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Machine Learning, Distinguished Engineer at @Nvidia, CPMP 3x grandmaster on Kaggle.

Andrew Ng a professor at Stanford who taught machine learning to people like Sam Altman of Open AI and who also co-founded Google Brain has called bullshit on AI doomerism.

Ng states that the idea that artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of humanity is a lie being spread by big tech in the hope of triggering heavy regulation that would shut down competition in the AI market.

Crippling Open Source models is one outcome of this effort thatโ€™s succeeding.

https://www.afr.com/technology/google-brain-founder-says-big-tech-is-lying-about-ai-human-extinction-danger-20231027-p5efnz

Google Brain founder says big tech is lying about AI extinction danger

Andrew Ng is a global leader in AI development, and says companies like OpenAI are trying to force governments to regulate emerging open-source rivals out of existence.

Australian Financial Review

I am not sure that everyone gets that RLHF is a form of supervised learning.

RLHF does not work without human labels (preferences) nor human curated training samples.

#machineleaning #nlp

Nice tips for writing better papers (with a focus on NLP research) by Vered Shwartz:
https://medium.com/@vered1986/tips-for-writing-nlp-papers-9c729a2f9e1f

A great read, similar to advice I often give students.

For people at KDD, our team is presenting the winning solution to KDD CUP today. Giba and Chris Deotte will present on our behalf.

#machinelearning @kdd

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Here is our winning solution to the Predict Student Performance competition on Kaggle :https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/predict-student-performance-from-game-play/discussion/420217

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Predict Student Performance from Game Play

Trace student learning from Jo Wilder online educational game