Mark Stent

Data Scientist | Statistician | Music Producer | Speedcuber

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[Mark Stent @mrkstnt]

@rasbt We are gonna have to stop sleeping to stop FOMO!

[Mark Stent @mrkstnt]

@zerotomasteryio @AndreiNeagoie I’ve done five courses so far… have literally changed my life and career path… from DJ to data science director!

[Mark Stent @mrkstnt]

Out now : https://t.co/vwBPRsS3rQ

[Mark Stent @mrkstnt]

@rickygervais you rocked Brighton tonight ! Thank you for being my opening to moving the UK from South Africa …. Loved every second #Armageddon

[AI at Meta @AIatMeta]

New on @huggingface — CoTracker simultaneously tracks the movement of multiple points in videos using a flexible design based on a transformer network — it models correlation of the points in time via specialized attention layers.

🤗 Try CoTracker ➡️ https://t.co/IdaUrH9Xxr

[Mark Stent @mrkstnt]

It our world leaders were Lego… #ArtificialIntelligence #lego #midjourney

[François Chollet @fchollet]

To be clear, at this time and for the foreseeable future, there does not exist any AI model or technique that could represent an extinction risk for humanity. Not even in nascent form, and not even if you extrapolate capabilities far into the future via scaling laws.

[Mark Stent @mrkstnt]

Give me your top case studies for generative AI..besides the obvious

[Mark Stent @mrkstnt]

Brilliant, nail on head

[Jason Gu @jasonprompts]

Unpopular opinion, but I think it's way more difficult to use Generative AI in an area where you are a rank beginner than in a field where you have some subject matter expertise in.

For example, you can ask GPT-4 to build you a front end, but if you don't know anything about tailwind css or react, you're going to get something very generic. Conversely if you never performed a SWOT or sensitivity analysis, you wouldn't be able to tell if the output you got has any real insight.

On the image generation side, sure you can get some neat pictures out of the box, but if you understood principles of lightning, different artists styles, exposure/aperture, depth of field, camera variants, you can get some truly stunning results.

Generative AI is not a tool for the ignorant. But it truly rewards those who are patient and curious.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

And no, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger do not listen to your microphone unless you are actively using a feature that requires a microphone, like a call.

From here: https://t.co/1xdp5DjYQX
¨Are Facebook and Instagram listening to your conversations?
No. We understand that sometimes ads can be so specific, it seems like we must be listening to your conversations through your microphone, but we're not. We only use your microphone if you've given us permission and are actively using a feature that requires the microphone.¨

If you believe Meta could be lying about this, you grossly under-estimate two things:
1. the kind of legal liability risk a large company is willing to take by lying.
2. the level of government scrutiny Meta is under right now, particularly when it comes to data privacy.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

If some ill-intentioned person can produce an evil AGI, then large groups of well-intentioned, well-funded, and well-organized people can produce AI systems that are specialized in taking down evil AGIs.
Call it the AGI police.

No need to bomb data centers.

[👾 @neoncognitron]

@fchollet this and the diagrams in the replies seem related to what you’re looking for!

[Santiago @svpino]

What's the point of learning to code if AI will do that in a few years?

I get this comment 5 times every day.

AI might get there, but in the meantime, those who know how to code are getting paid, while those waiting for the future aren't.

Choose wisely.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

If you are worried about "AI causing mass unemployment" listen to economists who have studied the impact of technological revolutions on the labor market, like @erikbryn .

DO NOT listen to computer scientists who are concerned by the social consequences of their work.

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

I've been genuinely impressed with sophistication of ChatGPT users, and the depth to which they explore the technology. Easy to underappreciate.

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

- @lexfridman is uniquely qualified to do this in a way that truly serves the world. His ability to host people from across a wide range of stances & to press important issues, and get to truth, is remarkable. Red ties, blue ties, black ties… I would love to see this happen.

[Mark Stent @mrkstnt]

Brilliant

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Haha

[AI at Meta @AIatMeta]

Announced by Mark Zuckerberg this morning — today we're releasing DINOv2, the first method for training computer vision models that uses self-supervised learning to achieve results matching or exceeding industry standards.

More on this new work ➡️ https://t.co/h5exzLJsFt

[Mark Stent @mrkstnt]

Generative music is coming …