AI training cost estimates from the Stanford 2024 AI Index Report:

Original transformer model - $930
GPT-3 - $4.3M
GPT-4 - $78.4M
Gemini Ultra - $191.4M

PLOS ONE retracts a paper with clear but undisclosed evidence of ChatGPT use.
journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
Nearly 100 such papers here.
retractionwatch.com/papers-and-pee…

Hey, students! The CALS Career Services Student Internship Fund provides support payments of up to $5,000 to enable CALS undergraduate students to take advantage of internships — paid or unpaid. Learn more at apply now at cals.wisc.edu/academics/unde….

Honored to speak to (and meet) the very impressive 2024 cohort of UW–Madison The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi inductees and their families today ... and to join them as an honorary member along with UW–MadisonCALS First Year Program Manager Liza Chang. #onwisconsin #uwgrad

🇩🇪 Bayern Munich & Borussia Dortmund in the #UCL semifinal - and they’re not even the two best teams in Germany this season. Not bad for a league which is apparently being held back by the 50+1 rule and desperately needs private equity investment to compete. There is another way.

Most importantly, we need to evaluate metrics and interventions empirically with reliable social science. Otherwise, we’ll just “pied-piper” academia toward the next iteration of dysfunctional #openscience tools, as our paper led by Isabelle Freiling outlines: academic.oup.com/joc/article/71…

“Most concerns around TikTok focus on the fact that as a Chinese company, ByteDance is required to share any data deemed relevant to Chinese national security with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) upon request.” protonvpn.com/blog/is-tiktok…

Today's @cnn coverage of O.J. Simpson's passing makes the media circus surrounding the original Bronco chase three decades ago look like quality journalism. Some things in media will never change. people.com/oj-simpson-199…

First rule of defending: arms behind the back. Does Google DeepMind need better training data? ;-)

“never grow up” wsj.com/lifestyle/work…

Vitamin A deficiency blinds up to half a million children annually.

But this banana, high in vitamin A, is being opposed because it's genetically modified.

It is public domain, no patent fees.

HT Simon Maechling
thecooldown.com/green-tech/sup…

A review in Nature, by Candice Odgers, asserts that I have mistaken correlation for causation and that “there is no evidence that using these platforms is rewiring children’s brains or driving an epidemic of mental illness.” Both of these assertions are untrue.

I'm not much persuaded by Haidt's analysis, and I retweeted the Nature review. However, on reflection, the review is very uncharitable and unpersuasive. It doesn't engage with Haidt's arguments, and its identification of 'real causes' is very implausible and overconfident.

“All [retractions] had been linked to the “unethical practice of buying or selling authorship on research papers,” known as “authorship for sale,” in which authors, during the review process, sell coauthorship to people who have not contributed to the research.”

Congratulations LSC professor dietram a. scheufele for receiving a 2024 Hilldale award in recognition of his teaching excellence, cutting edge research and service. Each year, UW–Madison honors four faculty members with the Hilldale Award.

Learn more at: news.wisc.edu/meet-the-winne…

“Other states are going to be watching and learning.” What could possibly go wrong? theguardian.com/world/2023/dec… #AI #scicomm #scipol

Lots of people in CS are (almost surely) GPT-ing their peer reviews
arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183

A disappointing loss in Durham, but what a well-fought battle by Wisconsin Hockey. You played with such heart and skill all season, including today. Until next year!

There's no such thing as an AI startup, just guys with models competing to be absorbed by one of the three actual AI companies 😇