Pelonomi Moiloa
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CEO and Co-founder @LelapaAi | Data Scientist | PsA spoonie | musico: aka hippy who wears black and plays with computers.
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Today the Gautrain bus driver asked me if someone was waiting for me. I told him no, so he dropped me off at the end of my street, instead of the bus stop, waited until I had walked up the street and then hooted to let me know he was leaving...I guess he’s been watching the news.
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This case brings to light how perpetrators of apartheid were not held accountable and more specifically prevented from being held accountable by high ups in the new government post ‘94. They pranced freely and successfully through the lives they terrorized
Read it again: The apartheid cop whose interrogation methods led to the alleged suicide of Neil Aggett, has reinvented himself as a business counterintelligence consultant.
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Lol, just got out of a meeting. “You need to speak to the technical person developing this”. To which I had to respond, “I am the technical person developing and deploying this”.
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Counting blessings: teachers, mentors, privileges, opportunities, resources and life experiences.
And looking to put my foot in the door.
I have 90 girls interested in learning about programming but I need help.
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It begins 🌱
@vukosi
@BenjaminRosman
@alienelf
George, Pravesh,
@bonadossou
so looking forward to changing the world with you
Hello world 🌍♥️
"Lelapa is building a research lab to serve African businesses & nonprofits, with the hope that locally grown algorithms can better serve communities."
Thanks
@kharijohnson
@WIRED
for telling our story 🤩
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Contributions like this one resulted in the first Deep Learning Indaba in JHB, 2017. That was where where the founders of first met. Little did we know what mischief we would be up to 5 years later
@vukosi
@alienelf
@BenjaminRosman
Pravesh, George
🪘🪘🪘We’re delighted to thank our sponsor partnerships for the Deep Learning Indaba 2023. Sponsorship of the Indaba is invaluable, providing us the opportunity to host the event, waive fees for all students and support the travel and accommodation of hundreds of attendees.
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hectic…
We're announcing our first round of speakers for
#TEDAI2023
with pioneers and trailblazers as they share their vision and work on the benefits and challenges of
#AI
in our society.
Don't miss your spot!
#TEDAI
#AI
#DareToKnow
#DareToAsk
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I spend a fair amount of time keeping up to date with AI horror stories. Let’s explore how our failure in defining humanity is getting in the way of building great machines. And what that potentially means for us in the African context. Join us on the 10th.
Join
@Finchatbot
and
@IBM
for an all-important talk on
#AIEthics
with our guest speaker
@tamati_biskit
📎 All info and registration details are here:
#Finchatbot
#IBM
#Meetup
#AI
#chatbots
#fintech
#Insurtech
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Started in my living room now we here (:
Hi everyone! If you’re around the JHB area. There will be an Intro to Machine Learning workshop on 16 November 2019. For more info, visit the link:
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Heroes don’t wear capes, they wear cute floral skirts
@alienelf
#4IR
#QuantumComputing
#blockchain
#AI
#FreeTheSABCLanguageData
#nlp
#machinelearning
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Every time people mention AGI or the singularity, I think about putting it into production and I chuckle to myself.
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Send us your AI deployment war stories and then come play war story Bingo with us at the Building Bridges Workshop
@DeepIndaba
, September 9th
@alienelf
@compArch1
@mereldawoohoo
@AniciaP
@AnnaShipepe
@ShaimaaLazem
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This incredible woman ♥️
Our WCW of the week is; Jade Abbot
Abbot is a renowned software developer who isn't only co-directing a growing tech firm but has been doing so for years. The icing on the cake? She's just clocked 30 years earlier this month.
She Develops software and analyses data.
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Hey fam,
You know what they say "Educate a woman and you educate a village"...
I am looking for scholarship opportunities for a Grade 12 superstar looking to study Computer Science, Audiology or LLB next year. Please send through recommendations. tysm
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AI4D Scholarships Enhancing Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in Sub-Saharan Africa
$1.7m dollars of funding for PhD scholarships up for grabs
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So impressed with this team 🌱 Check out what everyone is up to at
@DeepIndaba
this coming week.
It's 2 days until the
@DeepIndaba
🤩
We would not exist if it weren't for this event. 💕
Our founders met at the first Indaba in 2017
We're proud we can give back by being a sponsor to (and helping organise)
#Indaba2023
#Y
ɛbɛtumi
A 🧵 on where to connect:
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Don’t normally enjoy talking about myself, so this was weird but lovely
NEW PODCAST 🚨
This weeks guest is
@tamati_biskit
. Pelonomi has 3 engineering degrees including a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Tohoku University in Japan. She is currently working as a Data Scientist. Tune as she takes us through her journey in the tech world
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#AmiraAbbas
queening as she holds her own schooling folks on
#quantumcomputing
at
#ThinkJHB
💅🏾 ...also the only millennial to represent on stage.
