Willie Costello

Sciencing data @Shopify // Getting ethical about ML @AISC_TO // Podcasting about music @TheYoML // "Not here / Not here the darkness, in this twittering world"

[Willie Costello @williecostello]

ICYMI, last night, at the same time as I was giving a YouTube talk on the last five years in AI ethics, @carlyraejepsen was having a YouTube karaoke party celebrating the last five years since E•MO•TION. Coincidence?? 🌈💖 https://t.co/xFz1MCKg8R https://t.co/tugRycGAyH

[Willie Costello @williecostello]

I'm gonna be on this panel! Tune in tomorrow to hear me and some other awesome @Shopify data scientists chat about data storytelling

[Willie Costello @williecostello]

💯. Ethical and social critiques of AI & ML research are often misunderstood as being anti-science and anti-progress -- when really, they're just calling out the research for being intellectually lazy and facile

[Deb Raji @rajiinio]

If ML researchers want to be taken seriously, they should start by taking themselves seriously. The lack of thought around the tasks the field chooses to rally around astounds me - we need to begin critically reflecting on what kind of problems this tech can meaningfully solve.

[Willie Costello @williecostello]

@hypervisible @mrcathands I mean, it's no walk in the park, but it's very, very good. It reminds me a lot of Breath of the Wild. If you liked that, Elden Ring has a similar sense of exploration, vastness, difficulty, and wonder. But yeah you die a lot 😆

[Willie Costello @williecostello]

I'm the "I support CANADALAND" blurb on today's @CANADALAND! And it's a good one: A hard-hitting interview on the (much obscured) details of Canada's news media bailout https://t.co/sPi3hYdgTV

[Willie Costello @williecostello]

I agree with everything in this blog post.

That's why I wrote it 😉

[Willie Costello @williecostello]

This is such a fun, clear, and effective explainer!

[dylan @dylnbkr]

I wrote a PAIR Explorable! Come check out how datasets encode worldviews with fun interactive shapes:

https://t.co/Ru03kpOHVm

[Willie Costello @williecostello]

Check out this article on our response to the @TPSBoard's policy on the use of AI in policing! Thanks to @smnikpoor and the other members of @AISC_TO who worked with me on this

[Willie Costello @williecostello]

As a final note, I was pleased to have the opportunity to feature an image from @ImagesofAI as our article cover image – "Quantified Human" by Alan Warburton (@cgwtf). Check them out! https://t.co/tzrx0W7n9V 15/15

[Willie Costello @williecostello]

Over the past two weeks, I have worked with @smnikpoor and other members of @AISC_TO to respond to @TPSBoard's call for public feedback on their Use of Artificial Intelligence Technology Policy. Here is our response: https://t.co/0bjB2QKW7J Some highlights... 1/15

[Willie Costello @williecostello]

All this being said, we do appreciate this draft Policy, and are grateful to the @TPSBoard for proactively seeking out feedback from the public at this stage. We hope our feedback will prove useful as the TPSB works to revise this Policy. 14/15