Amanda Stent

Davis AI at Colby College. All opinions expressed here are my own; I do not speak for my employer or associates. they/she.

not all those who wander are lost.

[Amanda Stent @astent]

Chickadee, Maine, March 24 (yes still snow)

[Amanda Stent @astent]

Lots of discussion on social media about AI. Meanwhile wind and rain (exacerbated by climate change) take out power to half my state, and wonderful power company workers come from across the country to fix. *Humans* cause problems and (usually other) humans can fix them.

[Lisa Dunlap @lisabdunlap]

[1/5] Introducing VisDiff - an #AI tool that describes differences in image sets with natural language.

VisDiff can summarize model failures, compare models, find nuanced dataset differences, discover what makes an image memorable, and so much more!

https://t.co/KsWevDnDg2

[Francesco Orabona @bremen79]

“Many articles [...] that compare with weak baselines, exaggerate claims, fail to report full computational costs, completely ignore limitations of the work, or otherwise fail to provide sufficient information, data or code to reproduce the results.”

https://t.co/MFdZSl9jxF

[Amanda Stent @astent]

2/2 There are over 150 years of bird observations and you can help! Check out ebird or https://t.co/VVZWVAyAnh

(I tried; I can't find anything ethically bad about this! Just point your camera away from others!)

[Amanda Stent @astent]

The annual theme for @DavisInstAI this year is PLAY! so I'd like to share an application of AI that gives me joy and may contribute to a better understanding of climate change. This nifty CV-enabled bird feeder allows me and many others to monitor birds in our backyards. 1/2

[MMitchell @mmitchell_ai]

New from me, and I think important:
How do we regulate AI?
Here's how:
https://t.co/7gkfBDrFOm
Even includes some charts to fill out, for direct operationalisation within a tech company.
(1/n)🧵

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

With the OpenAI clownshow, there's been renewed media attention on the xrisk/"AI safety" nonsense. Personally, I've had a fresh wave of reporters asking me naive questions (+ some contacts from old hands who know how to handle ultra-rich man-children with god complexes). 🧵1/

[Geoffrey Irving @geoffreyirving]

I have no details of OpenAI's Board’s reasons for firing Sam, and I am conflicted (lead of Scalable Alignment at Google DeepMind). But there is a large, very loud pile on vs. people I respect, in particular Helen Toner and Ilya Sutskever, so I feel compelled to say a few things.

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

Now is probably the time to announce that I've been writing a book about @OpenAI, the AI industry & its impacts. Here is a slice of my book reporting, combined with reporting from the inimitable @cwarzel. Inside the year of chaos that led to this weekend. https://t.co/6sRzvHHdLY

[Amanda Stent @astent]

@thamar_solorio Nice ASR, AI enabled meeting notes! Equivalent now built into Teams, Zoom

[Amanda Stent @astent]

Two years in! And we have: new #ai related faculty; 600+ student seats in #ai related courses, an #ai concentration and first year cluster, two postdocs, many collaborations. Building AI-with-everyone on the hill.

[Davis Institute for AI @DavisInstAI]

Colby students, faculty, and staff, please join us tomorrow, October 13th, from 12-2PM on the steps of Olin Science Center. Free food, music, swag, a student pitch, and inspiring innovators and entrepreneurs from Colby's past and the Maine startup ecosystem
#ai #colbycollege

[Davis Institute for AI @DavisInstAI]

Next Tuesday, Prof. Lindsay Grace will be coming to Colby! Read more about Prof. Grace in last week's newsletter (or this week's coming soon), and we hope to see you on Tuesday!

#ai #artificialintelligence #ml #machinelearning #davisai #colbycollege

[Amanda Stent @astent]

Or possibly ancient Greece. (Depends on definition of university!)

[Amanda Stent @astent]

Founder of the CLT, says (per https://t.co/yCpLWFESkb) “I’m not saying anybody needs to be Christian or Catholic, but it is the intellectual tradition that gave birth to the university.” I think the first university was Muslim, in Morocco.

[Kashmir Hill @kashhill]

Your Face Belongs To Us is out in the world today! https://t.co/OZfDhPNqYn

It starts with a shocking tip that I got a few years ago: a radical startup had scraped a billion faces from the internet without people’s consent to build a face recognition app for the police. (1/11)

[Davis Institute for AI @DavisInstAI]

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