I believe in the power of technology to augment human potential. @Microsoft AI Platform, OpenAI Runtime & RL. Being @ https://teapawt.net/t.co/9aSfOJOaJO. Tweets my own. he/him
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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.
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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)
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When people fully absorb the impact of this stunning new brain study @AllenInstitute, 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
So excited our single-cell transcriptomic survey of the adult human brain is on bioRxiv! @slinnarsson @MossiAlejandro @ka_wai_rine @ErnestArenasSWE A really fun collaboration with Rebecca Hodge, Trygve Bakken, Ed Lein and others at the @AllenInstitute doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.12.5…
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Thanks for the rabbit hole! softwareengineering.stackexc…. Am I really just a patchwork rationalist?
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.
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This morning we kicked off our new project "Adapting digital community scorecard for Strengthening the Voice of Women Garment Workers (SVW)”. @CAREinCambodia, #YCC, #ACT, #CWCC, #CWPD #worker-voice
How might we enable factory workers to assess their work conditions? This morning we kicked off our new project "Adapting digital community scorecard for Strengthening the Voice of Women Garment Workers (SVW)” with @CAREinCambodia #YCC #ACT #CWCC #CWCD and factory workers.
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Who will be first to add this new island to OpenStreetMap? openstreetmap.org/node/92707…
Home Reef Erupts
Eleven hours after the eruption began on Sept. 10, 2022, a new island rose above the water surface.
🛰️#Landsat 9 captured this natural-color view of the young island on September 14, 2022, as plumes of discolored water circulated nearby.
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ALT Landsat 9 image showing new island on Home Reef, a plume of smoke and discolored, sediment-laden waters.
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.
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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."
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#publichealth @iLabSEA @EndingPandemics
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.
Y’all are great data scientists but what’s the point of all this AI if I can’t deep-fake myself into the Swedish Chef (accent and all) during a Teams call.
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…