El Mahdi El Mhamdi
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Ass Prof @polytechnique . Past: Senior research scientist @Google & cofounder @mamfakinch . Book: Le Fabuleux Chantier, @EDPSciences 2019. Secular republican.
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Unlike what unconditional pessimists tell us, Humanity has never been as peaceful, healthy, tolerant, wealthy and educated as it is today.
But unlike what unconditional optimists tell us, the cost of screwing it up has never been as cheap and "democratized" as it is today.
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The resignation of Samy Bengio is a big loss for Google. Samy co-founded one of the most fundamental research groups in industry since Bell Labs, also one of the most profitable ones.
Samy's support to our small team after
@timnitGebru
and
@mmitchell_ai
firing will be remembered.
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I previously deactivated my account to focus on work, but it needs to be said that the firing of my manager
@mmitchell_ai
right after
@timnitGebru
, without consulting Samy Bengio, is beyond concerning.
To the best of my knowledge Meg was smeared on the
@BusinessInsider
article.
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No reasonable president would gather the CEOs of pharmaceutical companies and tell them "I hope you'll educate us as to what you think is most needed to protect society".
They would first ask scientists who understand the risk-benefit balance and deal with CEOs for who they are.
Artificial Intelligence is one of the most powerful tools of our time, but to seize its opportunities, we must first mitigate its risks.
Today, I dropped by a meeting with AI leaders to touch on the importance of innovating responsibly and protecting people's rights and safety.
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@NicolasFramont
@unemarocaine
pas une simple allocation: un salaire de fonctionnaire de +1500€ qui fait qu'en sortie d'études, un ENS+ENA a déjà des années de cotisation retraite à son compteur, juste pour avoir étudié.
Jadis, un mécanisme de promotion sociale, auj. un renforcement des inégalités de classe.
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My PhD "Robust Distributed Learning" was accepted and nominated for the best thesis award by a jury comprised of Francis Bach & Martin Jaggi (machine learning side), Rachid Guerraoui & Maurice Herlihy (distributed systems side), presided by Babak Falsafi.
Thanks to all who helped
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Anatomy of a random
#chloroquine
proponent:
2020, she is a tragic 32 years old nurse, heading to Paris, leaving her financé behind ---> 20.000+ likes and a significant audience gain.
2019 she is born in a camp in 1964 and hates Charles De Gaule for that.
#infodemic
#COVID19
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@ylecun
Train it on the *WHOLE* American population with:
1) an L2 loss (average error), and almost everyone will look white.
2) an L1 loss (median error), and more people might look black.
stop pretending that bias does not also come from algorithmic choices.
@ylecun
@Aaroth
@profelisacelis
ex: optimising the mean or the median on a population yields radically different outcomes.
sociologists knew that for ages.
a choice that looks as innocent as L1(median) or L2(mean) loss can be very political/biased.
@profelisacelis
,
@timnitGebru
&
@AnimaAnandkumar
have a point
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This show reminds me is how incompetent some executives are.
Back at google I said executives suffer from the "Marie Antoinette" syndrome, a term I used to describe how out of touch they are with users of google products. In fact, they are out of touch with the technology itself
One AI program spoke in a foreign language it was never trained to know. This mysterious behavior, called emergent properties, has been happening – where AI unexpectedly teaches itself a new skill.
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Je tiens à dire que je n'ai accepté cet entretien que parce que tous les médecins basés au Maroc à qui j'ai demandé de s'exprimer ont refusé par peur. Certains m'ont par ex. rapporté un cas d'inspection du ministère suite à un post FB sur l'HCQ.
Merci
@Medias24
d'ouvrir le débat.
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A student asked the difference between the AI Ethics & the AI Alignment communities after noting that I work on both topics.
Not wanting to embark on counter-productively long debates, I replied that so far, only one of these communities gets fired when correctly doing its job.
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@raoult_didier
@MicrobiomDigest
Solidarity with
@MicrobiomDigest
who never insulted you on a personal level. Not to mention that her track record of rigour should make you aspire to imitate her, not diminish her.
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كاين اللي صدّعنا بتصويرة الحموشي و المنصوري و بوريطة و گال لك ما تخلطش الكرة بالسياسية.
و كاين ياسين بونو اللي باين ولد الناس من نهار گال هادي (اللي كلشي فالمغرب عارف المعنى ديالها) :
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In the border of Medyka. Waiting for my sister who miraculously escaped Kharkiv. Not all refugees are treated equally. Esp international students. There are serious accounts of deaths. I saw may cases of delirium.
