2020-09-10 13:08:00 RT @IntHealthAI: Missed it? You can see @GaryMarcus and @glichfield headliner “COVID19 should be a wake up call for AI” on demand on our p… 2020-09-10 04:03:12 RT @tribelaw: It’s looking like 3 out of every 4 people who’ve died of Covid-14 — that’s 135,000 human souls — would be alive today if only… 2020-09-10 04:00:52 RT @H_MitchellPhoto: Every newspaper across America should call for @realDonaldTrump’s resignation tomorrow... and the next day... and the… 2020-09-10 04:00:05 RT @DrDenaGrayson: ‼Trump was warned about the threat of #coronavirus starting in JANUARY. Trump knew. Trump LIED. Now, nearly 200,000 A… 2020-09-10 03:42:22 @DrLukeOR @tdietterich ha ha. i should have made explicit “in the context of computational model solving hard problems with hard-won innate knowledge” :) 2020-09-10 03:01:39 @tdietterich but you won’t catch me saying right off the bat. 2020-09-10 02:37:56 @DoctorMemory @JoyceWhiteVance unfortunately his base can’t tell the difference 2020-09-10 02:37:32 since when did “right off the bat” come to mean “after perhaps $10 million training time, a staff costing maybe double that, immense carbon emissions, and 450 gigabytes of input data?” https://t.co/plQt9mqF9v2020-09-10 02:28:26 RT @JoyceWhiteVance: It’s as if a meteorologist knew there was an F5 tornado headed straight for you but told you it was a perfect day to g… 2020-09-09 21:09:45 RT @LeonaLioness6: Here are the tapes. #TrumpKnew https://t.co/4tZCrxR9Vj2020-09-09 20:03:11 RT @tscottphillips: This preprint seems to be a more elaborated test of what @GaryMarcus was testing for in the article above. The results… 2020-09-09 16:38:30 this man should be in jail for mass manslaughter, not running for office, much less President. https://t.co/vUSsAYwoVc2020-09-09 13:47:18 RT @k_zars: @P_Snejersons @IvetaKazoka Tieši tā, dažiem mērķiem, ko kopā kodolīgi varētu nosaukt sophisticated bullshit generator, tas robo… 2020-09-09 05:30:24 RT @WalterIsaacson: “I’m quitting because I can no longer stomach contributing to an organization that is profiting off hate." The 1,300-wo… 2020-09-09 04:05:13 RT @mattocko: Amazing. Must read. Any engineer at FB who wants to look their kids or family in the eye 10 years from now should think simil… 2020-09-09 03:16:13 @FenCameron ps 460k people with no masks and no social distance, together for long periods of times, mingling across geography, infecting each other and then other people. what # would you expect? every bit of related, relevant science suggests this was not a bright idea. 2020-09-09 03:13:22 @FenCameron I read the abstract 2020-09-09 02:50:10 would it be too much to ask to expect that people holding public office would have the basic ability to distinguish between scientific extrapolation and science fiction? https://t.co/KMehG5h5yU2020-09-09 02:44:35 @qhardy @govkristinoem she already has, in an unfortunate way, failing to distinguish between scientific extrapolation, and science fiction. to the untutored eye, perhaps they sound similar? 2020-09-09 02:06:27 U.S. biker rally may have led to 260,000 new COVID-19 cases. so far. https://t.co/aIgB35axwc2020-09-09 01:19:10 RT @WorldSummitAI: The world leaders in AI are here!9 episodes, 160 countries registered, 1 ticket gets you access to the entire series… 2020-09-08 22:01:17 @RhodesNeuroLing @kearonis @guardian the technical term/technique is embedding. with a corpus that by, that aspect works well, and not just at the single word level. 2020-09-08 21:54:57 @RhodesNeuroLing @kearonis @guardian if you memorize vast tracts (and do excellent synonym substitution) you can do pretty well. imagine just doing n-grams where n is 2048... 2020-09-08 13:24:05 @azeem @guardian they did, and they should at least online show the unedited essays, or they contribute to the public misunderstanding of AI’s current state. 