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23 Dec 2023
Lots of discussion on social media about AI. Meanwhile wind and rain (exacerbated by climate change) take out power to half my state, and wonderful power company workers come from across the country to fix. *Humans* cause problems and (usually other) humans can fix them.
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6 Dec 2023
[1/5] Introducing VisDiff - an #AI tool that describes differences in image sets with natural language.
VisDiff can summarize model failures, compare models, find nuanced dataset differences, discover what makes an image memorable, and so much more!
understanding-visual-dataset…
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Amanda Stent retweeted
6 Dec 2023
“Many articles [...] that compare with weak baselines, exaggerate claims, fail to report full computational costs, completely ignore limitations of the work, or otherwise fail to provide sufficient information, data or code to reproduce the results.”
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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6 Dec 2023
2/2 There are over 150 years of bird observations and you can help! Check out ebird or birds.cornell.edu/home/staff…
(I tried; I can't find anything ethically bad about this! Just point your camera away from others!)
ALT American goldfinch looking handsome
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6 Dec 2023
The annual theme for @DavisInstAI this year is PLAY! so I'd like to share an application of AI that gives me joy and may contribute to a better understanding of climate change. This nifty CV-enabled bird feeder allows me and many others to monitor birds in our backyards. 1/2
ALT Tufted titmouse looking handsome
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Amanda Stent retweeted
5 Dec 2023
New from me, and I think important:
How do we regulate AI?
Here's how:
techpolicy.press/the-pillars…
Even includes some charts to fill out, for direct operationalisation within a tech company.
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Amanda Stent retweeted
24 Nov 2023
With the OpenAI clownshow, there's been renewed media attention on the xrisk/"AI safety" nonsense. Personally, I've had a fresh wave of reporters asking me naive questions ( some contacts from old hands who know how to handle ultra-rich man-children with god complexes). 🧵1/
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Amanda Stent retweeted
21 Nov 2023
I have no details of OpenAI's Board’s reasons for firing Sam, and I am conflicted (lead of Scalable Alignment at Google DeepMind). But there is a large, very loud pile on vs. people I respect, in particular Helen Toner and Ilya Sutskever, so I feel compelled to say a few things.
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Amanda Stent retweeted
20 Nov 2023
Now is probably the time to announce that I've been writing a book about @OpenAI, the AI industry & its impacts. Here is a slice of my book reporting, combined with reporting from the inimitable @cwarzel. Inside the year of chaos that led to this weekend. theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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Amanda Stent retweeted
12 Oct 2023
Colby students, faculty, and staff, please join us tomorrow, October 13th, from 12-2PM on the steps of Olin Science Center. Free food, music, swag, a student pitch, and inspiring innovators and entrepreneurs from Colby's past and the Maine startup ecosystem
#ai #colbycollege
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Amanda Stent retweeted
12 Oct 2023
Next Tuesday, Prof. Lindsay Grace will be coming to Colby! Read more about Prof. Grace in last week's newsletter (or this week's coming soon), and we hope to see you on Tuesday!
#ai #artificialintelligence #ml #machinelearning #davisai #colbycollege
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26 Sep 2023
Founder of the CLT, says (per theguardian.com/us-news/2023…) “I’m not saying anybody needs to be Christian or Catholic, but it is the intellectual tradition that gave birth to the university.” I think the first university was Muslim, in Morocco.
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26 Sep 2023
Or possibly ancient Greece. (Depends on definition of university!)
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19 Sep 2023
Your Face Belongs To Us is out in the world today! penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
It starts with a shocking tip that I got a few years ago: a radical startup had scraped a billion faces from the internet without people’s consent to build a face recognition app for the police. (1/11)
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Amanda Stent retweeted
15 Sep 2023
This week's newsletter hit your inbox yesterday. Give it a look if you haven't already!
#davisai #ai #datascience #colbycollege
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