3) China has a massive data advantage with 1Bn+ people but much of the data lacks diversity (racial /cultural) for a global audience. TikTok bring an exception but then again it’s data practices should be looked at carefully @vonderleyen
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Overfitting in AI Research: Need Better Global Standards
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2) During lockdown my team and I explored a lot of the GitHubs from China based publishers & found quite a few claiming major breakthroughs to be overfitted. To be fair it also happens with some US researchers. AI needs better research standards globally. Don’t believe the hype!
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ICLR Code of Conduct and Organizer Authority Questioned
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The ICLR code of conduct (
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US dominance in AI innovation: transformers, GANs, and key breakthroughs
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1) most of the innovation in AI is still occurring via the US or US related entities (eg DeepMind). The key defining techniques such as Transformers with Self Attention, GANs, Federated Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Neurosymbolic AI all emerged in the West.
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Running Your Own Server for Complete Control
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That's one of the reasons I'm running my own server! Then at least if a rando gets bored and shuts it down that rando will be me
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Management Must Address AI Cascade Risk Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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Yup. It would be good for management to consider bow to stop the cascade, or it turns to self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Responding to Peer Reviews: Ethics and Professional Conduct
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How NOT to respond to reviewers. Getting paper reviews can be emotional, but try to be kind and not resort to personal attacks. Instead, this author chose to lash out, leading to impressively quick reprimand from the PC chairs. And there will be no anonymity after decisions.
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Lakehouse Technology Enables Personalization at Enterprise Scale
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The importance of personalization should not be slept on 1:1 customer experiences are essential for success, but scaling can feel like an impossible task. Learn how a #Lakehouse helps make 1:1 personalization at scale attainable and seamless https://
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For-Profit Social Media Networks and Algorithmic Polarization
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This paper makes an important argument as to why for-profit social media networks will always tend to encouraging polarizing moral outrage, even if that was not the original intent of the platform creators. https://
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Strategic errors cascade failures in AI systems
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Related thread on how strategic errors can lead to complex cascades of failures.