Some countries like India sent buses.
Morocco sent Chouf TV.
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@pmddomingos
@timnitGebru
@DrR0bot
@AnimaAnandkumar
@NeurIPSConf
@GoogleAI
Sir, I've read your book, and I'm sure you know how to apply Bayes theorem.
Condition your probability of truth by the fact that that "side" was written by a team a mere dozen junior researchers, risking careers on it, or being sued by one of the richest companies ever.
Thank you
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I grew up in an "inshallah" culture and had to guess at an early age what shade of grey was my father's inshallah in each case, which probably gave me a head-start to understand epistemic probabilities and become a Bayesian, the Laplace hardliner branch.
How would you explain probability to a five year old?
Bonus points if you can do it without referring to coins or dice.
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On the large AI models, this preprint synthesises what we know so far
In short: it is mathematically impossible to have AIs combining the following properties:
1) High number of parameters
2) Robustness to poisoning (e.g. fake data)
3) Privacy-preserving
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I have been avoiding Zoom for teaching, professional and personal meetings as much as I could since the start of the pandemic, using and recommending Jitsi instead.
The new updated terms of Zoom just give you new reasons if you were mostly accepting Zoom so far.
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Je ne parles pas aux IA, ça les instruit.
Ce fut ma réponse à un collègue qui me demande si j'ai essayé
#ChatGPT
.
Très sérieusement, les grands modèles de language nous emmènent vers un cataclysme de cybersécurité et de violation de vie privé pour lequel personne n'est préparé.
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Several countries offered assistance to Morocco for the earthquake may they be thanked.
Aid is not allowed in unless local authorities formally allow it. King was in France, as usual, everyone waiting…
Every minute of delay in such situation means hundreds of lives not saved.
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100% des guéris du
#COVID19
dans le Monde ont pris de l'oxyde de dihydrogène.
(je ne suis pas actionnaire d'une entreprise qui vend de l'oxyde de dihydrogène mais c'est le moment de se placer).
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The minimizer of squared distances (mean) accounts for minority data points (e.g. vaccine experts in a social network), but is vulnerable to radicalized voices.
The minimiser of distances (median) discards both.
Algorithmic choices are social choices. Take it from a maths prof.
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My resolution for 2021 is to treat "both sides" relativism as more dangerous than "the other side" for issues where 50-50 relativism is artificially amplified. It fuels a real 50-50 polarisation in the real world.
Beyond misinformation, we have a great epistemic crisis to solve.
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"if a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent."
This quote from Alan Turing was in the cover of my PhD () right after a parent's quote for nurturing a child's curiosity
Turing's nuance contrasts with most of techno-absolutism…
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The most meta illustration of language models' 🦜 lack of robustness together with embedded biases:
Timnit Gebru ---> Petit middle bros.
Margaret Mitchell ---> Margaret Mitchell
This is a teachable moment on so many levels.
From my book's co-author
@le_science4all
last video.
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Our work "AKSEL: Fast Byzantine SGD" has just earned the best student paper award at upcoming Opodis
Maybe the 1st time a PhD student based in Morocco (Amine Boussetta) leads a work winning an award at that conference. Happy to have mentored Amine on this.
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J'ai une blague sur les plus de 2000 publications académiques de
@raoult_didier
, mais je n'ai pas suffisamment de thésards et de postdocs pour la raconter à ma place.
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La démarche scientifique a été souillée durant ce
#COVID19
. Les arguments de l'éthique et de l'urgence ont été inversés par certains médecins.
J'explique ici en quoi il est utile d'être pour la méthode, surtout en temps de crise
(version plus elaborée ici )
TRIBUNE | « Pour se prémunir des défauts de l’intuition, les scientifiques disposent d’une robuste alternative, qui permet de faire le tri entre les idées brillantes, et celles ne valant guère plus que des discussions de bistrot : la méthode scientifique »
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On vit dans une époque où
@Youtube
réagit plus vite que l'
@ordre_medecins
pour protéger la santé des citoyens d'une mésinformation qui a aggravé la pandémie.
Ceci dit, youtube aurait pu réagir de bien des meilleurs manière qu'une suppression qui grossira les rangs de complotistes
Mon bulletin scientifique de mardi a été censuré par Youtube, décision confirmée après appel. La vidéo a été réuploadée par France Soir, vous pouvez la voir à ce lien :
Nous allons rapidement la télécharger sur de nouvelles plateformes d'hébergement.
