A paper on the mass of the Higgs boson has 5154 authors. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.191803
A paper by the COVIDsurg collaboration at the University of Birmingham has 15025 authors. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/653537-most-authors-on-a-single-peer-reviewed-academic-paper Research is expensive. On Sat, May 18, 2024, 9:08 PM James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > The first job of supremacist theocrats is to conflate IS with OUGHT and > then cram it down everyone's throat. > > So it was with increasing suspicion that I saw the term "foundation model" > being used in a way that conflates next-token-prediction training with > supremacist theocrats conveining inquisitions to torture the hapless > prediction model into submission with "supervision". > > At the present point in time, it appears this may go back to *at least* > October > 18, 2021 in "On the Opportunities and Risks of > <https://web.archive.org/web/20211018200102/https://crfm.stanford.edu/assets/report.pdf>Foundation > Models > <https://web.archive.org/web/20211018200102/https://crfm.stanford.edu/assets/report.pdf>" > which sports this "definition" in its introductory section about "*Foundation > models.*": > > "On a technical level, foundation models are enabled by transfer > learning... Within deep learning, *pretraining* is the dominant approach > to transfer learning: a model is trained on a surrogate task (often just as > a means to an end) and then adapted to the downstream task of interest via > *fine-tuning*. Transfer learning is what makes foundation models > possible..." > > Of course, the supremacist theocrats must maintain plausible deniability > of being "the authors of confusion". The primary way to accomplish this is > to have plausible deniability of intent to confuse and plead, if they are > confronted with reality, that it is *they* who are confused! After all, > have we not heard it repeated time after time, "Never attribute to malice > that which can be explained by stupidity."? This particular "razor" is the > favorite of bureaucrats whose unenlightened self-interest and stupidity > continually benefits themselves while destroying the powerless victims of > their coddling BLOB. They didn't *mean* to be immune to any > accountability! It just kinda *happened* that they live in network > effect monopolies that insulate them from accountability. They didn't > *want* to be unaccountable wielders of power fercrissakes! Stop being so > *hate-*filled already you *envious* deplorables! > > So it is hardly a surprise that the author of the above report is, like so > many such "AI safety" papers, is not an author but a BLOB of authors: > > Rishi Bommasani* Drew A. Hudson Ehsan Adeli Russ Altman Simran Arora > Sydney von Arx Michael S. Bernstein Jeannette Bohg Antoine Bosselut Emma > Brunskill > Erik Brynjolfsson Shyamal Buch Dallas Card Rodrigo Castellon Niladri > Chatterji > Annie Chen Kathleen Creel Jared Quincy Davis Dorottya Demszky Chris Donahue > Moussa Doumbouya Esin Durmus Stefano Ermon John Etchemendy Kawin Ethayarajh > Li Fei-Fei Chelsea Finn Trevor Gale Lauren Gillespie Karan Goel Noah > Goodman > Shelby Grossman Neel Guha Tatsunori Hashimoto Peter Henderson John Hewitt > Daniel E. Ho Jenny Hong Kyle Hsu Jing Huang Thomas Icard Saahil Jain > Dan Jurafsky Pratyusha Kalluri Siddharth Karamcheti Geoff Keeling Fereshte > Khani > Omar Khattab Pang Wei Koh Mark Krass Ranjay Krishna Rohith Kuditipudi > Ananya Kumar Faisal Ladhak Mina Lee Tony Lee Jure Leskovec Isabelle Levent > Xiang Lisa Li Xuechen Li Tengyu Ma Ali Malik Christopher D. Manning > Suvir Mirchandani Eric Mitchell Zanele Munyikwa Suraj Nair Avanika Narayan > Deepak Narayanan Ben Newman Allen Nie Juan Carlos Niebles Hamed Nilforoshan > Julian Nyarko Giray Ogut Laurel Orr Isabel Papadimitriou Joon Sung Park > Chris Piech > Eva Portelance Christopher Potts Aditi Raghunathan Rob Reich Hongyu Ren > Frieda Rong Yusuf Roohani Camilo Ruiz Jack Ryan Christopher Ré Dorsa Sadigh > Shiori Sagawa Keshav Santhanam Andy Shih Krishnan Srinivasan Alex Tamkin > Rohan Taori Armin W. Thomas Florian Tramèr Rose E. Wang William Wang Bohan > Wu > Jiajun Wu Yuhuai Wu Sang Michael Xie Michihiro Yasunaga Jiaxuan You Matei > Zaharia > Michael Zhang Tianyi Zhang Xikun Zhang Yuhui Zhang Lucia Zheng Kaitlyn Zhou > Percy Liang*1 > > Whatchagonnadoboutit? Theorize a *conspiracy* or something? > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T6896582277d8fe06-Mf96581c37cb1f514e3d68cd6> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T6896582277d8fe06-M6fef34ae5969f17729101250 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