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It was an absolute pleasure to share and learn
A big thanks for the incredible talk by
@tamati_biskit
. So great to see the audience really engaging on the topic of
#AIEthics
. Thank you
@IBM
for hosting us and our members for supporting us.
Join the conversation:
#Finchatbot
#chatbots
#Meetups
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Tomorrow, a full women line up...Lining up to talk Machine Learning.
@women_in_ai
@DataWomenSA
@WomenThinkCode
@unwomenSA
@WomeninTechZA
@OWSD_SA
@UN_Women
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Lovely panel. Learned a lot. ✊🏾
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Putting together final details. We have been working hard and are looking forward to bearing fruit next weekend 🍉 🍑🍊🍐🍎🥭🥥 ♥️ go team!
We’re excited to have our first Introduction to
#ML
workshop for women of all professional levels and backgrounds. Taking place in 8 days 💃🏽 Looking forward you hearing from our speakers & seeing you all
@RLadiesJozi
@MamasCoding
@social_coding
@WiMLDS_JHB
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Great work by
@alienelf
and
@bonadossou
and
@RoowyM
with
@LelapaAI
Now is the time to create positive change with technology made for us
We compared Africa-centric Models to OpenAI’s GPT3.5 for isiZulu and here were our results 🤯 🌍
The translations are hilarious, but in truth quite terrifying 😂 😱
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There are soooo many people out there dedicated to changing the world for the better. The more of them I meet, the happier and more hopeful I get. Even when I think I cannot possibly be happier and more hopeful.
Every
#MozFest
I feel encouraged listening to the vision that
@mozilla
is putting into the world, and seeing how that vision is backed with action and budget 💜. Makes me hopeful in a sometimes overwhelming tech world
@jbobalotta
@tamati_biskit
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Those looting are still people who can be kind and who want the best for their families, many of which are people in need
Our beautiful country is going through an awful time now. It is worth remembering that most South Africans are better than those shown in the news and social media . Most are kind, caring people who want the best for their families. Don't lose hope & try to help others in need.
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@Thulani_Azanian
@Daddy_Mack
I appreciate your concern. I think though, that more people and men in particular should be encouraged to take on the responsibility of the consequences of widespread GBV and that fear mongering discourages such.
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Let’s not forget that apartheid did not end because it was wrong, it ended because it was no longer economically viable. And this case was one which revealed workings of the security police, assisting in the loss of confidence in Apartheid government by international community.
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Contribute if you have the means.
@alienelf
and
@LauraMartinus
need help. Thanks to
@data_explore
for the meetup
#masakhane
#FreeTheSABCLanguageData
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Join us! Looking at “Good Ai” within the field of neuroscience (like brain computer interfaces and other neurotechnologies)
Come chat about neuroprivacy and autonomy, the right to mental integrity and stuff. Come tell me what you think.
Come on, come all !
@tamati_biskit
is set to deliver an excellent talk, followed by a great discussion!
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#aboutlastnight
Observe images of Amira blessing us with her brilliance making quantum computing sound so easy. Also have you ever thought about going into Quantum Machine Learning? Well go then.
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I am offended by this term “medical apartheid”. What a fundamental misunderstanding of what Apartheid was and what it meant for the people of South Africa.
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#HackUrCulture
I hope you are jumping on this.
We have this table in our most recent paper. It shows the number of wikipedia articles in that language, and their respective speaker population sizes. 🗣️
Pained by the constrast between Afrikaans and isiZulu. 😫
Welcome to post-apartheid rainbow nation South Africa. 😭🇿🇦 /1
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@alienelf
Actually I was thinking about this the other day. That if only my toothbrush could scan my teeth for plaque while I was brushing and tell me where I need to brush more in real time. I don’t think this is what this is though.
...4IR! Blockchain! Quantum Computing!
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Except for
@vukosi
and
@davlanade
and
@black_in_ai
workshops, so many of the the things I want to attend at
@NeurIPSConf
( 2 of the
@WiMLworkshop
, interdisciplinary social, women in AI social, Algorithms of oppression, Ethics Panel, Indigenous in AI) are when I’m sleeping 😢
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This inquest is not just about finding peace for the Agget family and those who cared for Neil but also highlights the failure of the TRC to deliver truth and reconciliation. Young people of colour have inherited anger and bitterness where peace was promised.