2020-09-08 13:21:51 RT @nnosengo: "The Guardian could have just run one of the essays in its entirety [...] we chose instead to pick the best parts of each". I… 2020-09-08 13:19:49 @janexwang @frossi_t i continue to think that the conference would benefit from more cognitive science and less orthodoxy, but there many fine workshops here 2020-09-08 13:12:55 @janexwang @frossi_t i addressed this elsewhere several times yesterday. here’s an example 2020-09-08 13:06:17 Shame on @guardian for cherry-picking, thereby misleading naive readers into thinking that #GPT3 is more coherent than it actually is. Will you be making available the raw output, that you edited? https://t.co/xhy7fYTL0o2020-09-08 05:03:02 RT @EricTopol: Senegal crushed it and deserves recognition for their exemplary response to the pandemichttps://t.co/9VUhwhF2i3 @USATODAY @… 2020-09-08 04:31:18 truth https://t.co/R5pyIVM3KG2020-09-08 03:53:19 RT @frossi_t: @KyleCranmer @GaryMarcus I don’t think of these people as big names, but as the best people to present work and discuss chall… 2020-09-08 02:45:10 @neuro_data i support them having more cognitive science, and more challenges to the deep learning orthodoxy, which has left the field i a local minimum 2020-09-08 02:23:58 RT @GaryMarcus: postscript: this is probably one of most misinterpreted tweets, and I wish that I had made it a longer thread. my point… 2020-09-08 02:23:38 postscript: this is probably one of most misinterpreted tweets, and I wish that I had made it a longer thread. my point was not that famous people deserve a platform, it’s that NeurIPS doesn’t seem to welcome my brand of dissent, no matter who else might be on the program. 2020-09-08 02:21:12 @ccanonne_ yes i see that my post was misinterpreted 2020-09-08 02:20:34 totally agree w @KyleCranmer that names alone don’t make a good workshop. but it is characteristic of Twitter toxicity for people to pile on assuming I did, without reading my replymy intended point was about NeurIPS’ treatment of dissent & 2020-09-08 02:11:43 @ccanonne_ no, the emphasis is on the final sentence 2020-09-08 01:44:17 @j2bryson @zacharylipton @KyleCranmer @frossi_t if what you are saying is that people can be pretty judge mental without waiting for the facts, I agree. (and maybe in hindsight i would have done them in the other order) 2020-09-06 03:28:42 @gwern @wadkar @techreview @OpenAI profiting from “potentially dangerous”AI & 2020-09-06 01:40:12 @gwern @wadkar @techreview problem lies in (a) blurring between missions (b) fact that by charter @openAI inc (the nonprofit) is supposed to be providing arms-length oversight ofn the FP, but FP seems to behave in a way at odds with NP's stated mission (c) way FP leverages misleading name borrowed from NP 2020-09-06 01:29:28 @felipedebrigard i have had the same suspicion, and suspect that it was shown to Graham on a specific date in October 2017 when he went golfing with Trump: https://t.co/0lH0swPttH2020-09-06 01:21:15 1. What happened to Nikki Haley, since 2016?2. Odd that the same thing seems to have happened to Lindsey Graham (inter alia) around the same time. https://t.co/9DKDPmAr412020-09-05 23:52:28 still true. https://t.co/QMM5WHglZo2020-09-05 22:59:32 @IlennaJ this is cool. tagging @YiotaPoirazi 2020-09-04 23:40:39.@adriandix and Bonnie Henry you need to do more than grieve, or there will soon be many more deathsPlease make remote schooling a priority and mandate masks. https://t.co/KWqzotDNjn2020-09-04 15:29:54 @KordingLab @neuro_data and to be clear, I love the paper and encouraged you to write it :) sorry i can’t join. 2020-09-04 02:01:33 RT @allisonbraley: A conversation with the legendary @GaryMarcus on AI promises to be both insightful and memorable. Tune in! 2020-09-03 21:49:49 @EmergTechEthics @cto_maverick @fionajmcevoy @OpenAI @Google @amazon @Facebook @Twitter @Uber @Microsoft openAI & 2020-09-03 21:29:52 @cto_maverick @fionajmcevoy @OpenAI @EmergTechEthics can a company that has so thoroughly lost its moral compass even have a definition of ethics? 2020-09-03 20:14:45 I call bullshit: HHS Secretary Azar says Nov. 1 coronavirus vaccine deadline has 'nothing to do with elections' https://t.co/JSm8DVHge82020-09-03 20:10:55 @AlisonGopnik nice result. that said, Marcus et al 1999 showed that 7-month olds could understand abstract relations, even without Wizards involved. https://t.co/kaRKz6SIHS2020-09-03 18:17:56 @scottlegrand @OpenAI or maybe just enforce existing ones? 2020-09-03 17:08:45 @pbrane @greglinden @OpenAI @elonmusk well there is the dodgy tax angle, but also the fact that they are now engaging in the practice they were established to preclude, viz acting as a monopolistic actor with undue power to control a potentially dangerous technology. 2020-09-03 16:36:02 @pbrane @greglinden @OpenAI @elonmusk’s original intent was to keep DeepMind from having exclusive control over potentially dangerous AI, without commercial imperative. now OpenAI wants to profit from &stunning.
