New UL2 model

• UL2 20B beats GPT-3 175B on zero-shot SuperGLUE
• Public 20B model
• Also finetunes really well
• Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05131

Book

• Maps and Loss of Self
• Thinking about adding something about music, but that may be a separate thing
• Asymmetrical perceptions of partisan political bots
  • Political bots are social media algorithms that impersonate political actors and interact with other users, aiming to influence public opinion. This study investigates the ability to differentiate bots with partisan personas from humans on Twitter. Our online experiment (N = 656) explores how various characteristics of the participants and of the stimulus profiles bias recognition accuracy. The analysis reveals asymmetrical partisan-motivated reasoning, in that conservative profiles appear to be more confusing and Republican participants perform less well in the recognition task. Moreover, Republican users are more likely to confuse conservative bots with humans, whereas Democratic users are more likely to confuse conservative human users with bots. We discuss implications for how partisan identities affect motivated reasoning and how political bots exacerbate political polarization.

SBIRs

• 9:15 standup
• Make RCSNode