Bernie Hogan is blurky.bsky.social

Studying social connections and what they mean to us (usuallly with data). 🏳‍🌈🇨🇦 he/him/* Fall Banner: Poster from UCU Strike 2018. Artist unknown.

[Bernie Hogan is blurky.bsky.social @blurky]

Finally packing up. Find me at https://t.co/dqbfvyaauM. xox

[Bernie Hogan is blurky.bsky.social @blurky]

Hi! Testing LLaMa the @oiioxford 's brand new 4x H100s box for student research. It says:

“The self is not a product of the brain but a product of the autoreferent. The brain is a product of the Euclidean space that the autoreferent uses to simulate being outside of itself.”

[Bernie Hogan is blurky.bsky.social @blurky]

Although I nearly never post on this platform, I wanted to share a link to a nice interview about my latest book, "From Social Science to Data Science", a monograph about using Python to interpret data.

https://t.co/1rxmqHEKq6

[James Muldoon @james_muldoon_]

Next, 'The Poverty of Ethical AI', presents a case study based on fieldwork conducted at Sama, a data annotation company with headquarters in San Francisco and outsourced centres in Kenya and Uganda and reveals the human costs of purportedly ‘ethical AI’

https://t.co/VmAsNNLycu

[Bernie Hogan is blurky.bsky.social @blurky]

@danbri @jschunter @GaryMarcus In that sense it’s a great concentrator. It’s bringing non-native English speakers to English, not the other way around.

By arguing for its proliferation on these grounds one is arguing for more English as the push towards languages ends up heavily asymmetric.

[Bernie Hogan is blurky.bsky.social @blurky]

Actual working artist with actual programmer reveal that AI generated art is not a point-and-click affair but difficult, fragile, and subtle if you want something interesting and representative of the art.

https://t.co/4QG02KJSl6

[Bernie Hogan is blurky.bsky.social @blurky]

The proper likeness continues: Apple speech-to-text now can include your own voice: https://t.co/LKmvuBCO8L

[Oxford Internet Institute @oiioxford]

"His vivacious intellect and charismatic personality lit up our seminars, conversations, teaching, and research." @VickiNashOII and @BiIIDutton remember Professor Yorick Wilks who sadly passed away last week: https://t.co/DjwkSA2YkJ

[Bernie Hogan is blurky.bsky.social @blurky]

Tears of the Kingdom reviews set a new standard in hyperbole.

[Bernie Hogan is blurky.bsky.social @blurky]

So my concern now is the privatisation/central management or anarchy of synthetic representations of selves embedded/trained in these LoRas.

[Bernie Hogan is blurky.bsky.social @blurky]

Google says they have no most and neither does openai. The third player is open source. Which was championed in a recent Meta earnings call by Zuck.

Am I on team Zuck? What is going on?

[Bernie Hogan is blurky.bsky.social @blurky]

Meanwhile in an earnings call with Morgan Stanley Zuckerberg discusses PyTorch, LlaMa, and how open source has helped them.

[Bernie Hogan is blurky.bsky.social @blurky]

@ljhenshall Leaked Google doc: https://t.co/uXJtEe3GP6 (real? Unconfirmed as far as I know): says AI progress fastest in open source. Mentions Lora and stable diffusion. Precisely where my head is. Great potential but dangers already here

[Bernie Hogan is blurky.bsky.social @blurky]

@1Br0wn Oh look! Just in time for a new bout of covid. Looks like a great excuse to mask up.

[Bernie Hogan is blurky.bsky.social @blurky]

@Scobleizer @icodeblockchain @BeingSalmanKhan I think this is a defeatist attitude and one that ignores firm’s very real concerns. “Local” might mean on 24gb vram. That’s not inaccessible to a 32gb m2 mac. And local for firms can still be on some 80gb A100s on servers

[Network Canvas @NetworkCanvas]

Exciting news to share! Our team has just been funded to develop Network Canvas Studio - a cloud-based version of Network Canvas. Learn more: https://t.co/PKnPBJgL4X (1/3)

[Bernie Hogan is blurky.bsky.social @blurky]

Lazy and provocative. Could have taken brief more seriously:
Vogue Just Used AI-Generated Imagery in a Nightmare Fuel Cover Shoot https://t.co/fydslSWOzC

[Bernie Hogan is blurky.bsky.social @blurky]

It’s just fish in a barrel evaluating the biases in these models. But it’s pretty striking.

https://t.co/ztG96yGuHR

[Bernie Hogan is blurky.bsky.social @blurky]

Not bad. https://t.co/pR2ZnDzuXu

[AI at Meta @AIatMeta]

Self-supervised learning underpins today’s cutting-edge work across natural language, computer vision & more — but it’s an intricate art with high barriers to entry.

Today we're releasing the SSL Cookbook, a practical guide for navigating SSL + contributing to this space ⬇️