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@dylnbkr
@timnitGebru
No previous manager/supervisor/mentor/advisor has ever succeeded in making me feel as confortable and confident for what's next as Timnit did in a few calls.
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Google has lost one of its most brilliant scientists and one of its most professional managers and mentors.
Instead of recognising the disaster, our CEO's email fuels the epistemic laziness that depicts
@timnitGebru
as angry.
Few would survive what Timnit has on her shoulders.
Timnit Gebru: Google's 'dehumanizing' memo paints me as an angry Black woman by
@kharijohnson
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@mmitchell_ai
@timnitGebru
I was skeptical of corporate research and wouldn't have joined if it was not for
@timnitGebru
convincing me of positive steering from within. As I learned later, Timnit wouldn't have been co-lead it was not for you making it possible.
May this testimony help reverse the erasure.
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Tomorrow several political prisoners in Morocco decided on a joint hunger strike. Among them my friend
@OmarRADI
, jailed without trial. Others were unfairly tried and given 20 years sentences.
Don't buy on PR, Morocco lacks the rule of law and is not a reliable business partner.
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@BFMTV
@ibnkafka
@Samirasitail1
Un contexte échappe à beaucoup ici : en 2011, quand des marocains réclamaient par milliers un état à la hauteur du citoyen de 2011, cette dame balançait les protestataires aux barbouzes de la DGED (auj. accusés dans le
#MoroccoGate
, pour corruption de parlementaires en Europe).
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Bill Gates a eu son Bac et a publié un résultat de recherche avec Christos Papadimitriou à Harvard.
Google est basée sur des publications académiques des doctorats (inachevées) de Larry Page et Sergei Brin.
Le mythe du "gars dans son garrage" est nuisible pour l'innovation.
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Things that do not and will not exist:
- a perpetual motion machine.
- a computer solving the halting problem.
- an AI with a trillion parameters, trained on user data, that preserves privacy and is robust to misinformation and data manipulation.
Have a good start of the week.
On the large AI models, this preprint synthesises what we know so far
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1) High number of parameters
2) Robustness to poisoning (e.g. fake data)
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Unsurprisingly, after the pre-mature release of
#ChatGPT
, and the race to the bottom in terms of safety caused by Microsoft, Google or Facebook, GPT-4 is out.
It claims to "solve" a physics
@polytechnique
entry exam. This will make it harder to calm down the hype in France…
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نورالدين أمرابط مقاتل بواحد النّفس كاتجيب الاحترام. شكرا لهولاندا اللّي درّباتو و وجّداتو، و شكرا لواليديه اللّي هاجرو و خدمو فالحلال و كبّروه.
أما كون تزاد فالمغرب كوراه بحال ثمن مية من ولاد عمّو فالرّيف كا يتحاكم فعوكاشا بتهمة "الانفصال" حيث خرج يطالب بسبيطار يداوي فيه مّو.
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Basic error in rational thinking is forgetting confounders*. Happens even with Nobel prizes and Turing awards.
* One in many confounders: in authoritarian regimes like my home country, there is no visible polarization because posting on Facebook against the King leads to jail.
Indeed
@RichardDawkins
, propaganda outlets, not social media, are the source of harmful disinformation.
For the US & UK, the common cause is Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
Many other countries use social media just as much but have not reached similar levels of polarization.
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In 2019 alone, Facebook removed 6 billion suspicious profiles. Twice the total number of legitimate profiles on FB in 15 years of existence.
If you are harassed by a gang of freshly minted profiles and think they are paid trolls, you are not paranoid, you are just rational.
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For the past years, like several other targets, I received spywares, death and torture threats, threats of dissolving my body in acid… These threats usually prepare the target for jail on fabricated charges.
Here is how those who asked can help
(text in )
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A message I've been repeating since 2015 is that the most consequential voting systems we have today on earth are social media algorithms.
Every like, follow, comment or watchtime is a vote, shaping the global informational diet. Dictators understood that better than citizens
🧵
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@timnitGebru
@schrep
@_KarenHao
I'm a very optimistic and solution-oriented person, but on handling authoritarian regimes misuse of social networks, I have growing evidence that platforms are not ready to deal with that, mostly because of the "premature-solutionism" mindset which rushes/discards good diagnosis.
