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Tuesday’s musings from #AWSreInvent.

Amazon Rufus is an expert shopping assistant powered by GenAI. We’re hiring LLM/RL talents to work on an array of intellectually challenging science questions. Come join us in this exciting (and fun) adventure!

Overleafing with your coauthors

@manningcics @manasa_k_ @ubicomp Congrats @manasa_k_ !

🏆 PhD student Manasa Kalanadhabhatta @manasa_k_ has received the 2023 @ubicomp Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award, recognizing contributions to the field of ubiquitous computing and wearable health monitoring. Read more: brnw.ch/21wEeVK

@manasa_k_ @ubicomp @TRahmanRifat Congratulations!!!

It was an honor to receive the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award @ubicomp last night! I am grateful to my advisors @TRahmanRifat and Deepak Ganesan for their constant support and to the award committee for recognizing the challenging but impactful nature of my work 🙏

“Alexa, talk large language models to me.”😉Our latest LLM has been significantly optimized for voice and the things we know our customers love — like having access to real-time information, efficiently controlling your smart home, and getting the most out of home entertainment.

Coming to you live from our 2023 Devices & Services Event at Amazon’s HQ2 in Arlington, Virginia, where AI takes center stage. There's so much new, cool stuff we have to share – we're so excited for how these updates will improve our customers' everyday lives. Let’s get into it. ⬇️

@kalpeshk2011 @MohitIyyer @andrewmccallum @HamedZamani @YejinChoinka @Google Congratulations!

Happy to share that I've defended my PhD thesis! A big thank you to my advisor @MohitIyyer and my committee @andrewmccallum, @HamedZamani and @YejinChoinka for all their support and feedback! Next step: I am super excited to be joining @Google Bard as a Research Scientist!

@mjasimcs @nargesmahyar @hci_vis @ali_sarvghad @MohitIyyer @SheelaghCarp Congratulations man!!! 🎉🎉

Successfully defended my Ph.D. All thanks to my advisor @nargesmahyar for giving me a home at the @hci_vis lab when I was a stray, and for years of guidance. I am also grateful to my committee @ali_sarvghad @MohitIyyer and Sheelagh for their support. On to the next adventure!

@limufar Congratulations!! 🎉🎊

Defended 🤺 my thesis “Auditing safety risks of large language models” today! It’s been a bumpy ride, with covid, having to change advisors and *drum roll 🥁* getting Guillain Barré syndrome & hospitalized in the UAE after EMNLP in December 🏁 Slides: tinyurl.com/audit-llm

PhD should be called RLAF. (Reinforcement Learning with Advisor Feedback)

@whybansal @imkelvinxu @AnthropicAI Do you have that Google form link somewhere?

Sooo, since I don't see anyone asking, how does one qualify for beta access to Claude? @AnthropicAI

@aditimavalankar @DeepMind Congratulations! :D

Super stoked to be back at @DeepMind in London this time as a Research Scientist in the Open-Endedness team! I look forward to working with all my brilliant colleagues here!

On a new note, I’m on the job market for summer 2023! Looking for industrial research positions in ML, distributed systems, edge computing and/or privacy. If you or someone you know is looking for a candidate, please let me know! #jobmarket #phdgrad #AcademicTwitter

@pshenoy @akanksha_atrey Congratulations @akanksha_atrey ! 🥳🥳

Congratulations to @akanksha_atrey for successfully defending her thesis proposal! Her thesis is at the intersection of privacy, #MachineLearning and distributed systems.

@Adam_D_Cobb @StarHistoryHQ 🥳🥳

Nice to see hamiltorch is still going strong :) github.com/AdamCobb/hamil… You can check out your own GitHub star history using star-history.com #starhistory via @StarHistoryHQ

Here's a picture with my amazing committee: Ben Marlin (advisor), Deepak Ganesan, @MajiSubhransu , and @andrewgwils !

Some news: Earlier this week, I successfully defended my PhD thesis, bringing an end to my almost five years here at UMass! Grateful to everyone who has been a part of this journey - my family, friends, advisor, committee, collaborators, and everyone else.

Very excited to present Minerva🦉: a language model capable of solving mathematical questions using step-by-step natural language reasoning. Combining scale, data and others dramatically improves performance on the STEM benchmarks MATH and MMLU-STEM. goo.gle/3yGpTN7