayash Kapoor
 and 
Arvind Narayanan
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OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models
LLMs have become privately-controlled research infrastructure
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Sayash Kapoor
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Arvind Narayanan
10
GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question
OpenAI may have tested on the training data. Besides, human benchmarks are meaningless for bots.
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Arvind Narayanan
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Sayash Kapoor
21
What is algorithmic amplification and why should we care?
A symposium and a primer on social media recommendation algorithms
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Arvind Narayanan
Artists can now opt out of generative AI. It’s not enough.
Opting out is the latest example of generative AI developers externalizing costs.
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Sayash Kapoor
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Arvind Narayanan
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AI Snake Oil
AI Snake Oil
What makes AI click, what makes it fail, and how to tell the difference

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