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OMG same 🙏🏾 🙇🏽♀️
Lord grant me the confidence of an AI researcher pronouncing his own theories of consciousness without reading any of the decades of relevant philosophical debate
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Separate your pet bottles. Remove the labels, remove the lids. And put them out on trash day, separate to your grossness. Less digging, less trash escaping because of the digging, give a little respect for a job well done. Give a gift of a little bit of dignity.
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But “great job guys” would be perfectly acceptable whether you were all kick-ass women or not right? I have been trying to permanently replace the word “guys” in my vocabulary with the word “ladies”. It hasn’t worked out very well.
@wethinkcode
COO sent an email "great job ladies". Heart racing, I did a rapid gender audit. Happy to report it was all clear. Both our campuses are headed up & administered by a team of kick-ass black women. I smiled all the way from my liver! Its taken 19yrs to experience this.
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@Mphahleletk
@sindivanzyl
I will pass the message on to him for everyone if I meet him again. I will not post a picture though, Don’t want to get him into any trouble.
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Before you spread conspiracies about the timing of B.1.1.529 just do a double check it’s not your ego trying to convince you that you are part of a small exclusive club that is “smarter than EVERYONE else”…to help you feel importanter. People will die because of your ego.
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Looking for a P2P, emersive learning based curriculum/program that:
1. Is relevant to South Africans and the issues we face
2. Is not just about coding but also algorithmic thinking, bias and ethics issues regarding automation
3. Aimed at high school level
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Machine learning courses really need to stop using gender as a binary classification example. It’s not a classification example. Nor is it a binary classification example
#eyeroll
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The desperation for the end of apartheid compromised terms of negotiation, including lack of accountability from all those who benefited from the oppressive regime and supported it/didn’t do anything about it.
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You can watch me and let us know what you think. Let’s talk. Let’s build.
We have just uploaded a whole bunch of new content to our
@YouTube
channel 🤓 I hope everyone is checking out: as the talks for the
#IndabaXSouthAfrica
2019 become available 📽
@DeepIndaba
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Hello hello, I am looking for funding/grants to apply to for technical education (electrical components etc for a coding academy at a girls high school). We don’t need much. Please send assistance. Thanks.
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Hack Ur Culture: a hackathon for open cultural data, all of the best collaborating to make information about cultural heritage accessible as trust worthy. Sign up!
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!!! Been saying.
A widespread misconception about ML is that models are neutral/objective & just reflect the data fed into them.
Modeling choices encode strong assumptions about the data, and further, the way you use your model in your application reflects your own understanding of the problem.
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😍 when favorite humanness is requited
"Is unintended malicious of bias that bad?"
Yes. Yes it is. With a very relevant local example.
With my new favourite human
@tamati_biskit
#AIEthics
@DeepIndaba
@DeepIndabaX_ZA
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A lot of effort and well done for that.
But I am very much looking forward to the day when language models do not require the type of resources inaccessible to most and when there is a competition for the smallest number of weights. 10 billion? There must be other ways.
We've released the weights (1.3B and 2.7B) of our replication of GPT-3 🥳
Using the updated Colab notebook in the repo you should be able to finetune the models on your own data as well as run inference.
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Jeppe Code Kamoso Hackathon
Today was the last Lesson of Jeppe Code Kamoso 2021. We are looking for financial support and facilitators for next year. Spread the word (:
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Whaaaaaaaaaat. As exciting as this is (and up my ally as far as my visceral attraction to AI+Neurology)
HUMANS NEED TO GET AI POLICY ON LOCK BEFORE WE OPEN THE DOORS ON PEOPLES BRAINS 😭 omg
Brain2Pix: Fully convolutional naturalistic video reconstruction from brain activity
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Same talk heading, not the same talk. I always learn so much preparing for these but we all learn plenty more by engaging in conversation so please come listen and lets talk.
My masters was a merger of neuroscience and deep learning. This gone be fuuuun. Excite.
Excited for this 👇
@nerv_online
presents Pelonomi Moiloa (
@tamati_biskit
): Protecting Machines from Us
🎉🤖🌟
Wed 23rd Sept
See you there! 👁🗨
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Go see Jade tomorrow!
Talking about "Machine Learning Plumbing" this Thursday at
@teamretrorabbit
, where I talk about all the things that no one ever tell you about deploying ML in models into production!
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Rather than the extraction of material wealth from our lands for economic exploitation, at the heart of this new colonialism is the extraction of our talent. And it’s devastating.