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الملكية المغربية شريكة فالجريمة، أي حاجة ما كاتبداش بهاد الحقيقة ما هي إلا ضياع للوقت و الطاقة و القدرة الصغيرة اللي عندنا كمغاربة فالموضوع.
اللي سكت على التطبيع مع الإمارات و مع تگلاس المغاربة على القرعة، على تعذيب الزفزافي و الراضي و المئات، بلا ما يجي يدوي على حاجة آخرة دابا.
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@timnitGebru
Equally symbolic is that the rare/only AI YouTuber who understood what's at stake now for society, beyond the narrow US-centered point of view, is a non-native-English speaking YouTuber, who had to switch language of his channel and do it again in English:
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Congratulations to
@jacindaardern
& the 49 listed by
@FortuneMagazine
with
@timnitGebru
on this list of the world's greatest leaders.
Timnit's scientific breath depth and morale compass are undervalued and the paragraph is not enough to capture what she is
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Glad to finally share that in 2020 I was lucky enough to be offered a position at
@Polytechnique
.
As we (try) automate and externalise what we cherish the most, our ability to think, it's important to keep in mind that it's not just a technology question:
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I still look forward to work and learn from
@JeffDean
.
But in the presence of power imbalance, it is important to say that, more than anything,
#IStandWithTimnit
, the algorithms we work on are a matter of public interest, not personal affinities.
Relativism amplifies confusion.
I support both
@timnitGebru
and
@JeffDean
. I have witnessed them both achieving more positive change in the last 4 years that in 20 years of academic life. Yet, we have so much more to learn, fix and improve. I see the justified anger, but let us also reflect and show compassion
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Un pays incapable de respecter la chaîne du froid pour un yaourt à 4° ne doit pas baisser la garde et s'exciter des annonces prématurées du vaccin Pfizer, produit en faibles quantités et nécessitant un stockage à -80°.
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If you are in the field of data science, statistics, mathematics or especially computer science and still repeat the infamous "We Are Not Arbiters of Truth" slogan in 2021, you need a course on the history (both antique and modern) of your field.
Good news: our book covers that
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@TheOfficialACM
@JeffDean
Perfectly fine. Just remove the "code of conduct" and the hypocrite political correctness ACM doesn't believe in. Such hypocrite statements do more harm than being honest about not caring. As a potential target I prefer honest folks like Ullman, they don't make me lower my guards
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Those who doubt that AI could control humans never witnessed how smart scientists and entrepreneurs are controlled by a dumb sequential algorithm called law and a dumber optimiser called PR department, trying to minimise reputational damage but actually maximising it.
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I keep repeating this but talking about justice in computing is not "activism", it's just an overdue back to the original intent:
Algorithms were named after a polymath, who invented *Algebra*, to help other lawyers achieve transparent reproducible *justice* (through algorithms).
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ما عندي مشكل مع مغربي ساكت على الملك و الدولة البوليسية. بالعكس، أي واحد عندو مثلا دراري صغار خاصو ياخذ احتياطاتو.
عندي مشكل مع اللي عندو وضعية مزيانة، خصوصا اللي كايتسمّاو "النخبة"، و عوض ما يحشم على عرضو و غير يسكت، كايبيّض فالنظام و يسوق ليه و يساهم فالعزل ديال اللي كايدويو.
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حتى حاجة ما كاتعوّض الوالدين الحقيقين و لكن كان هذا أقرب ما قرّبت لواليديا فهاد الربع سنين.
Nothing replaces seeing your parents, but this was the closest I've ever been to that: meeting
@Free_Omar_Radi
's parents as they represented him for the
@RSF_inter
award for independence.
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Information is the backbone of healthy society. In Morocco the situation is distopic, quality media is shut down, replaced with state-controlled Breitbarts. We live in the pre-truth era.
Today jailed journalists Souleiman Raissouni & Omar Radi went on hopeless open hunger strikes
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Except a few who spoke up, the AI community has failed in stopping the irresponsible premature commercialisation of GPT3.
It's an overdue tweet, I was busy with faculty job negotiations and a side work on online harassment…
But this matters a lot as it set a dangerous precedent.
I'm shocked how hard it is to generate text about Muslims from GPT-3 that has nothing to do with violence... or being killed...
