Sure, ChatGPT is cool, but do you know what's cooler? Making language technologies happen, for communities who did not have access to them. Claytone Sikasote and I (but really mostly Claytone) have been on a two-year quest to create language technologies for Zambia 🇿🇲. Thread⬇️

Absolutely mesmerized by the no nonsense expressway connecting Delhi Jaipur!!

Its not possible to get a single (non-front row seat) IMAX ticket for Oppenheimer in Lincoln Sq. AMC Theatres for the next three weeks! Never seen this before in last 4 years for any movie. WOW!

Dear ACL community, ACL is considering multiple proposals to change its anonymity period policy. It seeks immediate feedback from the community about the proposed changes. Please add your voice until Friday, September 22nd (AOE): aclweb.org/portal/content… #NLProc

🚨 🔔 Paper alert in Speech Translation 🔔🚨 I'm super excited to release our accepted paper (@EMNLP-main) about dual speaker-turn-aware speech transcription and translation for conversational speech! abs: arxiv.org/abs/2311.00697 Amazon Science Idiap Research Institute EPFL

Maxwell's place in history just got guaranteed. It has to be the greatest white ball innings played

This is pretty much the best of Big Show ever! Its beyond any innings I have ever witnessed in cricket. I doubt anything can ever beat this! #maxwell #WorldCup2023

📣 📣 📣 New instruction-tuned LLM! 📣 📣 📣 Today, we announce an initial release of "Airavata", an instruction-tuned LLM for Hindi. Blog: ai4bharat.github.io/airavata/ Model: huggingface.co/ai4bharat/Aira… Datasets: huggingface.co/datasets/ai4bh… (1/N)

this is crazy good quality of videos!

Congratulations Elman Mansimov !!!

What do World Cup victories mean to us? I don’t mean the players; we all know the answer to that. But what does it mean to us, the fans, the ones who do nothing? I can tell you what it means to me. They say that before one dies, the moments that mattered in our life flash

Our paper on Audio-Visual Synchrony Evaluation grounded in human perception is accepted at **ECCV 2024** !! Congrats to the amazing Lucas Gonçalves and other authors! arxiv.org/abs/2404.07336 Code and data is also released and useful to evaluate new metrics in this space!

Today, Amazon announced its Trusted AI Challenge, which involves university students competing to securely advance large language models (LLMs) that code, and where $700,000 in cash prizes will be allocated across the top four performing teams. Learn more about the challenge and

RLHF is a popular method. It makes your human eval score better and Elo rating 🚀🚀. But really❓Your model might be “cheating” you! 😈😈 We show that LLMs can learn to mislead human evaluators via RLHF. 🧵below

Snoo Happiest Baby is not meant for NYC babies. The bassinet cannot distinguish ambulance siren vs a crying baby. Any passing by ambulance causes Snoo to increase level of motion! 🤦‍♂️

If you're at #ECCV2024 do visit our poster (PS 4 session) at 10:30 AM local time tomorrow. Neither me nor Lucas Gonçalves could travel to the conference but amazing Kaustav Kundu will be presenting our work! European Conference on Computer Vision #ECCV2026

Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC) is celebrating 25 years of language research. Details at ltrc.iiit.ac.in/silver-jubilee/

My 6 month old is picking up our commands to Alexa and now she's trying to say the wake word.. she's super fascinated by it Alexa | Follow @amazonalexa