This is completely not okay, and we can't become numb to repeated instances of illegal and unconstitutional action by government agencies. The recent days have been horrific.
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If you’re finishing your undergrad or PhD at Imperial, Cambridge, Oxford, UCL, Toronto, MIT, MILA, UBC, ETH, Stanford, Caltech, UCLA, Berkeley, CMU, UW, NYU, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, Yale or any other top school in STEM, please apply too. I love working with energetic people, who are prepared to work on what is needed to shape AI, make it safe, make it brilliant, make it creative, and make it useful in math, science, healthcare, education, energy and environment.
I just learned that after20 years, AI engineers in Vancouver still get paid less than their peers in the USA. That is just disrespectful and something Canadians should not put up with! @MarkJCarney
Thanks to Canadian taxes channeled by @CIFAR_News and @NSERC_CRSNG, Canada developed deep learning, training on GPUs, dropout, attention for LMs, neural net LMs, distillation/dark knowledge, the framework that enabled DQN, the hyperparameter optimisation code that was essential to beat Lee Sedol, etc etc Canada has given more to AI than any place in the USA. Don’t sell yourselves for less. Not acceptable. @Montreal_AI@UofT
What the heck do you know about war? I have picked up one those bleeding bodies with my own hands, warm still, but dead. You have no bloody idea of what that feels, how it tears your soul, or the price we have paid throughout the world for your country. Look at yourself in a mirror before posting stuff like this. We all want peace, lasting peace, but it is offensive of you to trivialise the price the world has paid for the peace you enjoy. You’re welcome.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy will remain in history forever as an exceptional leader. Vance will be forgotten as a garden variety classless politician.
Slava Ukraini.
"A calculator app? Anyone could make that."
Not true.
A calculator should show you the result of the mathematical expression you entered. That's much, much harder than it sounds.
What I'm about to tell you is the greatest calculator app development story ever told.
@sirbayes@rwang07 It refers to economic activities taking place below 1000 metres above the ground, mainly related to transportations by drones or helicopter s
This is the most gut-wrenching blog I've read, because it's so real and so close to heart. The author is no longer with us. I'm in tears. AI is not supposed to be 200B weights of stress and pain. It used to be a place of coffee-infused eureka moments, of exciting late-night arxiv safaris, of wicked smart ideas that put smile on our faces. But all the incoming capital and attention seem to be forcing everyone to race to the bottom.
Jensen always tells us not to use phrases like "beat this, crush that". I absolutely love this perspective. We are here to lift up an entire ecosystem, not to send anyone to oblivion. I like to think of my work as expanding the pie. We need to bake the pie first, together, the bigger the better, before dividing it. It gives me comfort knowing that our team's works moved the needle for robotics, even just by a tiny bit.
AI is not a zero sum game. In fact, it is perhaps the most positive-sum game that humanity ever plays. And we as a community should act this way. Take care of each other. Send love to "competitors" - because in the grand schemes of things, we are all coauthors of an accelerated future.
I never had the privilege to know Felix irl, but I loved his research taste and set up Google Scholar alert for every one of his new papers. His works in agents and VLMs had a big influence on mine. He would've been a great friend. I want to get to know him, but I couldn't any more.
RIP Felix. May the next world have no wars to fight.
I rewrote my parallel tempering sampler using JAX and improved the speed by >100 times🦾 But the result was obviously wrong💀. I debugged line by line for 3 days and finally solved it by setting `jax.config.update("jax_enable_x64", True)`😅
the researchers you admire the most got where they are not by jumping from topic to topic, but by nailing down a small set of hard problems and then hammering away at them for years.
persistence and depth of knowledge win in the long run.
I’ve walked through poor neighbourhoods in India, Africa and LatAm many times. Yet, I recently walked through one of the most depressing ones in terms of poverty, drug abuse, and sheer hopelessness: San Francisco.
Giant tech AI companies promise to make the world a better place, but their backyard is in a deplorable human state. Self-driving Waymo Jaguar luxury cabs roam through a city full of homeless people on the sidewalks.
If we can’t fix this, what hope do we have for the future? It’s time for ALL Big Tech to take this more seriously. Excuses like weather, etc, are rather mediocre explanations. Also, it’s beyond excuses.
Maybe time for big tech and the many million dollar startups to demonstrate some responsibility, and illustrate the values, which they enforce on employees, by example. Do the right thing. Maybe a conference in SF with all big tech CEOs, government bodies, and a few people from the streets could be a good start. A commitment to solve the problem is the first step. That would restore hope.
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@simonw The one we use internally is:
"An AI system that's capable of carrying out and completing long running, open ended tasks in the real world."
The real world can be physical or online.