Santiago H

🇨🇴 Gemini Eval @ @GoogleDeepMind

[Google AI @GoogleAI]

Can remote sensing and #MachineLearning help improve weather forecasting in Africa?

At Research@ Accra in Ghana, Google researcher Santiago Hincapie Potes spoke about the challenge of weather forecasting in Africa, and how #ML can be leveraged to achieve more accurate results.

[Santiago H @shpotes]

@fchollet @pwang 100M is ~non white population

[Santiago H @shpotes]

@alfcnz You are missing this masterpiece from the Mexican location

[Santiago H @shpotes]

Heading to NeurIPS in Mexico Nov 29–Dec 5! Let me know if you want to catch up.

[Santiago H @shpotes]

@xwang_lk Two main reasons (IMO):
1) TPUs are design to fit Google needs, externalizing them might affect the teams priorities in order to fit the needs of the market.
2) Scaling the distribution chain is far from trivial, it potentially requieres a *huge* investment

[Santiago H @shpotes]

@jxmnop The real issue here isn't the person who made the plot, but the OpenAI process that allowed it to be presented publicly

[Christopher Manning @chrmanning]

The decline of Chatbot Arena: Mostly, it’s just Goodhart's law one more time: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

But even more so if there is a lot of money riding on it.

https://t.co/EnoCIidqc6

[Google AI @GoogleAI]

Congratulations to Neil Zeghidour, Alejandro Luebs, Ahmed Omran, Jan Skoglund, and Marco Tagliasacchi for winning the IEEE Best Paper Award for "SoundStream: An End-to-End Natural Audio Codec"! https://t.co/5C9HuwYFjJ #SPSAwards #IEEEAwards

[Santiago H @shpotes]

It was great to be part of this initiative

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Great to see AI-based weather prediction being rolled out across Africa. This is important because traditional weather forecasts rely much more on ground-based radar, and in Africa, there simply aren't enough to give high quality traditional forecasts.

https://t.co/yonBR65ESU

[Santiago H @shpotes]

@cgarciae88 and wait to see how the market crashes

[Santiago H @shpotes]

@BlackHC Ugh, this is so incredibly disappointing to hear. This kind of stuff just shouldn't happen, especially at a place claiming to be pushing the boundaries of ethical AI. Major props to you for having the courage to speak out. We need more people willing to stand up.

[Google AI @GoogleAI]

Announcing the Open Buildings 2.5D Temporal Dataset, which expands the Open Buildings effort by providing data about building presence over time and height data across the Global South from 2016 to 2023. Learn more at: https://t.co/vNihs35Ulj

[Santiago H @shpotes]

@deliprao Is this a thing somewhere?

[Santiago H @shpotes]

For the last couple of weeks Panzai had made my life easier, check it out!

[Daniel Johnson @_ddjohnson]

Excited to share Penzai, a JAX research toolkit from @GoogleDeepMind for building, editing, and visualizing neural networks! Penzai makes it easy to see model internals and lets you inject custom logic anywhere.

Check it out on GitHub: https://t.co/mas2uiMqj9

[AfriClimate AI @AfriClimateAI]

✨🌍 Exciting news from the Heart of Africa! Introducing AfriClimate AI: blending AI with Climate Science for a sustainable, prosperous, and resilient Africa. 🌱 Join us in this journey to shape a climate-resilient Africa. Learn more: https://t.co/RYjLmbV1GZ #AfriClimateAI

[Santiago H @shpotes]

@yoavgo Without accessing the learning rate / optimizer?

[Abeba Birhane @Abebab]

imagine if we had a fraction of the current outrage around Google's Gemini "going woke" over the past years when generative AI consistently produced racist stereotypes (which most generative AI still does)

[Santiago H @shpotes]

@TheZachMueller This one?

[Santiago H @shpotes]

@typedfemale Fiddle https://t.co/12x6xxBLjI
It is really nice. The config is basically a lazy application of your functions

[Santiago H @shpotes]

@srush_nlp I believe @BlackHC already did it

[Andreas Kirsch 🇺🇦 @BlackHC]

@jason_kint I got one to reproduce... The model must have seen that article more than once and overfit to it. The prompt is too short otherwise. But I also needed a system prompt that tells GPT-4 that it is the New York Times

[Wilka Carvalho @cogscikid]

If you've been out of your undergrad for < 3 years, want to do an AI PhD and want more research experience, please consider this postbac program @Harvard

Housing + stipend provided

Can take Harvard classes

Get to work with world class researchers