Arne Raulf

Head of Department at Institute for AI Safety and Security (DLR)/ #ML #AI #OpenSource, Creator #OpenVibSpec/ Tweets are my own

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

By assuming that technical talent is fungible and interchangeable, a previously-successful engineering company will be run into the ground...
...along with a few of its own products and everyone on board.

It's astonishing how certain types of managers will prefer less-talented-but-more-controlable scientists and engineers over more brilliant and creative ones who may be more difficult to control, somewhat unpredictable, and sometimes annoying.

Here is the thing: scientific and technical breakthroughs are unpredictable by management, and progress often comes from folks with unconventional personalities and backgrounds.

As I was told by my management at Bell Labs: "You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps" 😄

[Wisdom Theory @wisdom_theory]

Daniel Kahneman, who changed psychology and economics forever, dies at 90.

Thanks for everything.

We remember him in 10 great quotes:

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

Happy birthday to programming-language pioneer Ken Thompson.
💻 designer of Unix
💻 inventor of B (predecessor to C)
💻 co-inventor of Google's Go
https://t.co/cT3FZ8g2EV

Image v/Bell Laboratories

[David Krueger 🦥 ⏸️ ⏹️ ⏪ @DavidSKrueger]

I'm looking for:
- PhD students
- postdocs
- and potentially interns and research assistants (like a post-doc for those who haven't got a PhD)

Potential post-docs should reach out ASAP and strongly consider applying for funding from FLI; this would need to happen quite soon (probably within 1-2 weeks) for admin reasons.

https://t.co/HBYE1DIAi8

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

IBM & Meta are launching the AI Alliance to advance *open* & reliable AI.
The list of over 50 founding members from industry, government, and academia include AMD, Anyscale, CERN, Hugging Face, the Linux Foundation, NASA....
https://t.co/NdcMb7GMXv

[Chris Colose @CColose]

In the near future, peer review will be replaced by AI-review

[Daniel Bachmann @Bachmann_h2]

...so sieht es aus, wenn an einem TAG ungefähr der durchschnittliche JÄHRLICHE Niederschlag, den wir in Deitschland haben ( ca 800 mm/a) herunterkommt.
Im trockenen Raum um Magdeburg mit ca 400 mm/a dauert es sogar ZWEI Jahre.
Nur mal so zur Einordung!

#Griechenland #hochwasser

[Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_]

Wow! Gasteinerfall Waterfall in the city center of Bad Gastein (Salzburg), Austria, with huge volumes of water flowing down it due to the heavy rainfall over the last 24 hours.

Credit: Ronny Katsch

[Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_]

From Record-Breaking Heat to Early Snow.

In a matter of four days, the municipality of Zermatt, Switzerland, at an elevation of 1,638 meters (5,374 feet), experienced its hottest August day on record with 31.2°C (88.2°F) and an unusual pre-season heavy snow event.

[WIRED @WIRED]

Mike Kirkland is an invasive-animal biologist who manages the South Florida Water Management District’s Python Elimination Program. His team patrols roads like this one beside Big Cypress National Preserve. The team recently removed their 8,000th python.

📷: Patrick Campbell

[Nurder Koch @NurderK]

„Weltweit sind derzeit 559 Millionen Kinder von Hitzewellen betroffen. Bei einem Anstieg der Erderwärmung um 1,7 Grad werden in den nächsten Jahrzehnten noch mehr Kinder darunter leiden. Über 2 Milliarden Kinder auf der Welt werden bis 2050 Hitzewellen ausgesetzt sein.“
@UNICEF

[Kevin Patrick Murphy @sirbayes]

The trilogy is complete! My "Advanced Topics" book is officially released today. Buy it on Amazon, or get it for free at https://t.co/yWK8zMbMRA.

[Shubhendu Trivedi @_onionesque]

von Neumann & Morgenstern worked on their game theory treatise in marathon sessions from breakfast to late night, which greatly annoyed von Neumann's wife Klára. She declared she would only tolerate it further if game theory "included an elephant." The elephant appeared on pg 64.