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Throw in buzzwords AI, Cloud, Block Chain, Agile everyone claps and we call it a day
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@gquaggiotto
@racheladamsward
@phat_controller
@Andrejcisneros
References Ubu-ntu but does not reference any of the indigenous technologists who are doing this work. 🤷🏽♀️
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Guys I’m crying. Our people are lost. I am looking at CVs and cannot believe. You have a BCom but your CV is 4 lines long. Who told you this would be useful? Please, can we help each with our applications to jobs, university, scholarship programs. No man.
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This hits me in the feels
Hong Kong protestors are on another level. Here they’re using lasers to avoid facial recognition cameras. A cyber war against Chinese artificial intelligence.
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Working on this project was great!
We are proud and excited to announce the launch of our report, created in partnership with
@africanofilter
. This report serves as a spotlight, highlighting the glaring imbalances about whether Africans are considered experts in their own history. Click
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100% And I start earlier and finish earlier with less distractions mcm
This is sooo true! I didn’t take my hour lunch break like I would have if I was in the office.
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@_naomiza
@SynStalker
@Sewagodimo_M
@ke_TshiamoS
@bonjora
@mabanga_pearl
@gemmadawsonza
@AmiraMorphism
@Ridhwana_K
I am adding conference call link 😉
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Speaking on Thursday, it will be fun. Join us (:
Book your seat today to find out, why do machines not get us?, where do they go wrong? and what can we do to help them “get us” better?
Join
@tamati_biskit
this Wednesday for an interesting
#webinar
about the importance of AI ethics.
Register here:
#AI
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I don’t fancy Oxford but I do fancy this. Oxford University accepts £150m from US private equity boss for AI Ethics 👏👏👏
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The best human!!!!
It's an honour and humbling to be featured with all these fantastic humans 🤗 Thank you
@Inspiring50SA
and congratulations to ALL the winners ✨🎉🥳 You're so inspiring and I cant wait to meet y'all in person one day
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Yaaaas
Today I gave my Responsible NLP lecture to my NLP class which I have been excitedly preparing for, for a while now.
My student
@ArnolFokam
immediately made some memes and they're so great so I have to share
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🥳🥳🥳
Excited to announce that the Masakhane Research Foundation that aims to support the
@MasakhaneNLP
community has been officially registered in Kilifi, Kenya 🇰🇪🤩🌍🌸
2022 of to a high note!
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@tashadrinkstea
I watched this trailer a few months ago and cried. I’ve never watched a movie that is solely about a kickass character that looked like me. The whole movie, about someone who looks like me. But now I must struggle to watch it because of nonsense like this? Mxm
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@hardmaru
I don’t think I like this. GPT-3 is too powerful for everyone to have access to, so we give access to a corporation that already has too much money, so they can monetize it and make more money?
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@alienelf
and
@LauraMartinus
are pioneering in machine translation of Southern African languages. They are not researchers by profession, just passionate most impressive humans making a difference in the world. What are you doing with your life?
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@RiskkNeutral
@DataDrivenMD
South Africa:1
All of the Northern Hemisphere including countries with very advanced surveillance in Europe:0
#africathedarkcontinent
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Or do I have to put together a team to make this thing happen?
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@alienelf
@_naomiza
@mabanga_pearl
@Sewagodimo_M
@gemmadawsonza
@AmiraMorphism
@ke_TshiamoS
@data_explore
@teamretrorabbit
@bulele_bytes
@WiMLDS_JHB
@DataWomenSA
I think we should have a meeting at my hizay to discuss, plan and delegate
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Hahahahaha. Someone, in a presentation on motor vehicle finance fraud model just said “we don’t want to introduce arthritis into the system” I FEEL ATTACKED 😭😭😭
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Jade, a most exceptional human
I've come to realize how truly wide and valuable my skills & experiences are. Winning the battle against imposter syndrome😭
Very few people are aware of even a % of the things I have worked on, or have any idea what my strengths are - I wear many hats after all 🎩🎓🤠🥳⛑️👒🧢
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They told me I could grow up to be whoever I wanted to be...they didn't tell me to be me.
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Eey!
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70% of attendees at my TEDxAI Salon yesterday indicated that mental health and addiction was the factor most affected by overuse of technology. Check yourselves
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A reminder the metrics are often just proxies of the problems we are trying to solve.
In our upcoming paper, we use a children's picture book to explain how bizarre it is that ML researchers claim to measure "general" model capabilities with *data* benchmarks - artifacts that are inherently specific, contextualized and finite.
Deets here:
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Major face palm 🤦🏾♀️ when modern science is based on modularity and the “experts” are unable to comprehend the connectedness of the universe.
Reading the actual reviews we got for the AI ethics paper we submitted to NeurIPS
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