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Focused topics on artificial intelligence bioethics by Joseph E. Thornton, M.D

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Author: Joseph Thornton MD

September 29, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Tweet by Ethan Mollick on prompt library

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Ethan Mollick
⁦‪@emollick‬⁩
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A prompt library for experimental use in education: github.com/microsoft/prom…

Microsoft* put together a prompt library for GPT-4 for educators, students, & admin using some of our prompts as a basis. Add your own!

*We do not take any compensation from them or any other AI company pic.twitter.com/SA8oeO4Pho

9/28/23, 3:41 PM

Joseph Thornton

September 29, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Tweet by Ethan Mollick on data science challenge. KEY PAPER

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Ethan Mollick
⁦‪@emollick‬⁩
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Every professional society & academic field needs to be doing what this paper on data science does

Test the ability of AI to do the work (over 90% on exams, the field is “on the verge of a paradigm shift”)

And suggest how to change training as a result. arxiv.org/pdf/2307.02792… pic.twitter.com/wcZNBx4mMF

9/28/23, 10:10 AM

Joseph Thornton

September 28, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Tweet by NEJM on AI series

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NEJM
⁦‪@NEJM‬⁩
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📢 New AI in Medicine series article

Challenges at the interface of medical statistics and AI are population inference vs. prediction, generalizability, reproducibility and interpretation of evidence, and stability and statistical guarantees. nej.md/48umvVq pic.twitter.com/VHR1ioM5JQ

9/27/23, 5:40 PM

Joseph Thornton

September 27, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Student Use Cases for AI | Harvard Business Publishing Education

https://hbsp.harvard.edu/inspiring-minds/student-use-cases-for-ai

Joseph Thornton

September 26, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Tweet by Sven introduce technology ethics

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Sven Nyholm
⁦‪@SvenNyholm‬⁩
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Launching today: the brand new This is Technology Ethics podcast. My friend/collaborator ⁦‪@JohnDanaher‬⁩ & I discuss themes from my book This is Technology Ethics (⁦‪@PhilosophersEye‬⁩), in 9 episodes, the two first of which are available now! #technology #ethics
technologyethicspod.wordpress.com pic.twitter.com/Abp5WqaP0a
9/25/23, 10:18 AM

Joseph Thornton

September 26, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

AI. Self degradation.

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Ate-a-Pi
⁦‪@8teAPi‬⁩
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Vicious Self-Degradation

> you Google
> Quora spots query and id’s as frequent
> Quora uses ChatGPT to generate answer
> ChatGPT hallucinates
> Google picks up Quora answer as highest probability correct answer
> ChatGPT hallucination is now canonical Google answer pic.twitter.com/qInLfIMGtc

9/26/23, 12:07 AM

Joseph Thornton

September 25, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Tweet by Ethan Mollick on manuscript. Teaching prompts

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We just updated our paper on assigning AI to students, giving prompts, as well as potential handouts and discussions over risks and benefits.

The new revision is mostly small corrections, but also updates to how we display the logic of the prompts we use. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… pic.twitter.com/J5E4msxHXA

9/24/23, 4:06 PM

Joseph Thornton

September 22, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Tweet by Sherry Turkle. MIT study emotional impact generative AI

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Sherry Turkle
⁦‪@STurkle‬⁩
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So thrilled to be awarded this grant to study the emotional effects of generative AI. MIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of generative AI | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology news.mit.edu/2023/mit-schol…
9/22/23, 10:06 AM

Joseph Thornton

September 22, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Tweet by Stanford HAI in high school

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Stanford HAI
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In collaboration with teachers, Stanford scholars developed curriculum to teach basic AI concepts across multiple high school subject areas. The project, called CRAFT, provides classroom-ready resources for any school. stanford.io/48suimA
9/22/23, 6:04 PM

Joseph Thornton

September 22, 2023 Joseph Thornton MD

Tweet by reduce a I hallucinations

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elvis
⁦‪@omarsar0‬⁩
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Chain-of-Verification reduces Hallucination in LLMs

Develops a method to enable LLMs to “deliberate” on responses to correct mistakes.

Steps:
1) draft initial response
2) plan verification questions to fact-check the draft
3) answer questions independently to avoid bias from… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… pic.twitter.com/IuC4uVGKAA

9/21/23, 12:52 PM

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