[Marinka Zitnik @marinkazitnik]

Excited to share our @Nature paper on the role of AI in scientific discovery 🌟🔬 #AI4Science

AI is transforming discovery across sciences 🤖🔍 From hypothesis generation to data interpretation, it is reshaping all stages of research in ways we could not imagine using traditional methods alone

https://t.co/70MrHsjsEe

Scientific process can benefit tremendously from powerful AI methods. The past decade has seen breakthroughs:

We can leverage vast amounts of unlabeled data thanks to self-supervised learning

Generative AI is a game-changer in molecular design

Analyzing diverse data modalities like images and sequences sparks innovation like never before

Grand challenges remain as we venture into uncharted AI territory:

1⃣ Implementation: Self-driving labs and autonomous discovery, open data and data re-use, transparency and practical considerations

2⃣ Machine learning foundations: Causality and OOD generalization, multimodal learning, model understanding, knowledge-grounded models

3⃣ Changes in scientific enterprise: Conduct of science, big science, stewardship and education of workforce, misuse and safety

Join us at the 4th AI4Science meeting @NeurIPSConf later this year to continue these conversations @AI_for_Science

Grateful for a stellar team of brilliant first authors, Hanchen Wang, @TianfanFu @YuanqiD

Thankful to collaborators across 38 institutions and three continents @Harvard @Stanford @MIT @GoogleDeepMind @HarvardMed @MSFTResearch @Cornell @BrownUniversity @Cambridge_Uni @Caltech @GeorgiaTech @UofIllinois @Princeton @CarnegieMellon @nyuniversity @mbzuai @Mila_Quebec @nvidia @HEC_Montreal @genentech

Thanks to A. Brandt @HarvardHistSci for sharing lessons from history and philosophy of science

@AnimaAnandkumar @cwcoley @WenhaoGao1 @KexinHuang5 @payal_chandak @Shengchao_Liu Peter Van Katwyk @andreeadeac22 @KarianneBergen @ZimingLiu11 Carla Gomes @cosmo_shirley @pushmeet Joan Lasenby @jure Tie-Yan Liu @arjunmanrai @deboramarks @rbhar90 Le Song @jimeng @tangjianpku @PetarV_93 @wellingmax Linfeng Zhang Yoshua Bengio

[Ruhr-Universität Bochum @ruhrunibochum]

Graue Zellen aufgepasst! Der Neuro-#Podcast #KannsteVergessen des #SFB1280 geht in die dritte Runde. In Folge 1 dreht sich alles um #KI: Wie lernen Maschinen? Wie immer mit Slam-Poetry. Verfasst von Rainer Holl, nicht von #ChatGPT. ^lb https://t.co/9m8iLCXbeL

[Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen]

Norbert Wiener on "Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation" (1960): https://t.co/HxVWDYwafQ

"As machines learn they may develop unforseen strategies at rates that baffle their programmers"

[Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen]

Indeed, I suspect von Neumann ultimately thought even that would not be enough, and that maybe something like a surveillance society would be necessary(!) By contrast, Wiener is much more sedate

[Felix Petersen @FHKPetersen]

We are excited to announce 46 accepted papers for the Differentiable Almost Everything Workshop @ ICML 2023!

Check out the exciting papers @ https://t.co/0TOHp5zQih

Congratulations to all the authors 🎉

We are looking forward to seeing you next week (Fri, July 28) @icmlconf

[Norbert Röttgen @n_roettgen]

Hochinteressanter Besuch am DLR-Standort in Sankt Augustin! Die beiden Institute für KI-Sicherheit & für den Schutz terrestrischer Infrastrukturen leisten interdisziplinäre Forschungsarbeit auf höchstem Niveau.

[Shek Azizi @AziziShekoofeh]

Thrilled to announce Med-PaLM, our medical large language model is published in @Nature, today.

Extremely excited for the possibilities this unlocks!

https://t.co/su5orwRjZ5