Studying social connections and what they mean to us (usuallly with data). 🏳🌈🇨🇦 he/him/* Fall Banner: Poster from UCU Strike 2018. Artist unknown.
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Hi! Testing LLaMa the @oiioxford 's brand new 4x H100s box for student research. It says:
“The self is not a product of the brain but a product of the autoreferent. The brain is a product of the Euclidean space that the autoreferent uses to simulate being outside of itself.”
Although I nearly never post on this platform, I wanted to share a link to a nice interview about my latest book, "From Social Science to Data Science", a monograph about using Python to interpret data.
researchmethodscommunity.sag…
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Next, 'The Poverty of Ethical AI', presents a case study based on fieldwork conducted at Sama, a data annotation company with headquarters in San Francisco and outsourced centres in Kenya and Uganda and reveals the human costs of purportedly ‘ethical AI’
link.springer.com/article/10…
Actual working artist with actual programmer reveal that AI generated art is not a point-and-click affair but difficult, fragile, and subtle if you want something interesting and representative of the art.
reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion…
The proper likeness continues: Apple speech-to-text now can include your own voice: apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/a…
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"His vivacious intellect and charismatic personality lit up our seminars, conversations, teaching, and research." @VickiNashOII and @BiIIDutton remember Professor Yorick Wilks who sadly passed away last week: oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/new…
Google says they have no most and neither does openai. The third player is open source. Which was championed in a recent Meta earnings call by Zuck.
Am I on team Zuck? What is going on?
Meanwhile in an earnings call with Morgan Stanley Zuckerberg discusses PyTorch, LlaMa, and how open source has helped them.
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Exciting news to share! Our team has just been funded to develop Network Canvas Studio - a cloud-based version of Network Canvas. Learn more: isgmh.northwestern.edu/news/… (1/3)
Lazy and provocative. Could have taken brief more seriously:
Vogue Just Used AI-Generated Imagery in a Nightmare Fuel Cover Shoot futurism.com/vogue-ai-imager…
It’s just fish in a barrel evaluating the biases in these models. But it’s pretty striking.
reddit.com/r/midjourney/comm…
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Self-supervised learning underpins today’s cutting-edge work across natural language, computer vision & more — but it’s an intricate art with high barriers to entry.
Today we're releasing the SSL Cookbook, a practical guide for navigating SSL + contributing to this space ⬇️
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Meta AI researchers show how current language models differ from the human brain & highlight the role of long-range & hierarchical predictions.
Read the open accessed article in Nature ➡️ go.nature.com/3ZfH7eK
Finally, words in synthetic images. (Readies popcorn for the next generation deluge of misinfo and memes) reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion…
The suggestion that the shirt in the middle is residual of Ukraine as part of a “charity” prompt is fascinating. reddit.com/r/midjourney/comm…