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As a citizen of the so-called global south:
1) I applaud this decision, and do not fall to Russian propaganda (i.e. "why Putin and not Bush")
2) I will not blindly trust the ICC and western democracies, as long as George W. Bush and Tony Blair roam freely despite crimes in Iraq
BREAKING: The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes because of alleged involvement in abductions of Ukrainian children.
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@NAkufoAddo
@adjiboussodieng
As a Moroccan user, I call on
@twitter
to have tweets related to my home country processed by moderators located or reporting to the Ghana office rather than to the very problematic office in the United Arab Emirates.
Context:
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Months ago, I was humbled that
@JeffDean
himself reached out suggesting I join Google Brain. Over past 4 years, at least 10 people reached out from tech companies. I was often skeptical.
Today
#IStandWithTimnit
, a friend and mentor who convinced me of positive change from within.
We stand with
@timnitGebru
. We call on Google Research to strengthen its commitment to research integrity and to unequivocally commit to supporting research that honors the commitments made in Google’s AI Principles. Sign the letter:
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Thanks to the Revue Médecine et Philosophie for publishing our paper
"Recommendation Algorithms, a Neglected Opportunity for Public Health".
Summarising +5 years of discussions on the infodemic, how algorithms worsen it, and how they can actually help.
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It should repeated: There *are* different border schemes, one for Ukrainians/Europeans, one for others. Just like in any other EU border.
But this time segregation is not a matter of boarding airplane faster: it's a matter of dying walking ~40 kilometres at -4°C or riding a bus
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@ylecun
@Aaroth
@profelisacelis
ex: optimising the mean or the median on a population yields radically different outcomes.
sociologists knew that for ages.
a choice that looks as innocent as L1(median) or L2(mean) loss can be very political/biased.
@profelisacelis
,
@timnitGebru
&
@AnimaAnandkumar
have a point
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Thanks everyone. Little sister arrived. She wouldn't do without brave ukrainian train drivers and her group of 4 students forced to separate. We stay arround until all of them make it and won't let them walk/wait more, additional nights in this cold are a matter of life and death
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One of the most rigorous studies on
#Hydroxychloroquine
(HCQ) so far.
One group on HCQ+Standard Of Care, one only on SOC: No difference in efficacy, 3 times more adverse events in HCQ group (30% vs 8%).
I'm afraid facts don't matter in this issue anymore.
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I don't think Yann LeCun did it himself, but we have now reasons to believe Facebook removed a comment from Yoshua Bengio (and all subsequent replies to it) in a calm discussion on the importance of AI alignement for social media algorithms.
more details:
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1) Quel vaccin ?
2) Quel comité scientifique ? le même de la prescription azithromycin / HCQ ?
3) Quelles données appuient cette décision "massive" à haut risque ?
Quand on critique la gouvernance sans transparence, c'est pour la vie des gens, pas pour le plaisir intellectuel.
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Républicain, j'ai parcouru des milliers de kilomètres pour venir voir Paris, la cité des rois décapités, des républiques sans cesse renouvelées, et d'un peuple donnant parfois l'exemple au monde (concours, congés payés, déclaration des droits du citoyen…).
Pas déçu.
Imaginez le touriste qui arrive à Paris. Il a parcouru 9000 km pour voir la cité de l’amour romantique.
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Dire "c'est la courbe typique des épidémies" sans préciser
"typique des épidémies qui n'ont *pas* eu besoin de confinement à large échelle comme le
#COVID19
" induit gravement l'audience en erreur.
Écouter cet avis pour prendre des mesures de politique publique est mortel.
Coronavirus: le Pr Didier Raoult ne croit pas à une deuxième vague de l'épidémie
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عافاك سليمان الريسوني، يلا ما وگّف داك الاضراب، كلشي باغيك تبقى حيّ و حتى واحد ما باغيك شهيد باش تفضح نظام مُجرم عديم الكفاءة حتى واحد ما باقي محتاجك تفضحو بهاد الطريقة، و حتى واحد ما غالط فالطبيعة ديالو ماشي غير فالكسل الفكري ديال مّاليه، من المقدم حتى للمعلم.
#FreeKoulchi
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We live in an era of cognitive/digital apartheid and feudalism. Especially humans outside US-Canada-Europe.
These are cold observations, not a passionate feeling, from someone living in the lucky side, in Switzerland, English-content consumer with a scientific background, etc.
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I you want to donate for the
#MoroccoEathquake
, the fundraising in quoted-tweet is organised by recommendable people, in touch with their families in affected villages.
