I have worked on #NLProc for ~30 years; until recently most people did not understand or appreciate the nature of my work. Then came #ChatGPT. I have been sharing some thoughts on this technology, and I am pleased to share them with you too! youtu.be/gbznDIf13qM

The incidentalome continues to grow and cost $$$$ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

As I said at #WCRI2024 @WCRIFoundation and last week at @ANU_CPAS, #GenAI will enable bad actors in science to accelerate their contamination of scientific literature. This has broad repercussions for trust in science, and there is a significant human toll, as reflected here.

Every time I catch myself starting a sentence with "Certainly, ..." I worry that the recipient will think I wrote it with ChatGPT. #notabot

Today's NYT article by Yuval Harari repeats "GPT-4 Hired Task Rabbit Worker to Solve Captcha" story & concludes "This incident demonstrated that GPT-4 has the equivalent of a 'theory of mind'." Time to re-up my fact-check of this oft-repeated story. ⬇️

My new article: A new ‘AI scientist’ can write science papers without any human input. Here’s why that’s a problem. Philosopher of science interested in chatting? DM me. theconversation.com/a-new-ai… via @ConversationEDU

Thank you to @ISCB (International Society for Computational Biology) for publishing this wonderful article about me! Check it out here: academic.oup.com/bioinformat…

Wonderful to meet the students of @Tsinghua_Uni visiting @RMITComputing and @AdmsCentre on Friday. Thank you to @SachinPC10 @Marwah_k @damiano10 Yueqing and Kun for organising. Note to self, our group needs a flag :) @mzhang_bj

Huge congratulations on this award @suinleelab ! So well deserved and such an inspiring talk!

It was a true privilege for me to introduce Professor Su-In Lee @suinleelab for her #ISMB2024 @ISCB Innovator Award keynote. Well-deserved recognition for her work. Congratulations!

🚨 BREAKING: Today, July 12th, the EU AI Act is published in the Official Journal, and the enforcement countdown starts. Here's what you must add to your calendar: 📌 August 1st, 2024: The AI Act will enter into force; 📌 February 2025: Chapters I (general provisions) & II (prohibited AI systems) will apply; 📌 August 2025: Chapter III Section 4 (notifying authorities), Chapter V (general purpose AI models), Chapter VII (governance), Chapter XII (confidentiality and penalties), and Article 78 (confidentiality) will apply, except for Article 101 (fines for General Purpose AI providers); 📌 August 2026: the whole AI Act applies, except for Article 6(1) & corresponding obligations (one of the categories of high-risk AI systems); 📌 August 2027 - Article 6(1) & corresponding obligations apply. ➡ The EU AI Act's official description is: "Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending Regulations (EC) No 300/2008, (EU) No 167/2013, (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1139 and (EU) 2019/2144 and Directives 2014/90/EU, (EU) 2016/797 and (EU) 2020/1828 (Artificial Intelligence Act) Text with EEA relevance." ➡ Below is the official link to the law: don't forget to bookmark it. ➡ The AI, Tech & Privacy Academy's summer cohort of the EU AI Act Bootcamp starts NEXT WEEK. If you want to master the AI Act's main concepts and rules and get ready for regulatory challenges in AI, you can't miss it (link below). ➡ To stay up to date with the latest developments in AI policy & regulation, join 28,500 people who subscribe to my weekly newsletter.

Love that @fionabrinkman is highlighting the importance of role models, diversity, and inclusion, with a shout-out to @terrygaaster for being visible at the 1998 ISMB right here in Montreal #ISMB2024

Opening keynote from @fionabrinkman on Sensitive Sustainable Science. Brilliant to start #ISMB2024 on an #openscience topic, also covering the FAIR and CARE principles

Let’s go! Ready for #ISMB2024 In Montreal!

Thanks to @darakerr for talking with me about the high climate cost of generative AI, Google's reneging on its climate goals, and the real existential crisis facing us on NPR Morning Edition today. npr.org/2024/07/10/nx-s1-502…

Researchers say AI could police AI to correct hallucinations. RMIT's @karinv says "fighting fire with fire" may have limits: singularityhub.com/2024/06/2…

. @karinv explains how LLMs are being used to weed out factually incorrect LLM responses called confabulations go.nature.com/4ccr0VV

I am of course attending #ISMB2024 in Montreal from July 12-16, as one of the co-Chairs! I invite you to join us if you are interested in bioinformatics or computational biology. Use code Karin10 for a 10% discount! 🚀 invt.io/1txbqg52fhw

I was invited by @NatureNV to comment on a paper recently published in @Nature by @seb_far @janundnik @_lorenzkuhn @yaringal on "Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy". My piece on LLMs "Fighting fire with fire" is here: rdcu.be/dLkVv

The last plenary @karinv @RMIT describes the "the good, the bad and the ugly" on #generativeAI. A fantastic overview of everything that is wrong, and great with genAI. The possibilities are endless, and they are both scary and exciting!

@karinv What's next for Al in Research? ● Better Al tools! ● TARGETED to specific tasks ● multi-modal applications ● text, images, sequences, structured data ● privacy-preserving modelling at scale ● systematic review automation #WCRI2024