You can also speak your mind, have real conversations, and real disagreements on Threads, LinkedIn and Facebook.
You just get fewer bots, fewer trolls, fewer empty insults and more substantial discussions.
@ylecun
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Quality Discussions Online: Fewer Bots, More Substance
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Why Evil Groups Struggle With Advanced Technology Adoption
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Evil groups aren't well positioned to take advantage of the latest technology because they're evil: it's difficult for them to recruit competent and educated people.
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Princeton Symposium on Safe Foundation Models in Robotics
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Giving an invited talk at the Princeton Symposium on Safe Deployment of Foundation Models in Robotics today at 10:40. My Meta-FAIR colleague @RoozbehMottaghi is speaking at 4:30.
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India Accelerates AI Deployment Through Open Source Platforms
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Wonderful dialog with iSPIRT about how India could accelerate the deployment of AI and increase its participation in the AI R&D ecosystem.
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Wage Equality and Income Distribution: Understanding Relative Inequality
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Yes, but when all wages increase by the same percentage, the spread of the distribution of wages relative to the mean doesn't change. In other words, the ratio between the incomes of, say, the top 10% and the bottom 10% stays the same.
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Fascism Risks in Technology Development and Governance
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They know a thing or two about fascism: what it looks like, how it gains power, how it remains in power, and how it never ends well.
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Publishing Research vs Deploying Practical Military AI Systems
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There is a big distance between a set of basic methods (backprop, ConvNet, transformer, LLM…) and a *practical* system that can be deployed to assist soldiers. The former can be published and open sourced. The latter not so much.
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DoD Agencies Fund Academic AI Research Through Contract Categories
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DARPA, ONR, AFOSR, and other DoD agencies fund academic research that is published and openly accessible.
They have categories for different types of contracts 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, ….
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Meta’s Open Source AI Technology Fuels Thousands of Startups
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Tell that to the thousands of startups that exist solely because of Meta's open source AI technology.
I'm not just talking about the numerous LLM startups that popped up in the last 1.5 years because of Llama.
I'm also talking about OpenAI and Anthropic, both of which use -
Hard labor statistics data from National Bureau and Federal Reserve
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It's not an opinion.
It's hard numbers from the National Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Federal Reserve.