Benjamin Phua

No longer active on social media. Pls kindly contact me at my work email, many thanks.

[REALITY CHECK RADIO @RCR_NZ]

"Most people aren't going to be incited or persuaded by her in terms of her excesses. She might upset people. It may sow discord.

I mean, well, you know what's sowing more discord? You know what's getting her more attention? Banning her. So whatever the cause is that they think they have, and I do not understand this cause, they are not achieving anything that they say they're achieving”.

Dr Reuben Kirkham of the Australian Free Speech Union (@FSUofAustralia) joined us to talk about the censorship of Candace Owens, who has been denied a visa for Australia, where she was due to tour in November. Will we see the same happen here?

[Free Speech Union of Australia @FSUofAustralia]

@celinevmachine_ had one of her tweets geoblocked by the eSafety Commissioner for questioning the existence of a “queer club” in a primary school. Many ordinary Australians share Celine’s concerns and a tweet like that shouldn’t be censored.

The hearing is on Friday 13 December. Follow developments at - https://t.co/Bai85ltS8F

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

If you are a student or academic researcher and want to make progress towards human-level AI:
>>>DO NOT WORK ON LLMs<<<

LLMs are an off ramp.
Thousands of engineers are working on LLMs with enormous computing resources.
The only way you could possibly contribute is by analyzing existing LLMs and showing their power and limitations.
But it's more fun and impactful to come up with new ideas and new architectures and show that they might work, even on small problems.

[Allen Frances @AllenFrancesMD]

To avoid DSM reification/stigma:

No patient "has schizophrenia" or "is schizophrenic"- lazy/misleading/reductionistic terms

Proper usage: Patient "meets criteria for schizophrenia"

Why?
Mental disorders are constructs- not diseases
People are so much more than their disorder

[Benjamin Phua @benphua]

Reflecting on exposure to critical disability theory: empowering but painful

[Monash AI Institute @monashAI_inst]

Join us in a few weeks' time with Dr Khalid Hossain from @MonashInfotech, as he discusses the organisational readiness perspective of adopting AI and big data analytics by the textile industry of Bangladesh.

Date and time: 31 August, 4pm AEDT

Register: https://t.co/TrfNdx362V

[Monash Information Technology @MonashInfotech]

Recent global challenges have called for an evolution of humanitarian #leadership. Discover the skills and competencies the world needs now more than ever: https://t.co/MYtnKQaIBZ

Well done to @delvinv from @ActionLabNet who helped guide this @IFRCInnovation publication!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

AI doesn't stop 🤯

In the last 5 days:

Meta's MusicGen
Amazon Review AI
StabilityAI Uncrop
Runway Gen-2 For All
Wordpress Jetpack AI
Chinese LLM &gt; GPT-3
ChatGPT for Enterprise
Google Bard 30% Better

Here's what you need to know:

[Prof Rashina Hoda 🍉 @agileRashina]

We are hiring! Join us at the #softwareengineering group at @MonashInfotech

https://t.co/7OKSzZ8yQX

@ICSEconf #ICSE2023

[Benjamin Phua @benphua]

https://t.co/kvPdTEvQ4A

Support docs without borders in sudan

[Benjamin Phua @benphua]

@_alexcain_ Congratulations!

[Benjamin Phua @benphua]

Can ppl just listen to Yann pls.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Wondering how "runaway AI" can run away if it's been "running into walls" for several years now🤔

[Benjamin Phua @benphua]

@Hashini93 @JSSoftware @ProfJohnGrundy @agileRashina Woo! Go Hashini!

[Hashini Gunatilake @_HashiniG]

Happy to share that our paper titled “Empathy models and software engineering — A preliminary analysis and taxonomy” is published in @JSSoftware. Grateful for my amazing co-authors @ProfJohnGrundy @agileRashina #IngoMueller
#empathy #SoftwareEngineering #taxonomy #vision