Fabio Ribeiro 

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Postdoc at Imperial College London
Generative models, causal inference
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Our awesome Project Manager at our AI/ML research group
@OATML_Oxford (based at @CompSciOxford @UniofOxford) will leave us soon :(

We're looking for someone to take the role: if you know anyone who's interested, please forward the job advert! closing 21/4

https://cs.ox.ac.uk/news/2152-full.html

Oxford AI Research Group Project Manager

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Department of Computer Science

As of 2020 around 70% of AI PhDs were hired by industry.

The number of AI university faculty hired by industry has skyrocketed 8x in recent years.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade2420

The growing influence of industry in AI research

Industry is gaining control over the technology’s future

Science
Is Mastodon still alive 👀
Aye
83.3%
😅
16.7%
Poll ended at .
What's more impressive to you?
Diffusion Models
38.5%
ChatGPT
46.2%
A bottle flip 🙃
15.4%
Poll ended at .

As many suspected:

“Midjourney Founder Admits to Using a ‘Hundred Million’ Images Without Consent”

https://petapixel.com/2022/12/21/midjourny-founder-admits-to-using-a-hundred-million-images-without-consent/

Midjourney Founder Admits to Using a 'Hundred Million' Images Without Consent

It has outraged artists and photographers.

PetaPixel
I wrote about how I cannot understand why anyone is interested in joining a new centralized social media platform when we now have a great opportunity to move to protocols instead of platforms. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/21/why-would-anyone-use-another-centralized-social-media-service-after-this/
Why Would Anyone Use Another Centralized Social Media Service After This?

So, it’s been quite a year for legacy, centralized social media — and all without any really big change to the laws that govern it (yet — the EU’s are coming into force shortly, but pos…

Techdirt
The explosion in growth for Mastodon, including among mainstream, non-tech users, is genuinely exciting. That an open-source, interoperable, nonprofit-driven protocol could reach this kind of success is incredible. The future looks bright ❤️

Pretty fucking bold of these scientists to scrape one of my copyrighted photographs off the internet and then re-release it uncredited under a Creative Commons license because they used it for training data for an algorithm.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sample-images-of-each-class-of-the-self-created-dataset-for-early-pest-detection_fig1_366224366

Downloading VS Code - Insiders

New (exciting!) in-person research internship opportunity for causal inference/computational social science PhD students:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1504692/Research-Intern-Causal-Inference-and-Network-Connectivity

Come and work with us!

#ai #causalinference #computationalsocialscience #job #internship

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