mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I am a CS Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University. I investigate technical promises made by overzealous proponents and often find that they fall short.
Currently looking at machine learning failures: hype, overoptimism, and reproducibility, and writing a book on AI Snake Oil.
I'm ecstatic to share that preorders are now open for the AI Snake Oil book! The book will be released on September 24, 2024.
@randomwalker@mastodon.social and I have been working on this for the past two years, and we can't wait to share it with the world.
Preorder: https://princeton.press/gpl5al2h
If you have been anywhere near AI discourse in the last few months, you might have heard that AI poses an existential threat to humanity.
In today's Wall Street Journal, @randomwalker@mastodon.social and I argue that claims of x-risk rest on a tower of fallacies: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-risk-humanity-experts-thoughts-4b271757
No paywall link: https://archive.is/Jv60s
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When @randomwalker@mastodon.social and I started our AI snake oil newsletter a year ago, we weren't sure if anyone would read it. Thank you to the 13,000 of you who read our scholarship and analysis on AI week after week.