Today marks the start of our 40th anniversary celebrations 🥳. Take a look back on 40 years of innovation as we look ahead to the next 40: bit.ly/3NNH842 #CIFAR40

It’s only impossible until it’s not. Time for the next 40 years of championing innovation and challenging the next generation to defy the impossible. #CIFAR40

"This is a perfect moment in time... to really accelerate our digital transformation." Mark Daley has been appointed #WesternU's first-ever chief #digital officer, and will lead the creation of a new Digital Western unit. #CdnPse #OnPse #LdnOnt daleymaths news.westernu.ca/2022/07/wester…

The success of ~6GB diffusion models in generating a rich variety of images suggests that my intuition for the Kolmogorov complexity of the human visual experience was off by at least a few orders of magnitude.

Work with us! Western Technology Services is looking for a Programmer/Analyst - Peoplesoft to join our dynamic team! Design, develop, test, and maintain Western's Peoplesoft admin system. Job information: ca.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=805… #ldnont #ITCareers #WesternU

Welcome back #westernu! Today's tip is to always connect to secured WiFi! Public networks can be risky & make your data vulnerable to being stolen. Make sure you use a secure connection when making purchases or banking online. Link in bio🔗 #privacy #data #cybersecurity #safe

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Is Peoplesoft your thing? Come join these fantastic people pushing the platform into the 2020s!

I am officially no longer the Engineering Manager for the Accessibility Experience Team at Twitter. I have words. 🧵

A response to Dennett's 'counterfeit people': markcomputes.substack.com/p/the-unimagin…

We’re releasing a guide for teachers using ChatGPT in their classroom — including suggested prompts, an explanation of how ChatGPT works and its limitations, the efficacy of AI detectors, and bias. openai.com/blog/teaching-…

do this do this! if you're an ECR (doctoral student or postdoc) doing consciousness research, this is a fabulous, fully funded opportunity!

The printing press scared a lot of people: the catholic church, the rulers of the Ottoman Empire (who banned it), even this Swiss physician. They all feared that books were too dangerous to be put in the hands of the public. In a way, they were all correct. Books weakened their

Western appoints Mark Daley as first-ever chief AI officer news.westernu.ca/2023/09/wester… via @westernu

“I believe this technology is societally transformative, & I feel a huge amount of agency right now to help make sure that transformation is the most positive thing it can be.” #WesternU chief #AI officer daleymaths spoke with Globalnews.ca about his role. brnw.ch/21wDauL

He’s the first-ever chief AI officer at a Canadian university. Since the introduction of the chatbot, the education sector has been scrambling to figure out whether to adapt, adopt or ban. Here are four institutions tackling it head-on. trib.al/KSm7iTn

A new chair in ethics and technology has been established at #WesternU thanks to a $1.5M gift from alum Tim Duncanson. As #AI reaches ever deeper into our lives, bringing an ethical lens to these emerging technologies is more critical than ever. brnw.ch/21wDGCj

Very happy to be quoted alongside François-Philippe Champagne (FPC) 🇨🇦 arguing for responsible open innovation in AI. Western University Vector Institute

Leaving the AI Safety Summit after some constructive discussions today and yesterday. I voiced how open-source was today the safest way to develop AI, putting this transformative technology under the highest level of scrutiny. With many others, we recalled the enormous

David Deutsch: "We have a duty to be optimistic. Because the future is open, not predetermined and therefore cannot just be accepted: we are all responsible for what it holds. Thus it is our duty to fight for a better world."