Ryan Brush

Had an insightful conversation with @geoffreyhinton about AI and catastrophic risks. Two thoughts we want to share: (i) It's important that AI scientists reach consensus on risks-similar to climate scientists, who have rough consensus on climate change-to shape good policy. (ii) Do AI models understand the world? We think they do. If we list out and develop a shared view on key technical questions like this, it will help move us toward consensus on risks. I learned a lot speaking with Geoff. Let’s all of us in AI keep having conversations to learn from each other!

Some folks reached out with opportunities for engineering and related roles in health tech in case I was impacted by layoffs. Fortunately for me I was not, but wanted to pass it along. If you were impacted and are looking for a new spot, let me know and I'll make connections.

What a difficult day. My thoughts are with all of my colleagues at Google who are impacted by the layoffs.

@mkwhit @michellebrush Yes, in one of the finest Pizza Huts the greater Des Moines area had to offer.

You know you're with someone special when they prominently display your greatest achievement in the newly renovated home office. Love you @michellebrush!

With #CareStudio you can easily search for anything in your patient’s chart including faxes, handwritten notes, & digital documents, so you can see where care is needed. See us at #HLTH2022 to learn how we’re helping care teams identify gaps in care. → g.co/health/carestu…

@michellebrush @QConSF Updating my job title to "a contributing factor" now.

Looking around the room, a lot more folks are interested in the idea of blameless accountability than I expected. I blame @ryanbrush for overselling my @QConSF talk. Wait, that's blameful... I suspect Ryan was a contributing factor.

The night before my @QConSF talk my biggest fear is folks won't find my duck cake fail images funny. That being said, if you want a discussion of blame, accountability, motivation, and legibility interspersed with some duck cakes, here's my talk: qconsf.com/presentation/o…

@ryanbrush Dammit Ryan. I want the power of low expectations.

Everyone at #qconsf needs to go see @michellebrush's session and talk. It'll be mind-blowing and change your life and I'm totally not trolling my spouse by posting this.

@Saboo_Shubham_ Love this quote. Here's the original since a citation seems needed here:

Some people wake up every morning and choose chaos.

You know it's going to be a good show when the band breaks out the light-up sousaphone, and DeVotchKa did not disappoint.

@VNeilley @Google Congrats and well deserved, Vivian!

today is my first day as a @Google product manager and that is pretty freakin’ cool

@mkwhit @michellebrush BRB, commissioning an opera about how everyone should call Micah and ask him to help move stuff with his truck.

Slightly worried about the opera @michellebrush might commission about some code I wrote 20 years ago that she had to maintain for a while...and still reminds me about.

Sometimes I get frustrated when I compare arts and tech salaries, but look tech people I'm not saying you are the problem I'm saying the exchange rate is in our favor and someone with a FAANG salary could literally commission their own opera once per year so we should do that

'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens bit.ly/3LL7T7p

Jill Lepore: “Women are indeed missing from the Constitution. That’s a problem to remedy, not a precedent to honor.” newyorker.com/news/daily-com…