Vitor Carvalho

On AI, Machine Learning, RAI, NLP, Search and other explorations.

[Graham Neubig @gneubig]

Summary of GPT-OSS architectural innovations:

1. sliding window attention (ref: https://t.co/m0iS23mN8y)
2. mixture of experts (ref: https://t.co/1F6KtdfDg0)
3. RoPE w/ Yarn (ref: https://t.co/5P2jUcxo4E)
4. attention sinks (ref: streaming llm https://t.co/vZw7q2dplG)

[Vitor Carvalho @vitroc]

Interesting

https://t.co/V5t1fuKGsd

[Vitor Carvalho @vitroc]

Started checking out Bluesky, as an alternative to this place.

[Benjamin Van Durme @ben_vandurme]

PhD Summer Research Internships on topics in conversational AI at Microsoft
https://t.co/T8pcpiUw71

[Sean Du @xuefeng_du]

🥳My @MSFTResearch internship paper is out! We show that leveraging unlabeled user data is beneficial for detecting malicious prompts for vision-language model!
paper: https://t.co/o0iet1noSx
w/@reshmigh,Robert Sim,@AhmedGaSalem,@vitroc,@emilymlawton,@SharonYixuanLi,Jay Stokes

[gaut @0xgaut]

we've officially reached AGI

[Graham Neubig @gneubig]

Google’s Gemini recently made waves as a major competitor to OpenAI’s GPT. Exciting! But we wondered:

How good is Gemini really?

At CMU, we performed an impartial, in-depth, and reproducible study comparing Gemini, GPT, and Mixtral.

Paper: https://t.co/S3T7ediQLa
🧵

[Brian Feroldi @BrianFeroldi]

Naval's life formulas:

[Vitor Carvalho @vitroc]

https://t.co/B8EunVwDjP

[Gurmeet Chadha @connectgurmeet]

This is Ravi Venkateshan... He was Chairman of Microsoft India and Cummins India Ltd... Last line is ❤️
Thought provoking @vipinar28637504

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Sebastian Steudtner, a German pro surfer, rode a wave over 115 feet tall at Nazare, Portugal, a record breaking surf!

[Vitor Carvalho @vitroc]

This is a really exciting development in Quantum and AI

https://t.co/xnH84EIbYF

[MIT Mathematics @MITMath]

Prof. Gil Strang's last lecture is ... Monday! Watch it via live stream: https://t.co/crToqS9gKq

[UC San Diego @UCSanDiego]

The remarkable Scrippshenge took place last night! Photographers flock here twice a year to witness the sunset perfectly aligning with Scripps Pier.🌅

#ScrippsHenge #UCSD #UCSanDiego #LaJolla #ScrippsPier #SanDiego

[Vitor Carvalho @vitroc]

interesting analysis

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.

My column: https://t.co/dBIhT9eZLv

And some utterly damning charts.

1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

[Jaime Teevan @jteevan]

From the start, I’ve felt a huge sense of responsibility with Copilot: a responsibility to get this powerful tool into people’s hands – and to do so in the right way. Science, experimentation and the human experience are our guides. Join us on the journey! https://t.co/YnKNErX0JC

[Alvaro Cintas @dr_cintas]

Microsoft just presented Microsoft 365 Copilot!

It is MIND BLOWING 🤯

Email, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams...this is really going to change the game.

[Anna Rumshisky @arumshisky]

Are you working on NLP in New England? We would like to invite you to attend New England NLP Meeting Series on April 18, co-hosted with @jacobandreas and @Brown_NLP.
Register here: https://t.co/iDi6GrlM5e

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

ChatGPT is coming soon to the Azure OpenAI Service, which is now generally available, as we help customers apply the world’s most advanced AI models to their own business imperatives. https://t.co/kQwydRWWnZ

[Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @UnderdogGeek]

The Alexandria team in @MSFTResearch has multiple open internship positions for summer 2023!
https://t.co/rPjiDc18fy

Looking for candidates with background in deep learning, automatic knowledge base construction, and entity linking for this position:
https://t.co/V75fwlFV04