Humanitarian AI

Although we haven't been active on this space since Twitter's demise. Our meetup community has been active producing new podcast episodes. Here's our latest episode: soundcloud.com/humanitarian-a…

The launch of Kyutai is super cool news especially for humanitarian actors looking to partner with non-profit labs!

The @HAI_Today (Humanitarian AI Today) podcast just published an interview featuring @Suzy_Madigan, founder of @TheMachineRace #aiforgood #humanitarianai #humanitarian #ArtificialIntelligence podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/suz…

Imagine doing this with humanitarian data and questions posed by humanitarian actors!

There’s some points worth thinking about in this post!

I pledged a paid subscription to Synthedia synthedia.substack.com/?utm_medium=em…

It was terrific that we could organize this workshop on #AIforConservation at @HCRCS. Very grateful to all the participants for their insights that are highlighted in this workshop report! Thank you @lilyxu0 and @rolf_comma_e for your leadership in co-organizing the workshop

In other news, I’ll be joining @UChicagoCS and @DSI_UChicago in 2024 as an assistant professor and doing a postdoc @Meta in the meantime! I’m at ACL in person and recruiting students who want to find fresh approaches to working with generative models so if that’s you let’s chat!

@svpino Am curious how the curriculum could be streamlined and adapted for use by humanitarian actors interested in applications of CS and AI for good?

Here is a completely free Computer Science curriculum for those with the discipline to go through it independently. The curriculum follows the same degree requirements as an undergraduate computer science major and consists of courses from Harvard, MIT, and Princeton, among other colleges. The curriculum has four major sections: 1. Introduction: Students can review this section and decide whether this fits them. 2. Core: This section corresponds to the first three college years. 3. Advanced: This section corresponds to the final year of a Computer Science curriculum in college. 4. Final Project: Students can validate, consolidate, and display their knowledge by completing this project. Assuming you spend around 20 hours per week, you can finish in two years. I won't lie: completing a curriculum like this alone will be hard. Having the support of professors and other students is very important, but if you have the discipline and the will, this material is amazing. The link to the repository is on the screenshot and its ALT description.

Check out this podcast that we collaborate on: promocards.byspotify.com/share/fd276a70…

Today we're sharing new progress on our AI speech work. Our Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) project has now scaled speech-to-text & text-to-speech to support over 1,100 languages — a 10x increase from previous work. Details + access to new pretrained models ⬇️

@fooobar Curious what you’re interested in doing relative to document foundation models? Maybe you wanna give a talk on the subject to our Humanitarian AI meetup group members?

We are looking for a Student Researcher to join Google Research Bangalore to advance the state of the art in document foundation models. Candidates need to be currently enrolled in a PhD program with a strong background in ML/Vision research. Please RT/Like for reach. DMs open

Getting labeled data for clinical NLP can be prohibitively difficult. In work at #emnlp2022, we find that GPT-3 models perform very well at clinical tasks in the few-shot setting, indicating a new paradigm for transforming EHR notes into actionable data news.mit.edu/2022/large-lan…

The Sixth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society will be held at Le Palais des congrès de Montreál in Montreal, Canada August 8-10, 2023. Register for #AIES23 by June 30 to get the early bird discount ➡️ aies-conference.com/2023/

Next Tues. 5/16! "From Theory to Practice: Building Ethical and Trustworthy AI" Registration: myumi.ch/qG2ex We're surrounded by AI every day: self-driving cars, facial recognition, ChatGPT. But, do we fully comprehend the ethical implications in its use & regulation?

Congratulations to my PhD student @JacksonAKillian for successfully defending his PhD thesis focused on #AIforPublicHealth "Improving Engagement with Public Health Programs via Restless Bandits". Thank you committee @maiamajumder, @roboticwrestler, David Parkes.

📣 Just announced! Join live us on May 18th for #AtScaleMetaAI, a one-day virtual event sharing a look at the next generation of AI infrastructure and innovations powering Meta’s products and services today and in the future. RSVP ⬇️

@zanneth @localghost Perhaps an easy question but how do you input the book and what promos do you use to specifically query just it?

@localghost This works great for fiction as well. I’ve been using ChatGPT to ask about some of the more complex story elements of a sci-fi book I’m reading called “A Deepness in the Sky.” Having a conversation with an AI about a book I’m reading is just so much fun.

1. Embed a book into GPT-3 / ChatGPT. 2. Talk directly to the book to learn. Learn from a book through conversation, questions, and in the order you want.

@localghost Super cool!