As a student, your advisor should be the one funding conference travel to "meaningful" venues. As an advisor, I don't think I would fund travel to an event like this for-profit industry I was invited to (not worth their time or the money).
@thegautamkamath
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Academic Conference Equity: Unpaid Speaking Invitations in AI
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When I started as an Assistant Prof in 2019, I was invited to speak at a for-profit conference (targeted at industry, $2000/ticket). Wouldnt even cover travel (!), & hoped Waterloo/my grants would. Only now realize how rude it was. Headliner: Y. Bengio. Think he did it for free?
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Canada invests $324M in ML research at UofT and UMontreal
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This is a massive Canadian investment into a number of promising ventures. Most excited by $200M to @UofT
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Theory Community Warmth Inspires Next Generation Researchers
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My first conference was STOC 2012 in NYC, just before I started grad school. I remember how warm the theory community was, especially folks in my future PhD program, and it made me so excited to start. Really glad the next generation is feeling the same magic.
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CS Perspective on Disinformation Panel Discussion
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Was a lot of fun adding a CS/tech perspective to this panel on disinformation. Hopefully I didn't spread any myself! Super fun talking to knowledge people outside my usual circles. Thanks @b_momani for the invitation and organizing.
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Watermarking AI Text: Detectability and Open-Source Model Implications
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Wouldn't be surprised if they soon do. But:
a) It seems likely that watermarked or detectable text can be (auto?) paraphrased into something that is no longer detectable
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Gautam Kamath Named Canada CIFAR AI Chair
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See also this photo taken and article written by @UWCheritonCS
's amazing communication officer, Joe Petrik. https://
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math-among-eight-canada-cifar-ai-chairs-named
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Canadian AI Chair Appointment at Vector Institute Announced
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Excited to announce that I've been appointed as a Canada @CIFAR_News AI Chair & a Faculty Member at @VectorInst
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ML Twitter toxicity rises amid platform changes and hype culture
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It's a confluence of factors, but ML Twitter has felt much less enjoyable recently.
1. Elon Twitter and associated changes;
2. The rise of hype and "AI influencers"; and importantly,
3. Marked increase in toxicity and personal attacks.
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Math and Computing Contests Among Researchers: 75% Participation Rate
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I've noticed a lot of researchers participated in math or computing contests. These results show that 75% of researchers who had the opportunity to participate did so. Not surprising, since both contests and research are beyond regular academic expectations.