2020-09-10 13:08:00 RT @IntHealthAI: Missed it? You can see @GaryMarcus and @glichfield headliner “COVID19 should be a wake up call for AI” on demand on our p… 2020-09-10 04:03:12 RT @tribelaw: It’s looking like 3 out of every 4 people who’ve died of Covid-14 — that’s 135,000 human souls — would be alive today if only… 2020-09-10 04:00:52 RT @H_MitchellPhoto: Every newspaper across America should call for @realDonaldTrump’s resignation tomorrow... and the next day... and the… 2020-09-10 04:00:05 RT @DrDenaGrayson: ‼Trump was warned about the threat of #coronavirus starting in JANUARY. Trump knew. Trump LIED. Now, nearly 200,000 A… 2020-09-10 03:42:22 @DrLukeOR @tdietterich ha ha. i should have made explicit “in the context of computational model solving hard problems with hard-won innate knowledge” :) 2020-09-10 03:01:39 @tdietterich but you won’t catch me saying right off the bat. 2020-09-10 02:37:56 @DoctorMemory @JoyceWhiteVance unfortunately his base can’t tell the difference 2020-09-10 02:37:32 since when did “right off the bat” come to mean “after perhaps $10 million training time, a staff costing maybe double that, immense carbon emissions, and 450 gigabytes of input data?” https://t.co/plQt9mqF9v 2020-09-10 02:28:26 RT @JoyceWhiteVance: It’s as if a meteorologist knew there was an F5 tornado headed straight for you but told you it was a perfect day to g… 2020-09-09 21:09:45 RT @LeonaLioness6: Here are the tapes. #TrumpKnew https://t.co/4tZCrxR9Vj 2020-09-09 20:03:11 RT @tscottphillips: This preprint seems to be a more elaborated test of what @GaryMarcus was testing for in the article above. The results… 2020-09-09 16:38:30 this man should be in jail for mass manslaughter, not running for office, much less President. https://t.co/vUSsAYwoVc 2020-09-09 13:47:18 RT @k_zars: @P_Snejersons @IvetaKazoka Tieši tā, dažiem mērķiem, ko kopā kodolīgi varētu nosaukt sophisticated bullshit generator, tas robo… 2020-09-09 05:30:24 RT @WalterIsaacson: “I’m quitting because I can no longer stomach contributing to an organization that is profiting off hate." The 1,300-wo… 2020-09-09 04:05:13 RT @mattocko: Amazing. Must read. Any engineer at FB who wants to look their kids or family in the eye 10 years from now should think simil… 2020-09-09 03:16:13 @FenCameron ps 460k people with no masks and no social distance, together for long periods of times, mingling across geography, infecting each other and then other people. what # would you expect? every bit of related, relevant science suggests this was not a bright idea. 2020-09-09 03:13:22 @FenCameron I read the abstract 2020-09-09 02:50:10 would it be too much to ask to expect that people holding public office would have the basic ability to distinguish between scientific extrapolation and science fiction? https://t.co/KMehG5h5yU 2020-09-09 02:44:35 @qhardy @govkristinoem she already has, in an unfortunate way, failing to distinguish between scientific extrapolation, and science fiction. to the untutored eye, perhaps they sound similar? 2020-09-09 02:06:27 U.S. biker rally may have led to 260,000 new COVID-19 cases. so far. https://t.co/aIgB35axwc 2020-09-09 01:19:10 RT @WorldSummitAI: The world leaders in AI are here!9 episodes, 160 countries registered, 1 ticket gets you access to the entire series… 2020-09-08 22:01:17 @RhodesNeuroLing @kearonis @guardian the technical term/technique is embedding. with a corpus that by, that aspect works well, and not just at the single word level. 2020-09-08 21:54:57 @RhodesNeuroLing @kearonis @guardian if you memorize vast tracts (and do excellent synonym substitution) you can do pretty well. imagine just doing n-grams where n is 2048... 2020-09-08 13:24:05 @azeem @guardian they did, and they should at least online show the unedited essays, or they contribute to the public misunderstanding of AI’s current state. 