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complexity theory; artificial societies; machine learning; neural networks; open source software; history and philosophy of tech

Menlo Park, CA
Joined May 2008
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Important clarification on the risk of #AI technologyreview.com/s/60277…
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Incredible panel at #NeurIPS2024 yesterday with @krandiash, @sameer_, & @ciphr discussing the research ➡️ production pipeline! Thanks @SriChandrasekar & @p72vc for bringing us together 🧪 Also, building with AG2 in production? We've got some cool perks waiting: jc9pie8gn0f.typeform.com/ag2…"
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Myth: open foundation models are antithetical to AI safety. Fact: open foundation models are critical for AI safety. Here are three reasons why:
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We’ve open sourced our watsonx․ai geospatial foundation model, built with @NASAEarth, on @HuggingFace! 🚀 It’s NASA’s first openly available AI foundation model and the largest geospatial model on HuggingFace. Learn more: ibm.co/3OHYz9d
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At least, we hope that making these attacks evident increases awareness of the brittleness and risks of LLMs, especially in circumstances where they are deployed "in the wild" without a human in the loop. We have an expanded ethics and disclosure statement in the paper. [7/n]
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🔥Today is #WorldBookDay: are you looking for critical perspectives on privacy, AI, and tech? These fantastic women can help: @katecrawford @daniellecitron @CarissaVeliz @shoshanazuboff @safiyanoble @ruha9 @JuliaAngwin @hackylawyER @merbroussard @CCriadoPerez
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Can large-language models help humans with the creation of original writing? To answer that, we need to be specific about what we mean by that question. nyer.cm/FPbX7HW
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb believes surrounding ourselves with unread books enriches our lives as they remind us of all we don't know. The Japanese call this practice tsundoku, and it may provide lasting benefits bit.ly/3to2U5F
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Distributed collective action, brains as a collection of voting modules, and collective intelligence at scale are among the topics of several recently published books on collective intelligence reviewed in brief by editor @geoffmulgan. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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I enjoyed talking with @benpopper for this StackOverflow podcast about my team's work at Foursquare. We are on a mission to map the patterns in the movements of people to every public point-of-interest in the world. To make it eas…lnkd.in/gmnYhcpa lnkd.in/ggJEDdxY
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Clock speed is one of the biggest factors you can optimize as a company. The speed at which you ship, get feedback, iterate, and ship again is your most sustainable competitive advantage.
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Morse code is designed so that you can decode it with this binary tree. I just assumed people memorised every letter. 🤯
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In the 1970s, the mathematical biologist Robert May developed the logistic map, a branching diagram that shows how chaos can impact ecosystems over time. A recent study may reinvigorate ecologists’ interest in chaos. quantamagazine.org/hidden-ch…
In 1988, @paul_smolensky had a seminal debate against Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn at MIT arguing over connectionism and symbolic computation. The recording of this debate is now available on youtube! youtube.com/watch?v=EdWZpuXB… @GaryMarcus @raphaelmilliere
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Neuroscientists have identified a clear pattern in the visual cortex that links language-based representations of a semantic category, such as place, with perceptual ones. quantamagazine.org/new-map-o…
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Replying to @CT_Bergstrom
Only two books you need to read in your teens/20s:
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#ClimateChange needs all hands on deck. In this month’s ACM Computing Surveys, the landmark paper “Tackling Climate Change With Machine Learning,” written by the @ClimateChangeAI team, lays out how #AI can contribute across a dozen fields. Read more: bit.ly/3pBSXQQ