Tag: decision-making
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Large Language Models as Moral Experts?
The general consensus among most people has been that human values will forever be the domain of human beings, and not AI. This paper seems to suggest that moral judgement may not be off-limits to machines after all.
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Weekly digest 23
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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What would Claude do?
Here’s another example of a different way to think about language models: ask it for concrete advice when you’re faced with a difficult decision. In particular, the kinds of decisions that need to integrate lots of context, many variables, with high levels of uncertainty, and high-stakes outcomes. The kinds of decisions that, even with the…
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Weekly digest (17-21 May 2021)
Checco, A., Bracciale, L., Loreti, P., Pinfield, S., & Bianchi, G. (2021, May 17). Can AI be used ethically to assist peer review? Impact of Social Sciences. …an AI tool which screens papers prior to peer review could be used to advise authors to rework their paper before it is sent on for peer review.…
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Let students negotiate the deadlines that suit them
Most of my assignments include a peer review component where students send their initial draft to two peers who review it and give feedback on how the assignment can be improved. I provide guidance on what effective feedback looks like, with an emphasis on helping peers submit their best work; it’s about building each other…
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AI outperforms clinicians in triaging post-operative patients for ICUe.
Artificial intelligence correctly triaged 41 of the 50 patients in the study (82%). Surgeons had an accuracy triage rate of 70% (35 patients), intensivists 64% (32 patients), and anaesthesiologists 58% (29 patients). The number of incorrect triage decisions was lowest for AI (18%), followed by 30% for surgeons, 36% for intensivists, and 42% for anaesthesiologists.…
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WCPT poster: Introduction to machine learning in healthcare
My poster and list of references for the WCPT 2019 conference in Geneva.
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Giving algorithms a sense of uncertainty could make them more ethical
The algorithm could handle this uncertainty by computing multiple solutions and then giving humans a menu of options with their associated trade-offs. Say the AI system was meant to help make medical decisions. Instead of recommending one treatment over another, it could present three possible options: one for maximizing patient life span, another for minimizing…