Tim Walz's DNC speech was excellent, I just wish they let his brother Christoph speak too.

What I find most concerning here is that statisticians and data scientists are no longer needed as data now makes its own predictions! 😱

This house looks the way Trump's campaign feels right now.

“Real-world” AI as opposed to…?

We're searching for a research group leader in topological data analysis! MPI-CBG Dresden Center for Systems Biology Dresden TU Dresden These are wonderful independent positions to start a research group in mathematics for the life sciences. Deadline is October 4th. Please share! bit.ly/3YYAU9M

New piece out with my colleague Zach Arnold, laying out some basic common-sense policies that people with a wide range of views on AI could get behind: -Building govt capacity -Better measurement -Independent auditing -Disclosure -Incident tracking -Liability 🧵:

1/ Hi Oprah Winfrey . This event will be the first time many people will get info on Generative Ai. However it is shaping up to be a misinformed marketing event staring vested interests (some who are under a litany of lawsuits) who ignore the harms GenAi inflicts on communities NOW 🧵

Any English professors care to weigh in on this? 🤔

Elon claims he’s for free speech and fair elections, then when he sees a post arguing that only “high status males” should have a vote and voice in society he QTs “Interesting observation.”

It me.

I've read many articles about individuals getting radicalized into far-right ideology by engagement-based social media algorithms, but I never expected to see it happen so quickly and prominently as it has with Elon Musk. Sad and scary to watch this happen in real time.

Spice blends are like cheat codes for cooking: they make food taste so much better yet add zero calories!

Not smart enough, or just don’t care? Because if one takes all your hype around AI/Grok at face value then one is left to infer the latter.

New episode of the AI in Academia podcast, co-hosted with Gaurav Shah, just dropped. This one features Melissa Hey, lecturer in environmental sciences Bentley University, sharing her experiences teaching in the age of AI. buzzsprout.com/2313219/156838…

🚨 New paper in Nature Communications 🚨 We created deepfakes of the current & former President Biden giving speeches (w/ voices from voice actors & ElevenLabs) to study what drives how well people can tell fake speeches from real ones Time to update the "Seeing is Believing" narrative 👇

Are all dogs like this?

If anyone has solved the alignment problem for 2yo humans lemme know.

Can’t imagine how this could possibly go awry.

It’s kind of reassuring to realize that the richest person on the planet is trying his hardest to swing the U.S. Presidential election in his favor and he’s most likely going to fail at doing so. Gives some hope that democracy can still stand up to unfathomable wealth.