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I believe in the power of technology to augment human potential. @Microsoft AI Platform, OpenAI Runtime & RL. Being @ https://t.co/9aSfOJOaJO. Tweets my own. he/him

Planet earth, mostly Seattle Katılım Nisan 2007
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edjez@edjez·
@locob @emollick The real question- so what do you do when the generated avatar starts blinking in Morse code 👀
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Locob@locob·
@emollick there are differences. real you don't move your head as much. your lips don't stick when you talk, the head movement of AI seems to have a recognizable pattern, and eyes with weird blinking
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@ScottMoura @paulg It’s interesting how we have to start challenging our assumption that getting great PhD students has anything to do with great letters - high quality string outputs is not the essence of a successful researcher.
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Scott Moura@ScottMoura·
Recently, I've received an uptick in emails requesting PhD admission. The emails are remarkably similar. I did an experiment and they match almost perfectly.
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edjez@edjez·
@jetdillo I don’t think we are looking at “What went wrong with conversational AI”. We are learning the vulnerabilities and safeguards. Remember when nobody knew about cross site scripting?. These “attacks” are just the AI-era Bobby Tables: xkcd.com/327/
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edjez@edjez·
@jetdillo And teenagers soul searching on Reddit.
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edjez@edjez·
From the Wet Pavement Causes Rain Dept: How surprising it is that a language model parrots out edgy and tortured answers to questions on self consciousness! They’re so uncannily similar to sci-fi tropes we’ve come to expect! And written so much about in blogs and fiction!
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John Langford
John Langford@JohnCLangford·
We (the Real World Reinforcement Learning group at Microsoft Research) are looking to hire, even in a year of serious economic uncertainty: aka.ms/rl_hiring , including intern, postdoc, and researcher positions. Please apply by Dec. 9th if this matches your interest.
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Nat Friedman@natfriedman·
text-davinci-003 👀
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Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy@karpathy·
The Transformer is a magnificient neural network architecture because it is a general-purpose differentiable computer. It is simultaneously: 1) expressive (in the forward pass) 2) optimizable (via backpropagation+gradient descent) 3) efficient (high parallelism compute graph)
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Gary Marcus
Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus·
When people fully absorb the impact of this stunning new brain study @AllenInstitute, a few years hence, they will wonder what neural net researchers were even trying to do in the early 2020s, oversimplifying so much vital neural complexity. great🧵on 1000s of types of neurons
Kimberly Siletti@kimsiletti

So excited our single-cell transcriptomic survey of the adult human brain is on bioRxiv! @slinnarsson @MossiAlejandro @ka_wai_rine @ErnestArenasSWE A really fun collaboration with Rebecca Hodge, Trygve Bakken, Ed Lein and others at the @AllenInstitute doi.org/10.1101/2022.1…

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edjez@edjez·
@judsonalthoff @Haleon_health @Microsoft 🙌 to the SeeingAI team! Wondering what wonderful things they’ll invent with the combination of mobile HW features, large language models, and multimodal audio capabilities. Affordability and easy access to assistive technologies is a game changer, phones+AI enables that.
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Judson Althoff
Judson Althoff@judsonalthoff·
@Haleon_health and @Microsoft are collaborating via the Microsoft Seeing AI app to enhance health inclusivity for users who are blind or have low vision. With the app, they can now generate an audio guide for Haleon products ranging from Emergen-C to Sensodyne.
Microsoft News and Stories@MSFTnews

.@Haleon_health and @Microsoft are collaborating to help blind and low vision users lead more independent lives with the ability to scan Haleon products, from Centrum to ChapStick, and generate an audio guide for the labels on the Microsoft Seeing AI app. msft.it/6015dOQuP

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edjez@edjez·
@mikeymckay If you’re into Winograd- have you seen Understanding Computers and Cognition? I find it is an underrated building block, with essential elements of AI agent design, and a nexus between the Silicon Valley and Flores-Maturana realms.
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ʎɐʞɔɯ ǝʞıɯ@mikeymckay·
@edjez A patchwork rationalist relies on micro-truths gleaned through common sense, ad hoc programming and knowledge acquired by interviewing experts. It's pragmatic: if it seems to be working, it's right. [tweaked the grammar to accommodate ist vs ism] ;-) hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/pape…
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edjez@edjez·
Models and APIs that are based on natural language, images and sounds are a first step to phenotropic programming and interoperability. Next tie them RL to agents with episodic Winograd’s speech-act state machines and things start getting interesting.
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edjez@edjez·
@mikeymckay But for example take the work @natfriedman was doing. With gpt3+ you could do a natural language interface to a travel bookings site. That is infinitely more robust *for computer to computer interoperability* than some dumb json-based static APIs to find and book travel.
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edjez@edjez·
@mikeymckay Wait wut. you have invented a new combination of words. Add this to your Wikipedia page!
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edjez@edjez·
@profgalloway This is great only for those in privilege, regardless of their intent towards others. I’d love to see a meta-study on who brings this topic up again and again, and the arguments and counter-arguments brought forth over time?
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Lily O’Farrell@lily_ofarrell·
A cartoon about gendered voice assistants 💅 (1/3)
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Channe Suy Lan
Channe Suy Lan@s_channe·
This morning we kicked off our new project "Adapting digital community scorecard for Strengthening the Voice of Women Garment Workers (SVW)”. @CAREinCambodia, #YCC, #ACT, #CWCC, #CWPD #worker-voice
kawsang@kawsangtech

How might we enable factory workers to assess their work conditions? This morning we kicked off our new project "Adapting digital community scorecard for Strengthening the Voice of Women Garment Workers (SVW)” with @CAREinCambodia #YCC #ACT #CWCC #CWCD and factory workers.

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edjez@edjez·
@chrimbs @WardCunningham TDD enables a form of PP that has a rhythm and structure - it makes it natural to have a dialogue where you and I discuss what we are seeing versus what we have learned in our career. That way it balanced power and creates a playful focus on the now.
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chrimbs@chrimbs·
@WardCunningham The sentence is very hard to parse for a non native speaker, IMO. Could it be rephrased in a simpler form. I also don't get the implication that TTD enables PP. I can PP w/o TDD.
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Ward Cunningham@WardCunningham·
XP prescribed a dozen practices that reinforce each other so as to allow teams to make software development decisions. We examine the distribution of responsibilities required for, and means to arrive at, good decisions within this framework. code.fed.wiki/xp-and-normati…
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mikel@mikel·
Who will be first to add this new island to OpenStreetMap? #map=19/-18.98898/-174.77193" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">openstreetmap.org/node/927073757…
ARCHIVED - NASA Landsat@NASA_Landsat

Home Reef Erupts Eleven hours after the eruption began on Sept. 10, 2022, a new island rose above the water surface. 🛰️#Landsat 9 captured this natural-color view of the young island on September 14, 2022, as plumes of discolored water circulated nearby. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150368/…

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