Hoi Lam

Compute Strategy and Technical Steering @GoogleDeepMind

[Hoi Lam @hoitab]

An interesting article on AI employment impact. Building on Jasmine's observations:
1. Over-employment might be better than UBI in providing purpose.
2. Our drive to create more university grads might be distorting supply leading to higher structural unemployment.

[jasmine sun @jasminewsun]

AI is arriving in China while the country is already facing a youth unemployment crisis

I spent 2 weeks there, and wrote up notes on what happens when there's not enough knowledge work to go around — ft. "full-time children," bullshit jobs, AI-maxxing, and more

Link: https://t.co/xJu8Z3Tn5J

[James Bradbury @jekbradbury]

Can multi-100B param language models be served efficiently? We think so! Today we’re announcing the PaLM inference paper and releasing code for low-latency, high-throughput inference of 8B–540B models on TPU v4.
Paper: https://t.co/ZBEZOu5usf
Code: https://t.co/mgGNsSxOnq 1/5

[Julia Kaltenborn @JuliaKaltenborn]

The more diverse CS becomes the more problems we can tackle!🌍 Thank you @DeepMind @mcgillu @david_rolnick for giving me a home in the CS world.

Big thanks to @MOSAiCArctic @SLFDavos looking out for our Arctic- we need you💙

What will be your #AIByYou?😉
https://t.co/Uol0WvJDf1

[Hoi Lam @hoitab]

@mabouza @KseniiaS @AndroidDev Awww... Miss you all!

[Erin Hale @erinhale]

It’s a scary time for Asia Twitter - users aren’t just worried about the power Elon Musk could give trolls, they’re worried about the power he could give their governments

From China to Thailand, dissidents fear Musk’s Twitter reign | Al Jazeera https://t.co/hTN6oAVK1J

[NaN demeulemeester @snikolov]

Hey tweeps, DeepMind has some open positions, mostly in London. Happy to chat about working here (I'm an RE in the Science Team and have been here for 6 years) and do referrals

[Hoi Lam @hoitab]

There are too much fighting in the world. Quitting maybe the answer: https://t.co/2B0QKYycQ5

[Tom Verrilli @tdrobbo]

Layoffs are a fact of life - this isn’t the only one today and it’s far from the first at Twitter. But it’s the inhumanity of this one that strikes such a chord.

[Hoi Lam @hoitab]

💙Not all heroes wear capes, some are armed with calculators!

[Hoi Lam @hoitab]

💙To the many incredible friends at Twitter - lots of big hugs.💙

[Hoi Lam @hoitab]

@mabouza I don't know much about insurance adjusters. If the premium rises due to climate change, that could be positive as we start to price in the cost of climate change.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Democracy matters and must be fought for. A bittersweet moment in American and world history. Good that Biden is saying it, tragic that it needs to be said, shameful that so many Americans won’t care. https://t.co/eHwrTqeUpJ

[Hoi Lam @hoitab]

@mabouza Oh wow. Is that due to climate change?

[Hoi Lam @hoitab]

🥳Happy birthday, Channel 4 News!
We often take it for granted but it's a privilege to live in a country with a free press.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

It's exactly 40 years since the very first edition of Channel 4 News.

Here are some of the highlights of the last four decades - in four minutes.

[Adam Wagner KC @AdamWagner1]

Perhaps being “tough on immigrants” isn’t the same as being “tough on immigration” and actually it just leads to cruelty followed by incompetence because good people don’t want to work in such a system and nobody wants to take responsibility when it goes wrong

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Disgusted to hear Suella Braverman say there's an "invasion on our southern coast", just a day after a migrant detention centre was fire-bombed.

Language like this – portraying migrants as "invaders" – whips-up hate & spreads division.

She's totally unfit to be Home Secretary.

[Hoi Lam @hoitab]

Putin might blame individual soldiers for stealing clothes, cars and washing machines... But stealing 2,675 metric tonnes of Ukrainian grains? That's got to be state sponsored.

The FT reporters followed the paperwork... #StandWithUkraine
https://t.co/0t8Me9TP1v

[Pushmeet Kohli @pushmeet]

Honoured to receive the Koenderink test of time award at ECCV 2022 (with Nathan, Derek and Rob) for our work on using colour and depth images for scene understanding. Glad to see the progress that has been in computer vision in the last 10 years since this work was published.

[jon henley @jonhenley]

Pretty much this

[Hoi Lam @hoitab]

@RisingSayak @huggingface Congratulations! I am very happy for you.😊