Compute Strategy and Technical Steering @GoogleDeepMind
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An interesting article on AI employment impact. Building on Jasmine's observations:
1. Over-employment might be better than UBI in providing purpose.
2. Our drive to create more university grads might be distorting supply leading to higher structural unemployment.
May 14
AI is arriving in China while the country is already facing a youth unemployment crisis
I spent 2 weeks there, and wrote up notes on what happens when there's not enough knowledge work to go around — ft. "full-time children," bullshit jobs, AI-maxxing, and more
Link: jasmi.news/i/197589740/a-chi…
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10 Nov 2022
Can multi-100B param language models be served efficiently? We think so! Today we’re announcing the PaLM inference paper and releasing code for low-latency, high-throughput inference of 8B–540B models on TPU v4.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2211.05102
Code: github.com/google-research/g… 1/5
ALT Model FLOPS utilization (MFU) versus total latency for running a 60-input-token, 20-output-token inference, at a range of batch sizes, on Megatron 530B and PaLM 540B models.
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9 Nov 2022
The more diverse CS becomes the more problems we can tackle!🌍 Thank you @DeepMind @mcgillu @david_rolnick for giving me a home in the CS world.
Big thanks to @MOSAiCArctic @SLFDavos looking out for our Arctic- we need you💙
What will be your #AIByYou?😉
dpmd.ai/aibyyou-tw
9 Nov 2022
Could AI help us protect the Arctic from climate change❓
As the world comes together to find solutions at #COP27, @McGillU student and DeepMind scholar Julia is using her skills to tackle one of the biggest crises facing humanity.
Here's how.⬇️ dpmd.ai/aibyyou-tw #AIByYou
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It’s a scary time for Asia Twitter - users aren’t just worried about the power Elon Musk could give trolls, they’re worried about the power he could give their governments
From China to Thailand, dissidents fear Musk’s Twitter reign | Al Jazeera aljazeera.com/economy/2022/1…
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5 Nov 2022
Hey tweeps, DeepMind has some open positions, mostly in London. Happy to chat about working here (I'm an RE in the Science Team and have been here for 6 years) and do referrals
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There are too much fighting in the world. Quitting maybe the answer: ft.com/content/22b826cd-c451…
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4 Nov 2022
Layoffs are a fact of life - this isn’t the only one today and it’s far from the first at Twitter. But it’s the inhumanity of this one that strikes such a chord.
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💙Not all heroes wear capes, some are armed with calculators!
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3 Nov 2022
Democracy matters and must be fought for. A bittersweet moment in American and world history. Good that Biden is saying it, tragic that it needs to be said, shameful that so many Americans won’t care. x.com/JoeBiden/status/158794…
Democracy is more than a form of government. It’s a way of being. A way of seeing the world.
A way that defines who we are, what we believe, and why we do what we do.
Democracy is simply that fundamental.
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🥳Happy birthday, Channel 4 News!
We often take it for granted but it's a privilege to live in a country with a free press.
2 Nov 2022
It's exactly 40 years since the very first edition of Channel 4 News.
Here are some of the highlights of the last four decades - in four minutes.
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1 Nov 2022
Perhaps being “tough on immigrants” isn’t the same as being “tough on immigration” and actually it just leads to cruelty followed by incompetence because good people don’t want to work in such a system and nobody wants to take responsibility when it goes wrong
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31 Oct 2022
Disgusted to hear Suella Braverman say there's an "invasion on our southern coast", just a day after a migrant detention centre was fire-bombed.
Language like this – portraying migrants as "invaders" – whips-up hate & spreads division.
She's totally unfit to be Home Secretary.
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Putin might blame individual soldiers for stealing clothes, cars and washing machines... But stealing 2,675 metric tonnes of Ukrainian grains? That's got to be state sponsored.
The FT reporters followed the paperwork... #StandWithUkraine
on.ft.com/3zqc0CE
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27 Oct 2022
Honoured to receive the Koenderink test of time award at ECCV 2022 (with Nathan, Derek and Rob) for our work on using colour and depth images for scene understanding. Glad to see the progress that has been in computer vision in the last 10 years since this work was published.
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25 Oct 2022
Stop complaining about the turnover in Britain. You don't seem to get it. It is much healthier and more stable than Russia, Saudi Arabia, and other nations that have NO turnover. The virtue of the system is that it does not depend on a single person.
5 Jun 2022
Weak nations require strong leaders; strong nations require weak leaders, or, better, no leader.
(New pamphlet)
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24 Oct 2022
Director of Computational Biology (linkedin.com/jobs/view/33156…) is @IsomorphicLabs' latest research leadership role. Join us to help integrate your knowledge of Disease Biology and Machine Learning into the world's most ambitious drug discovery program! Open in London and Lausanne.
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Boris Johnson fancies himself a Cincinnatus. Others see him as Napoleon coming back from exile on the island of Elba to be defeated at Waterloo: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hund…
#ToryShambles
22 Oct 2022
Johnson ha regresado a Londres desde la República Dominicana, como Napoleón de Elba, y muchos temen ya el castañazo de un Waterloo. elpais.com/internacional/202… a través de @el_pais
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