Consider also classic orgs. such as Red Cross/Cressent, or
@FoodbankMaroc
with strong track-record in Morocco.
Avec des proches, nous lançons une cagnotte pour aider nos familles des villages de Tighanimine, Amendar, Tildi, durement touchés par le séisme au
#Maroc
. Souffrant déjà d'enclavement et de pauvreté, cet évènement est une catastrophe.
Merci de relayer.
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New testimony from Facebook employee Sophie Zhang: "Most of the world outside the West was effectively the Wild West with myself as the part-time dictator".
()
As a reminder, FB is that platform where you get cancelled if you point out very moderate issues
I don't think Yann LeCun did it himself, but we have now reasons to believe Facebook removed a comment from Yoshua Bengio (and all subsequent replies to it) in a calm discussion on the importance of AI alignement for social media algorithms.
more details:
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This is a masterpiece of pedagogy on the subtleties of exponential growth, why one day can change everything and why no one should be overconfident.
An ideal post
#Covid19
world is one where science-savvy, yet elected, leaders like Dr. Merkel are the norm, not the exception.
This is how Angela Merkel explained the effect of a higher
#covid19
infection rate on the country's health system.
This part of today's press conf was great, so I just added English subtitels for all non-German speakers.
#flattenthecurve
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The past ~10 years have caused so much mental cost and loss of productivity, including feeling increasingly unsafe to visit home and even abroad, shared by many Moroccan diaspora.
But all of that is nothing compared to what those in jail are paying.
Hopefully this is not useless
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الناس الجامعيين، يلا صدماتكم الفيديو ديال مناقشة دكتورا كايعربط فيها أستاذ و يغوّت "عاش الملك" على الطالب و ما صدماتكمش التصويرة ديال الملك فكلّ قاعة فين قريتو من الابتدائي حتى للباك. عاودو راجعو الفهم ديالكم للمنهاج العلمي و الفكر النقدي و أهمية التخلّص من القداسة فتاريخ العلوم.
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Finished at 33, people in my PhD program in computer science finish at ~26/28, I started at 29, after working on different things and paying some debts.
Not a bad outcome despite admission jury being very sceptical about my case (coming from physics to CS with no background)
How old were you when you finished your PhD program??
Serious question, looking for responses
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The final draft of our book on AI safety titled
#LeFabuleuxChantier
(
#TheFabulousEndeavor
), written by
@le_science4all
and myself was sent today to the editor
@EDPSciences
.
Release: December 2019 for French, hopefully mid-2020 for English and Chinese versions.
Preview:
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I don't care about birthdays, I prefer when I realise days later that mine happened without me noticing. But today,
@OmarRADI
is spending his fourth birthday in jail.
We will not forgive those who put him there, nor their allies in the so-called democratic world.
@Free_Omar_Radi
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”if I was Syrian, I would stay and fight for my country”
(video of people massively leaving Paris, spreading
#COVID19
to other regions in France in the meantime)
Under panic, most would do the same, thus the quote above. Next time you see a refugee fleeing, be compassionate.
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@timnitGebru
a stat I always wanted to know is how many middle/working class students were professionally severally damaged by pursuing dropout myths, then realising (too late) it only works on those having big parachutes (thus not middle class kids, and absolutely not on working class ones).
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If you were not impressed (you should) by the fast recovery from a
#googledown
and never wondered what scientific field enables that, you should learn about distributed computing.
Bonus: it's also a niche where crazy people can study mathematical biology or mathematical sociology
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If I had infinite time, I would write another book titled
"پارطاجيو آ الإخوان و كثّرو من القلوبة"
aka
"Share this, brothers, put of a lot of cute hearths in the comments, my account is under attack: how big tech platforms failed at detecting mass-reporting from regime thugs"
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باغين يصيفطونا للعسكر نحضيو ليهم الگرگارات باش الباطوات ديالهم يصيّدو الحوث على خاطرهم و حنا ناكلو نص بواطة د السردين ف تيشلة بعدما شفرو لينا الراڤيطايمو و باعوه فموريتانيا و صيفطو ولادهم يتبرّعو بالدّوڤيز ديال التهريب.
هادشي اللي عاودو ليا العساكرية الصغار من عائلتي.
