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@srush_nlp Therefore cannot what? What is the next word? If only there was a way to

Starting out "LLMs just generate the next-word, and therefore cannot..." is a great way to signal you are not making a serious argument.

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Was having a chat with a friend and this came up. What’s the real reason the major voice assistants aren’t hooked up to LLMs yet? My guess is liability and safety, but maybe computational cost?

Professional update: Earlier this month, I joined @SnorkelAI as a senior applied machine learning engineer. Snorkel is a company built on technology closely related to the topics I was researching. It’s a great fit for me, and I’m looking forward to seeing what we'll do together!

Today I learned there are flat-space-timers

Re: it being 80°F today star-bear.bandcamp.com/track/the-wind…

@Timmyqkdwkwjs All this is shocking to me. I'm so sorry my health issues began all this. Let me follow up with the department to fully understand the situation. This doesn't seem like how I'd expect them to treat a PhD student whose advisor got sick.

@berty38 Hey Bert, could you please help me move forward? Tufts told me to leave right after you departure. Specifically, they told me late April that they prefer me to leave in May.

Sooo... what is a good place I can find work as someone who knows how to artificial intelligence? Orgs that treat employees like humans plz. Also treat people like humans if possible.

I’m going to take some time to figure out what to do next professionally. I still hope to find a path where I can use my knowledge to make the world a better place—all while having the balance to take care of myself and do other things I love in addition to work. Bert 2/2

Dear friends, I’ve spent the past year on leave from work for personal health reasons. Now, with a lot of other life changes, I’ve finalized the decision to leave Tufts this summer.

@mmitchell_ai “Words have lost all meaning” feels like an appropriate summary of this.

Wait, what? AI people, are you(/we) starting to call any self-supervised model trained on sequences a large language model? That's...confusing. And is going to break the general public's brain. (Also mine.) nature.com/articles/d4158…

@chesscom Luck

What is your worst chess advice in one word?

@ProZD An ice cream sandwich. Like bread ice cream bread.

The energy use for training large pretrained models is worth the investment of environmental costs because they can be reused everywhere is what I would say if there wasn’t a new giant model out every two weeks and also if we ever make one that’s not racist.

Thanks, Obama

hi, are you doomscrolling?

The universal challenge in machine learning research is to create a table of numbers where a new number is bold and slightly higher than the other numbers.

Sometimes I wonder if my papers are being reviewed by collusion rings.

It's my birthday, and a great present would be if you checked out my new album from my hobby music project, Star Bear.

@mlittmancs @lizzo The last sentence of your tweet!

Listened to @lizzo 's "About Damn Time" repeatedly and now I can't get trochaic dimeter words out of my head: Diatonic jalapeño neuroscience pterodactyl. Underpowered barometric eucalyptus rhinoplasty. It's distracting when I'm watching scientific presentations.