Medha

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[Medha @medhadata]

Medha fourth be with you!

aka a pronunciation guide for my name

[Medha @medhadata]

@danyalrehman17 @genbio_workshop @Mila_Quebec @osclsd @jiarlu @tangjianpku @mmbronstein @Yoshua_Bengio @AlexanderTong7 @bose_joey Congrats!

[Danyal Rehman @danyalrehman17]

Excited to release FORT, a new regression-based approach for training normalizing flows 🔥!

🔗 Paper available here: https://t.co/2dMjkvEwBp

New paper w/ @osclsd @jiarlu @tangjianpku @mmbronstein @Yoshua_Bengio @AlexanderTong7 @bose_joey

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[Avijit Ghosh @evijit]

Oh no they found out

[Kofi Yeboah @kofiemeritus]

@mozilla's Africa Innovation Mradi program is looking for researchers - individuals and organizations - to apply for research grants of $5,000 to $10,000 USD to study the impact of AI on the communities they work with in Eastern and Southern Africa.
https://t.co/lsWcG74v6T

[Medha @medhadata]

Why didn't anyone tell me there's Trader Joe's in Calgary why was I buying subpar Superstore snacks 😓

[Medha @medhadata]

@ylecun @mialon_gregoire @garridoq_ @bobak_kiani Yay @danyalrehman17 !

[Grégoire Mialon @mialon_gregoire]

Super happy to finally share this project at the intersection of self-supervised learning and AI for Science!

In collaboration with @garridoq_ , @HLawrenceCS, @danyalrehman17, @ylecun, and @bobak_kiani

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[Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) @alexhanna]

Important reporting from Davey showing that Bard is being trained by workers instructed to provide, amongst other things, critical medical and legal information to be verified by common knowledge or quick web searches.

https://t.co/wqdmPSsoLa

[Medha @medhadata]

🥺😭

[Muhannad Ayyash @AyyashMohannad]

I'm delighted to announce that the recipient of the 2023 Calgary Peace Prize is Mohammed El-Kurd.

Mohammed @m7mdkurd will be joined by an all-star panel!

Rinaldo @blacklikewho
Yara @yarahawari
Erica @ericavioletlee

May 18, virtual event. Register at https://t.co/AwoRuvI0Dm

[Brian Merchant @bcmerchant]

Something to keep in mind as we think through this AI hearing—the more Sam Altman conjures the specter of an ultra-powerful AI, the more he and OpenAI stand to profit both materially and reputationally.

https://t.co/nXpY7gPx2J

[Abeba Birhane @Abebab]

I repeat: let the tech industry establish guardrails and self-regulate is equivalent to expecting the tobacco industry to do cancer research and self-regulate

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

"There's no way a non-industry person can understand" On the contrary --- the folks in industry have shown themselves incapable of understanding (or caring about) the impacts of people of their tech. Regulation should protect rights and should be made by policymakers.

[Elamin Abdelmahmoud @elamin88]

Wrote about Sudan and the impossibility of reading the news as news when it has to do with people you know, people you love, and places that mean something to you. https://t.co/pbFb1wpTgP

[Abeba Birhane @Abebab]

thus is why I can't take anyone who says big tech corporations should self-regulate seriously

[Librarianshipwreck @libshipwreck]

I feel like the point “fancy AI systems are basically lots of unseen human labor” is a point that people who study this stuff have been saying for years.

Go read @ubiquity75’s excellent “Behind the Screen” for more on this.
https://t.co/EUBK0ZCSj8

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

“How to make sense of Danielle Smith’s remarkable teflon coating?

First, I think we have to accept that there’s a non-trivial portion of the Alberta electorate that agrees with at least some of her statements.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

I am floored by the idea that automating discrimination, building tools for social control, and entrenching mass surveillance is not "existential." But ghost stories and scifi fantasies are.

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

"Their concerns aren't as existentially serious as the idea of these things getting more intelligent than us and taking over." @geoffreyhinton in this clip. Their = @timnitGebru & co.

Algorithmic border wall & other surveillance is existentially serious to its targets.
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