this is wrong. aleksander is working on a new and v important research project, and joaquin and lilian are taking over the preparedness team as part of unifying our safety work. aleksander will continue to support preparedness work in various ways.
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Visa and travel barriers exclude African researchers from AI conferences
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I think it is more nuanced. It is true that visas exclude people, and sadly even among African countries visas are an issue. There is also bias in the sense that these meetings mostly occur in Europe and north America. It is costly and demanding to travel to these conferences
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Can Robots Feel Music and Authentic Empathy?
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Could a robot be moved by music? Could robots have authentic feelings and empathy? A short talk I gave at @DCameron84
's AI-empathy conference which includes my "origin story" in working at the intersection of emotions and robots. https://
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Meta Commits to Open Source AI for Broader Global Access
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As Mark Zuckerberg shared in an open letter this morning: we believe that open source will ensure that more people around the world have access to the benefits and opportunities of AI, that power isn't concentrated in the hands of a small few, and that the technology can be
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AI Risk: Misconceptions About Statistical Nature of AI
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IMO, the biggest risk from #ai is people thinking it is something it isn't. Right now, it is sophisticated statistics with little conceptualization. (Humans work by stats too btw, we just aren't as good at it. And we have an advantage of concepts, but that's another path.)
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Tech Billionaires Political Backing and Republican Party Support
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There's also a fundamental misunderstanding (or willful misrepresentation) of the motivations of people in tech, which @PeteButtigieg summarizes:
— Packy McCormick (@packyM) 23 juillet 2024
"These are very rich men who have decided to back the Republican party that tends to do good things for very rich men.”
Democrats… pic.twitter.com/WgBWilvxh3There's also a fundamental misunderstanding (or willful misrepresentation) of the motivations of people in tech, which @PeteButtigieg summarizes: "These are very rich men who have decided to back the Republican party that tends to do good things for very rich men.” Democrats
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Paper Rejections and Awards: Questioning Peer Review Reliability
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b) This paper was effectively rejected three times, and then received a best paper award. Were the rejecting reviewers wrong? Or were the #ICML2024 reviewers? I don't know, most important is that I really like the paper. In either case, don't take paper awards too seriously. 21/n
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Career Rejection and Resilience in Academic Research
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There aren't "supposed" to be takeaways here, just sharing my personal experience. Nonetheless:
a) Rejections can sting at all stages of your career. I'm pretty used to it by now. And a single paper doesn't change my career. But I still took this one really hard. 20/n -
Research Award Recognition and Shifting Career Priorities
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And two weeks ago, we were lucky to hear that we got a best papers award. Thank you reviewers, committee, track chair @marsdancer
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ICML2024 Position Paper on Privacy in Machine Learning
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But then the #ICML2024 position paper track was fatefully announced in Jan 2024. This is *exactly* the community we wanted to reach (broad ML). They're specifically asking for position papers. They even had privacy in ML in their CfP! After revising, submitted again. 16/n