a very nice quote from Kate Crawford at #chi2024 --
'…the loudest alarmists about existential risk are also the architects of the technology they warn against. By sustaining this paradox, they are reaping unprecedented financial investment and political power.'

Meanwhile, Kyle Wiggers low key doing the Lord's work over here. =)

The women in AI making a difference ift.tt/jA9DkOK

Very interesting release that confirms once more that data quality is the new training law: only 500b 'high-quality' tokens (and, from what I can gather, 7 epochs !!)

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

Dr. Margaret Mitchell (MMitchell), a renowned leader in the field of artificial intelligence and ethics, emphasises the ethical considerations in AI development, ensuring technology is used responsibly and justly.

Book the leading expert in AI: londonspeakerbureau.com/speaker-profil…

I love this work from Adji Bousso Dieng and colleagues so much.

I just arrived in San Francisco and I’m starting to review the applications for our SF community lead. Lots of conventional ones - where are the crazy innovative out-of-the-box applications like HF spaces or viral tweets to get my (and the community’s) attention?

Niloofar has been doing very cool work on privacy in language models for a while. If you're interested in the topic I strongly recommend dropping by her posters.

'model behaviour is not determined by architecture, hyperparameters, or optimizer choices. It's determined by your data, nothing else. Everything else is a means to an end in efficiency delivery compute to approximating that data.' reddit.com/r/MachineLearn…

Ali Schwanke When faced with moral questions like this you should ask yourself “does this opinion seek to uplift or does it contribute to someone’s oppression / suffering” and you will have your answer

My husband found it very helpful when he was going through a very long period of job hunting. I don’t see what’s desperate about signaling what you’re looking for on a site that is built exactly for such purposes.

theonion.com/these-kids-sho…

University land acknowledgements being put to the test.

Can't really think of a greater betrayal than calling militarized police on your students for doing their best in horryfing global circumstances.

Okay, I'm gonna stop doing things for other people and code now and no one can stop me.

Er, did this site remove the option to reject the bluecheck mark they marked people with? When I click through, it takes me to a generic FAQ page (help.twitter.com/en/using-x/x-p…) where it links me back to the Manage Subscription, in a circle.

By the way, if you want to analyze almost any current SOTA LLM, Hugging Face has a thing where you can super easily spin it up for a few bucks/hr, mess with it, then shut it down: ui.endpoints.huggingface.co
I'm kind of addicted.
Sorry clem 🤗 for the $20 bucks I've spent.

Everyone who keeps saying 'AI learns just like humans', as a sort of counter-argument to artists, realize that the 'AI' is controlled, operated and profited from, by another entity, right?
It's not the 'AI' going out and doing art shows to pay rent. You get that, yeah?