2020-09-08 13:21:51 RT @nnosengo: "The Guardian could have just run one of the essays in its entirety [...] we chose instead to pick the best parts of each". I… 2020-09-08 13:19:49 @janexwang @frossi_t i continue to think that the conference would benefit from more cognitive science and less orthodoxy, but there many fine workshops here 2020-09-08 13:12:55 @janexwang @frossi_t i addressed this elsewhere several times yesterday. here’s an example 2020-09-08 13:06:17 Shame on @guardian for cherry-picking, thereby misleading naive readers into thinking that #GPT3 is more coherent than it actually is. Will you be making available the raw output, that you edited? https://t.co/xhy7fYTL0o 2020-09-08 05:03:02 RT @EricTopol: Senegal crushed it and deserves recognition for their exemplary response to the pandemichttps://t.co/9VUhwhF2i3 @USATODAY @… 2020-09-08 04:31:18 truth https://t.co/R5pyIVM3KG 2020-09-08 03:53:19 RT @frossi_t: @KyleCranmer @GaryMarcus I don’t think of these people as big names, but as the best people to present work and discuss chall… 2020-09-08 02:45:10 @neuro_data i support them having more cognitive science, and more challenges to the deep learning orthodoxy, which has left the field i a local minimum 2020-09-08 02:23:58 RT @GaryMarcus: postscript: this is probably one of most misinterpreted tweets, and I wish that I had made it a longer thread. my point… 2020-09-08 02:23:38 postscript: this is probably one of most misinterpreted tweets, and I wish that I had made it a longer thread. my point was not that famous people deserve a platform, it’s that NeurIPS doesn’t seem to welcome my brand of dissent, no matter who else might be on the program. 2020-09-08 02:21:12 @ccanonne_ yes i see that my post was misinterpreted 2020-09-08 02:20:34 totally agree w @KyleCranmer that names alone don’t make a good workshop. but it is characteristic of Twitter toxicity for people to pile on assuming I did, without reading my replymy intended point was about NeurIPS’ treatment of dissent & 2020-09-08 02:11:43 @ccanonne_ no, the emphasis is on the final sentence 2020-09-08 01:44:17 @j2bryson @zacharylipton @KyleCranmer @frossi_t if what you are saying is that people can be pretty judge mental without waiting for the facts, I agree. (and maybe in hindsight i would have done them in the other order) 2020-09-06 03:28:42 @gwern @wadkar @techreview @OpenAI profiting from “potentially dangerous”AI & 2020-09-06 01:40:12 @gwern @wadkar @techreview problem lies in (a) blurring between missions (b) fact that by charter @openAI inc (the nonprofit) is supposed to be providing arms-length oversight ofn the FP, but FP seems to behave in a way at odds with NP's stated mission (c) way FP leverages misleading name borrowed from NP 2020-09-06 01:29:28 @felipedebrigard i have had the same suspicion, and suspect that it was shown to Graham on a specific date in October 2017 when he went golfing with Trump: https://t.co/0lH0swPttH 2020-09-06 01:21:15 1. What happened to Nikki Haley, since 2016?2. Odd that the same thing seems to have happened to Lindsey Graham (inter alia) around the same time. https://t.co/9DKDPmAr41 2020-09-05 23:52:28 still true. https://t.co/QMM5WHglZo 2020-09-05 22:59:32 @IlennaJ this is cool. tagging @YiotaPoirazi 2020-09-04 23:40:39 .@adriandix and Bonnie Henry you need to do more than grieve, or there will soon be many more deathsPlease make remote schooling a priority and mandate masks. https://t.co/KWqzotDNjn 2020-09-04 15:29:54 @KordingLab @neuro_data and to be clear, I love the paper and encouraged you to write it :) sorry i can’t join. 2020-09-04 02:01:33 RT @allisonbraley: A conversation with the legendary @GaryMarcus on AI promises to be both insightful and memorable. Tune in! 2020-09-03 21:49:49 @EmergTechEthics @cto_maverick @fionajmcevoy @OpenAI @Google @amazon @Facebook @Twitter @Uber @Microsoft openAI & 2020-09-03 21:29:52 @cto_maverick @fionajmcevoy @OpenAI @EmergTechEthics can a company that has so thoroughly lost its moral compass even have a definition of ethics? 2020-09-03 20:14:45 I call bullshit: HHS Secretary Azar says Nov. 1 coronavirus vaccine deadline has 'nothing to do with elections' https://t.co/JSm8DVHge8 2020-09-03 20:10:55 @AlisonGopnik nice result. that said, Marcus et al 1999 showed that 7-month olds could understand abstract relations, even without Wizards involved. https://t.co/kaRKz6SIHS 2020-09-03 18:17:56 @scottlegrand @OpenAI or maybe just enforce existing ones? 2020-09-03 17:08:45 @pbrane @greglinden @OpenAI @elonmusk well there is the dodgy tax angle, but also the fact that they are now engaging in the practice they were established to preclude, viz acting as a monopolistic actor with undue power to control a potentially dangerous technology. 2020-09-03 16:36:02 @pbrane @greglinden @OpenAI @elonmusk’s original intent was to keep DeepMind from having exclusive control over potentially dangerous AI, without commercial imperative. now OpenAI wants to profit from &stunning.