One of the biggest (credible) fears of evolving AI technology is whether it will displace human jobs. The popular opinion is that now that generative models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 can produce context aware, coherent and fluent text at a near-human-level, a number of jobs can be replaced by comparatively…

Last week I had the pleasure of attending AIES’23 in Montreal. For those of you who are new to the field it is one of the conferences that is convened each year by researchers from different fields including computer science, law and policy, the social sciences, ethics and philosophy. Their…

Hi! I’m Ruchi! “Why do you want to do a Ph.D.?” I was asked this question initially when I was considering applying for a Ph.D. It was a big decision I had to take in the second year of my master’s degree at the Pennsylvania State University. As I pondered…

In the era of expansive language models like GPT-3 and ChatGPT, exploring how these models represent and perceive various countries has become a crucial endeavor. Heyo! My name is Pranav Venkit and I am a Ph.D. candidate at Pennsylvania State University pursuing my research in the Ethics and Biases of NLP models. In this short article, I will put down in words the analysis and insights of my works that look into understanding how a…

What’s my PhD superpower? Explaining why seemingly simple things are super complicated. This is part 2 of our PhD superpower series. To know more about Unlearning a PhD read part 1 by Sanjana Gautam. 💡 TLDR: I am a 5th year PhD student from Penn State University. I work on speciality search engines (how…

What is my PhD Superpower? It is the coffee tolerance I have developed ! Withstanding the complete truth in the statement, there is more to a PhD than just coffee and work. The projects that you get to work on and the people you get to meet are few of…