Finally!! Teams lets me send chat messages to myself. A feature I dearly missed from Slack.

Internet ideas for a tidy home office: An artisanal wooden tray for your 6 paper clips. Meanwhile my home office: please meet the oscilloscope, microscope, the HAM radio gear, server rack, kid space things, sat phones, electronic components, 100s of books, photo lens, infrar…

We all hope you find this effort useful. I think it's made a big leap forward in so many different aspects of "Responsible" AI work. </🧵>

The intro sequence to the series “For All Mankind” is an understated masterpiece. It tells a whole story - an inspiring, cosmic-scale story; maybe, our story.

Proud to share our recently published paper in the Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific: "Cambodia national health hotline - Participatory surveillance for early detection and response to disease outbreaks." sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #publichealth iLab Southeast Asia @EndingPandemics

As AI becomes better at images, music, film, and poetry; it brings something I learned from Jaron Lanier: Some art has profound meaning and impact *because* we know another human has felt it, imagined, and performed it. If you are an artist, know AI doesn’t take that away.

Who will be first to add this new island to OpenStreetMap? openstreetmap.org/node/927073757…

This morning we kicked off our new project "Adapting digital community scorecard for Strengthening the Voice of Women Garment Workers (SVW)”. CARE Cambodia, #YCC, #ACT, #CWCC, #CWPD #worker-voice

A cartoon about gendered voice assistants 💅 (1/3)

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.

edjez Thanks for the rabbit hole! softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2233…. Am I really just a patchwork rationalist?

When people fully absorb the impact of this stunning new brain study Allen Institute, 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

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)

text-davinci-003 👀

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.

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!