Davis AI at Colby College. All opinions expressed here are my own; I do not speak for my employer or associates. they/she. not all those who wander are lost.
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Amanda Stent retweeted
[1/5] Introducing VisDiff - an #AI tool that describes differences in image sets with natural language.
VisDiff can summarize model failures, compare models, find nuanced dataset differences, discover what makes an image memorable, and so much more!
understanding-visual-dataset…
Amanda Stent retweeted
“Many articles [...] that compare with weak baselines, exaggerate claims, fail to report full computational costs, completely ignore limitations of the work, or otherwise fail to provide sufficient information, data or code to reproduce the results.”
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Amanda Stent retweeted
New from me, and I think important:
How do we regulate AI?
Here's how:
techpolicy.press/the-pillars…
Even includes some charts to fill out, for direct operationalisation within a tech company.
(1/n)🧵
Amanda Stent retweeted
With the OpenAI clownshow, there's been renewed media attention on the xrisk/"AI safety" nonsense. Personally, I've had a fresh wave of reporters asking me naive questions (+ some contacts from old hands who know how to handle ultra-rich man-children with god complexes). 🧵1/
Amanda Stent retweeted
I have no details of OpenAI's Board’s reasons for firing Sam, and I am conflicted (lead of Scalable Alignment at Google DeepMind). But there is a large, very loud pile on vs. people I respect, in particular Helen Toner and Ilya Sutskever, so I feel compelled to say a few things.
Amanda Stent retweeted
Now is probably the time to announce that I've been writing a book about @OpenAI, the AI industry & its impacts. Here is a slice of my book reporting, combined with reporting from the inimitable @cwarzel. Inside the year of chaos that led to this weekend. theatlantic.com/technology/a…
Amanda Stent retweeted
Colby students, faculty, and staff, please join us tomorrow, October 13th, from 12-2PM on the steps of Olin Science Center. Free food, music, swag, a student pitch, and inspiring innovators and entrepreneurs from Colby's past and the Maine startup ecosystem
#ai #colbycollege
Amanda Stent retweeted
Next Tuesday, Prof. Lindsay Grace will be coming to Colby! Read more about Prof. Grace in last week's newsletter (or this week's coming soon), and we hope to see you on Tuesday!
#ai #artificialintelligence #ml #machinelearning #davisai #colbycollege
Amanda Stent retweeted
Your Face Belongs To Us is out in the world today! penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
It starts with a shocking tip that I got a few years ago: a radical startup had scraped a billion faces from the internet without people’s consent to build a face recognition app for the police. (1/11)
Amanda Stent retweeted
This week's newsletter hit your inbox yesterday. Give it a look if you haven't already!
#davisai #ai #datascience #colbycollege
Amanda Stent retweeted
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/su… #NLProc
Amanda Stent retweeted
Get ready for the next Davis AI Hackathon on September 23rd in partnership with Iteris!
This event will have snacks, hands-on AI experience, and alumni interactions!
#davisai #colbycollege #ai #hackathon
Amanda Stent retweeted
New blog: Problems in using LLMs in commercial products
ehudreiter.com/2023/08/24/ll…
Amanda Stent retweeted
Reminder - for the terrific interdisciplinary Text as Data conference, abstract submissions coming up - due Aug 4!
tada2023.org/
It's a great, small, non-archival conference to discuss emerging work with folks across social sciences, humanities, and computer science.
Amanda Stent retweeted
An annotated list of #ai #ml #cloud resources for non-compute-heavy #academic institutions! medium.com/@ajstent/lets-tal… Your comments very welcome
Amanda Stent retweeted
🌟✨🎉NLP Reproducibility Checklist Analysis!🎉✨🌟 (ACL)
We analyzed *all (anonymous) submission data* to 4 major NLP confs (10,000+ submissions!)
Many results! arxiv.org/abs/2306.09562
w/ @IanMagnusson @nlpnoah
1. More "Yes" checklist items correlates with higher acceptance!
Amanda Stent retweeted
🎙️New podcast! A Conversation with Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal
I spoke with @mer__edith about Signal's posture on legislation such as the UK Online Safety Bill, how the organization thinks about safety, and its role in the digital ecosystem:
techpolicy.press/a-conversat…
Amanda Stent retweeted
As a member of the National AI Advisory Committee advising the President, I'm grateful to learn from community leaders and experts about AI and civil and human rights, work and worker rights in 4 public sessions over the next 2 weeks. Register to watch: ai.gov/naiac/#MEETINGS
Amanda Stent retweeted
"Diana insists that the technical is itself cultural and, furthermore, that AI researchers have a ... culture that is characterized by features such as technical bias; decontextualized thinking; ... and a tendency to believe that there is only one correct interpretation"
Amanda Stent retweeted
@doEWEMIZme told me about Studying Those Who Study Us, by Diana Forsythe, which features this prescient and damning profile of #AI: “As in other scientific communities, AI researchers tend to think that they do not have a culture. They are instead 'purely' technical." (1/2)