#مامگاجيش
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العصابة اللي ما كاتستهلكش المنتوج "الوطني"، اللي ما كاتقرّيش ولادها فالمدرسة "الوطنية"، اللي كاتتداوا فالڤال دوگراس و تدوي بالدّارجة الوطنية غير مع الخدّامة و العسّاس.
كاتعاير "المداويخ" باش ينوضو يستهلكو ليها المنتوج "الوطني" ديالها.
ينعل بو الواطان يلا كان معاها.
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L'état Français qui se félicite des prix Nobels obtenus par des français ayant fait carrière à l'étranger, ça me rappelle des médias du régime marocain qui ont (discrètement) essayé de communiquer sur le prix Nobel de Serge Haroche alors qu'il doit (quasiment) tout à la France.
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Dr Miguna, you got your Doctorate in 1993, I gave you a tolerance of 3 years delay and searched your record, there is nothing such as the 9 journal papers you're calling for:
To you and all the boomers, stop counterproductive pressure on young researchers.
@kipmurkomen
A doctoral student should read and understand more than 300 academic books and 500 journal articles in your area of study, publish 3 peer-reviewed journal articles each year for 3 years, conduct research and complete a dissertation. Set your goals higher than that and good luck.
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@BzkYssf
@pmddomingos
@timnitGebru
@DrR0bot
@AnimaAnandkumar
@NeurIPSConf
@GoogleAI
I'm glad Pedro Domingos moved from events misinformation to mathematical misinformation, because the latter is easier to handle.
One strength of Bayesian inference is to enable useful information processing and decision making in the presence of inevitable partial information
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كاين واحد القصة على رجل وگّفو الشيطان فشكل مرا زوينة، گالت ليه يا إما تزني معايا، يا إما تشرب هاد القرعة ديال الشراب، يا إما تقتل هاد الدّري الصغير.
الرجل گال حسن نشرب و ما نزني ما نقتل درّي صغير.
شرب، هو يسكر، و زنى و قتل الدّرّي الصغير.
هادا حال المغرب فاش طبّع مع الإمارات
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@geoffreyhinton
Google acted "very responsibly", if you consider responsible:
-using Breitbart to train AI models.
-letting content obtained from torture flourish on YouTube (in turn feeding recommendation algorithms)
-spreading scientific disinformation about safety and privacy
-firing experts
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You can build a decentralised system like $BTC, it's as vulnerable as a centralised one if social information is centred on few nodes.
As of today, cash still has more decentralised robust features than crypto: slow multistakeholder legislation, that no mood-swing tweet can flip.
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@Samirasitail1
@BFMTV
@ibnkafka
Madame, je n'ai rien contre vous à titre personnel. Mais je connais le régime que vous servez, et qui n'hésite pas à recourir à des méthodes de mafieux contre nous, et maintenant, stade beaucoup plus lâche, contre nos familles, pour avoir simplement défendu des journalistes
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@BzkYssf
@pmddomingos
@timnitGebru
@DrR0bot
@AnimaAnandkumar
@NeurIPSConf
@GoogleAI
On a personal level, that's the kind of complex, interdisciplinary and patience-requiring work, on which I wanted to use the little math I know for hard questions of fairness Vs robustness dilemmas. That's why I joined
@timnitGebru
and what is now questioned by her departure.
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.
@signalapp
seems to be struggling with the influx of new users after
@elonmusk
's tweet and WhatsApp's news.
Please consider donating if you can, some of the people who were there before this influx use it as a life-saving messaging service with contacts in authoritarian places.
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[18è siècle]
D'un côté des enfants qui meurent de froid,le chauffage n'étant ni efficace ni démocratisé, de l'autre des délires de Thermodynamique mobilisant Carnot, Clausius et nos plus brillantes ressources intellectuelles au lieu d'en faire des médecins
D'un côté des enfants qui meurent parce qu'ils n'ont pas accès aux infrastructures de base, de l'autre les délires de l'intelligence artificielle financés à coup de milliards. Bienvenue dans ce monde (de merde).
#journeemondialedelenfance
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+5 years ago, we were repeating "It's not the killer robot, but any mean of information processing, influencing peoples' minds".
Honoured to know that last week, students of 2017 Nobel prize Jacques Dubochet had our book as a reading material for the "Biology and Society" course
“We don’t need to invoke far-fetched, sophisticated AI to talk about the urgency of AI safety."
In a new book,
@ICepfl
scientists draft a roadmap for beneficial AI.
Many thanks to Celia Luterbacher for this concise interview.
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