seanmcgregor @seanmcgregor

PhD in ML, researcher of AI social impacts, NNs, and speech. Working to make AI deployments safer. Views are my own. seanbmcgregor.com 32.782650,-117.120438 Joined June 2008

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seanmcgregor @seanmcgregor

4 days ago

I've noticed a trend of researchers who need other researchers have adopted the Klarna strategy of "agree to study now, execute study over time." Me: "Sure, you are only asking for 1 hour a week for the next 26 weeks, that's practically free!"

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seanmcgregor @seanmcgregor

3 weeks ago

For the old school RL researchers. #MountainCar #ToyDomains youtube.com/shorts/oG7wWoc…

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Rune Kvist @RuneKvist

2 months ago

Insurance is an underrated way to unlock secure AI progress. Insurers are incentivized to truthfully quantify and track risks: if they overstate risks, they get outcompeted; if they understate risks, their payouts bankrupt them. 1/9

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seanmcgregor @seanmcgregor

3 months ago

Remember when public cell phone ringing was a constant annoyance? It took ~10 years for social norms, technology settings, and human operation to reasonably solve "ringing." AI now brings thousands of different forms of "ringing," each requiring cross-sectional effort.

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seanmcgregor @seanmcgregor

3 months ago

Calling all AI incident researchers (and AI deployment researchers more generally)! Spend a few days in Singapore exploring the practicalities of real world AI deployment. aaai.org/conference/aaa…

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seanmcgregor @seanmcgregor

4 months ago

Britain and Canada supplied crucial elements of the early US nuclear weapons program. "...in July 1945 British permission required by the agreement was given for the use of nuclear weapons against Japan." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Ag… #MiningWikipedia

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seanmcgregor @seanmcgregor

5 months ago

Someone needs to run a study of whether klaxons make people safer depending on when they are received relative to local shaking. I jumped under my desk, but My phone gave the emergency earthquake alert right when the shaking started and it was a bit distracting.

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seanmcgregor @seanmcgregor

6 months ago

As far as I can tell, people are applying the term "agentic AI" as a fancy way of saying "AI that does stuff." Everyone imagines that to be something slightly (or vastly) different in technological realization and capability.

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Eren Kurshan @Kr83875

7 months ago

Join us at IAAI-25 for an exciting program in Philadelphia on Feb 27th! The Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-25) will showcase successful applications and novel uses of AI, highlighting cutting-edge innovations.

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seanmcgregor @seanmcgregor

7 months ago

Strange feeling: seeing a ~trillion dollars in market cap get wiped out because the wider world figured out things that were already known within your research community.

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seanmcgregor @seanmcgregor

10 months ago

Health insurers know when you see a new specialist after appointments within a specialty. Dataset I want: medical specialty doctor churn. It would really help me figure out which podiatrists are good...

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seanmcgregor @seanmcgregor

11 months ago

The models are answering a different question more common in training data. Add "total" to these queries and performance will improve by resolving the ambiguity. But agreed, models are not mechanically counting letters in the manner humans do. youtube.com/shorts/7pQrMAe…

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seanmcgregor @seanmcgregor

a year ago

Defending the capacity for an anonymous human-centered internet from the deluge of bots.

Steven Adler @sjgadler

a year ago

Defending the capacity for an anonymous human-centered internet from the deluge of bots.

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seanmcgregor @seanmcgregor

a year ago

I was just visiting NYC and searched* Google for the cocktails named for the city's 5 boroughs. I am enjoying the implication that "Cape Code" and "BLT" are city boroughs. *I was **searching** not **asking**. But I still got this fun answer.

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seanmcgregor @seanmcgregor

a year ago

This explains in simple terms my increasing alarm for how we are building the future.

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seanmcgregor @seanmcgregor

a year ago

I have a huge podcast backlog that Google is helpfully eliminating by sunsetting Google Podcasts today. Definitely not porting my listen list over to YouTube as suggested.

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seanmcgregor @seanmcgregor

a year ago

My ISP is paying me $25/month (in discounts) for 2 years to store a router I don't use because if you only have one product with them they will increase the price. I am setting <<Remind me in two years>> on all the things.

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Imagining the Digital Future @ITDFuture

2 years ago

The Impact of #AI by 2040: Millions of people will be dedicated to safely managing AI. Thanks to @seanmcgregor for contributing to the report. Read his essay: imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/ai-requires-ne…