Long Pham

[Long Pham @longttpham]

💡It's exciting to see companies to provide continued trainings & leadership dev. as strategies to retain talents. #ENTIRE EDIH can support #biocompanies #pharma industries to upgrade skills & policies❗️⁦@insight_centre⁩ ⁦@SkillnetIreland⁩ ⁦@TyndallInstitut⁩

[Chip Huyen @chipro]

Problems I'd do if I'm to do a startup again (though I probably won't any time soon because startups are hard). If you’re solving any of them, I’d love to chat.

1. Data synthesis: AI has become really good both at generating and annotating data. The challenge now is to make sure that the generated data is safe and legal, e.g. not violating any IP.

2. Evaluation: evaluation has gotten so much harder with LLMs, both because many people treat models as blackboxes (we deploy models someone else developed for us) and because outputs can be open-ended. At the same time, investment in evaluation is nowhere close to investment in model or application development. I’d be interested in arena-style evaluation, embedding evaluation, human-in-the-loop evaluation, as well as small, specialized scorers (instead of using large models like GPT-4 as judges).

3. Energy: the bottleneck to scaling AI is no longer compute but electricity. I’m interested in all energy-related problems, including both new energy sources and energy trading.

4. Any application that allows you to collect unique data that nobody has. I’ve heard concerns about building applications that seem to be “wrappers” around popular APIs. If you can get to the market early and gather sufficient data to continually improve your product, data is your moat.

5. GPU-native everything: many data science toolings, including scikit-learn, pandas, and Spark, aren’t built to run natively on GPUs. There have been efforts to make these tools more efficiently leverage GPUs, but I think there’s still a lot of room for the software layer for GPUs (and not just NVIDIA GPUs).

6. Curated Internet: bots are already ruining dating apps, search (bots are incredibly good at SEOs), and social media. I’d like to be able to set a boundary for my Internet, e.g. to limit the search results to those written by people I trust, or sources verified to be human.

[Insight Research Ireland Centre @insight_centre]

The winner for @UCC #AI Quest’s #TopWoman of Influence Award goes to Oluwabukola Adegboro @grace_adegboro @DCU

Huge CONGRATULATIONS to Grace & to @Cadence Madhur Sharma & @BarryOSullivan who presented the award in this category!

@UCC
@uniofgalway
@UCD

[Prof. Noel O'Connor (he/him) @oconnorn]

Wonderful stuff Grace 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Insight Research Ireland Centre @insight_centre]

🏆The winner of the 1st @UCC #AI Quest is Team 2 FSGWL who were the overall winners from 60 entries & a final shortlist of 6 teams.

Here we have @UCCCS CS&IT Head of School Prof Utz Roedig handed the 🏆 5K💰award. The top prize marked their super technical & practical solution.

[Long Pham @longttpham]

🚀Let's discuss AI Implementation & Regulation while the #AIAct is in the very last miles before coming the first ever comprehensive set of rules on AI regulation.
#Brussels is warm & dry & hope the discussions would be 🔥

[Prof. Barry O'Sullivan, MRIA @BarryOSullivan]

We’re delighted to host the 2nd General Assembly of #AI4Europe in Dublin. @insight_centre @crt_ai @UCCResearch @SEFSUCC

[Insight Research Ireland Centre @insight_centre]

'Social media companies should not be doing their own content moderation'
AI pioneer Prof Stuart Russell @CHAI_Berkeley talks to @rtenews @BrianOD_News at Insight/@UCDDiscovery #AIandSociety event in Dublin
@UCC @ucddublin @DCU @uniofgalway @scienceirel
https://t.co/y0Av4ihdi8

[Insight Research Ireland Centre @insight_centre]

Ireland could play a role in international peacekeeping of #AI, says @BarryOSullivan speaking at #AIandSociety event in @NCH_Music @UCDDiscovery @UCC @DCU @uniofgalway @scienceirel

[Insight Research Ireland Centre @insight_centre]

AI Ambassador @ScanlonPatricia with
@BarryOSullivan, Stuart J Russell and @susanleavy at @NCH_Music #AIandSociety @ucddublin @DCU @uniofgalway @UCC @scienceirel

[Long Pham @longttpham]

What's impacts of #AI #ArtificialIntelligence on societies? At #NCH in Dublin learning from Prof Stuart Russel about the challenges but also what's possible with AI. Lots of achievements are already here but what's coming up keep changing & moving fast.

[Prof. Barry O'Sullivan, MRIA @BarryOSullivan]

We’re delighted to have received the best paper prize at the International Workshop on Democracy and AI (DemocrAI 2023) held at the @IJCAIconf conference in #Macau. Hearty congratulations to my co-authors @longttpham and @taituthanglong. #IJCAI23

[Serge Stinckwich @SergeStinckwich]

Another day at #IJCAI2023 with the 2nd workshop on Democracy&AI starting with a presentation from @longttpham on “Keys factors affecting European reactions to AI in European Full&Flawed Democracies”

[IJCAIconf @IJCAIconf]

#Workshop Long Pham @longttpham @insight_centre explaining complex relationship between democratic practices and #AI awareness, attitude and trust in artificial intelligence, & impact of the insights on AI governance @ 2nd International Workshop on Democracy and AI

#IJCAI2023

[Long Pham @longttpham]

☘️💥attending @IJCAIconf Conf in #Macau presenting our accepted paper. It feels good to be back at CS conf. I will present the 📈 tmr morning on behalf of co-authors @BarryOSullivan from @UCC Tai Tan Mai from @DCU #ijcai #democracy @InTouchAIeu @AI_Data_UCC @AIonDemand #IJCAI23

[Prof. Barry O'Sullivan, MRIA @BarryOSullivan]

Day 3 of the @MacGillSchool in Glenties. I’ll be talking about my #AI and diplomacy work with @INHRGeneva and others tomorrow. #ArtificialIntelligence @insight_centre @crt_ai @SEFSUCC

[Prof. Barry O'Sullivan, MRIA @BarryOSullivan]

Our new paper on #AI and European public opinion will appear at the International Workshop on Democracy and AI - DemocrAI 2023- which will run alongside @IJCAIconf 2023 next month. @longttpham #IJCAI2023 @insight_centre @crt_ai @SEFSUCC

[Long Pham @longttpham]

💥 New & Emerging Threats: Cyber Security panel lays out the key challenges & practices for defence & civil infrastructures. It's crucial to protect physical & digital infrastructures for many activities while minimising risks incl emerging ones from new technologies, e.g. #AI

[Long Pham @longttpham]

It feels good to be in the audience of the #consultativeforum on int'l security policy taking place in @UCC. Cant believe this is the panel on 🌎 security environment. Four distinguished lady panellists share their insights & setting the security landscape for public discussions!

[Prof. Barry O'Sullivan, MRIA @BarryOSullivan]

I am speaking at EGI 2023. Please check out my talk if you're attending the event! #EGI2023 @egi_infra - via #Whova event app | ⁦@insight_centre⁩ ⁦@crt_ai⁩ ⁦@SEFSUCC⁩ ⁦@UCCResearch⁩