My PhD student, Upol Ehsan @upol, is on the faculty job market. He's an amazing researcher in Explainable AI (XAI) and Responsible AI (RAI). You should hire him.

https://www.upolehsan.com/

Back to the Reuters article. What's worse than reporting on non-peer-reviewed, poorly written, "research" papers posted to the web? Reporting on vague descriptions of a "discovery" attributed only unnamed sources. 11/

What's their evidence that there's a big breakthrough? Something that has "vast computing resources" can do grade-school level math. You know what else can do grade-school level math? A fucking calculator that can run on a tiny solar cell. Way more reliably, too, undoubtedly. 12/

What a space-saving, neat, delicate way for labeling categories - who says it needs to be below the x-axis!

From: The graphic method, by Felix Auerbach (1914).
https://archive.org/details/AuerbachDieGraphischeDarstellung/page/n23/mode/2up

@lisacmuth @datawrapper maybe for the next iteration of your labels-collection!

EU policymakers enter the last mile for Artificial Intelligence rulebook – EURACTIV.com

https://www.euractiv.com/section/artificial-intelligence/news/eu-policymakers-enter-the-last-mile-for-artificial-intelligence-rulebook/

@afamiglietti79 yes✊

The Punk Movement that's going to be spawned by a generation raised in an era where we built AI that can make anyone smile into every camera is going to be ferocious and remarkable and I hope I have enough youth left in my heart to appreciate it when it gets here.

Just tooting this wiki on misogyny as a way of coping

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misogyny

“Misogyny can be understood both as an attitude held by individuals, primarily by men, and as a widespread cultural custom or system. Sometimes misogyny manifests in obvious and bold ways; other times it is more subtle or disguised in ways that provide plausible deniability.”

For a broad analysis of the synergies between AI, AGI and eugenics, see Ch 4. Necropolitics, in 'Resisting AI'
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai

https://medium.com/@collegehill/agi-researchers-stop-quoting-white-supremacists-challenge-impossible-d1002469d572

#Google is trying again to convince you, YES YOU, to contribute for free to Google Maps.
Please don't.
It is 100% #proprietary, Google has full control over the data you added and people can only access Google Maps over proprietary channels where Google dictates the rules. This gives them too much power.

Contribute to #OpenStreetMap instead, it's a project by the community, for the community.

https://www.openstreetmap.org

#OSM #GoogleMaps #PSA #scam #capitalism #OpenData

“British government quietly sacks entire board of independent AI advisers” | The Record; Alexander Martin — September 21st, 2023

https://therecord.media/uk-disbands-ai-advisory-board-cdei-rishi-sunak

A very short primer on IP & AI. https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2023/09/a-very-short-primer-on-ai-ip-including.html (it links to longer things though.)

Because apparently this is a big discussion in the AI Act negotiations.

#AIAct #digitalGovernance #generativeAI

Living on the edge: network neuroscience beyond nodes
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(23)00205-X
#neuroscience

Have you heard these claims?

“AGI is imminent!”

or

“At current rate of progress, AGI is inevitable!”

We explain why, and present a formal proof that, such claims are false and misleading.

https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/debunking-agi-inevitability-claims/

<< HAND ME DOWNS >> | animasuri’23 —-• a poem on words and hands writing them

https://www.animasuri.com/iOi/?p=5417

Speaking of which --- what would it take to get _Computer Power and Human Reason_ (Weizenbaum 1976) back in print?

#Google Removes 'Pirate' URLs from Users' Privately Saved Links * TorrentFreak

Recently, however, Google appears to gone a step further, using search takedowns to "moderate" users' privately saved links collections.
#privacy #url

https://torrentfreak.com/google-removes-pirate-sites-from-users-privately-saved-links-230830/

AI-powered hate speech detection will moderate voice chat in Call of Duty
#ai #callofduty #hatespeech
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1964820

I'm skeptical of claims that LLMs are going to help on the 2-sigma problem. Lack of a model of what the student understands, a knowledge base on the topic, and reasoning about the best plans to bridge the gaps seem like huge barriers to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem

IBM and NASA open-source largest geospatial AI foundation model on Hugging Face

Link: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2023-08-03-IBM-and-NASA-Open-Source-Largest-Geospatial-AI-Foundation-Model-on-Hugging-Face?sf180690117=1
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37015290

#ibm