from the starship & the canoe: Freeman Dyson has expressed some thoughts on craziness. In a Scientific American article called "Innovation in Physics," he began by quoting Niels Bohr. Bohr had been in attendance at a lecture in which Wolfgang Pauli proposed a new theory of
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Google Open-Source Panic and the AI Data Race
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First week of Supervised is a wrap! Thank you to everyone for all your support—super excited to keep this rolling and hope you all enjoy the stories coming next week! In the mean time, here’s what’s from this week: https://
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ICLR 2023 in Rwanda: Reflections on Africa’s First Major AI Conference
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That’s a wrap! I had so many amazing conversations and learned so much from this year’s ICLR, the first major AI research conference in Africa. Here are my initial reflections. See you next time, Rwanda.
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Canadian AI Research Collaboration: CPI Event Success
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Thanks to CPI Associate Director Anindya Sen and @UWaterloo_CPI @uwaterlooAI for organizing, as well as partners @StatCan_eng @GovCanHealth @CIHI_ICIS for making the day a success!
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Vector Databases: Essential Infrastructure for AI Applications
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What is a Vector Database? | Pinecone We’re in the midst of the AI revolution. All of these new applications rely on vector embeddings, a type of data representation that carries within it semantic information https://
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Assembly Theory Explains Complex Life Origins and Evolution
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A New Theory for the Assembly of Life in the Universe | Quanta Magazine If we want to understand complex constructions, such as ourselves, assembly theory says we must account for the entire history of how such entities came to be. https://
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Closed-source AI models copyright compliance debate
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I know you don’t talk a lot about them but I’d be curious to know your stance on closed-source models one day Alex Like where do you think models that are being integrated everywhere today like GPT-4, Bard or Claude are standing on the scale of copyright compliance?
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Fastai Deep Learning and Karpathy YouTube Resources Praised
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Fastai’s deep learning for coders and karpathy’s YT are great!
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AI Developers Must Ensure Technology Benefits Before Causing Harm
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“[The people building AI] say it’s a world-changing technology. If that’s the case, then they have a duty to find ways for A.I. to make the world better without first making it worse.” Such an edifying piece.