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I'm excited to share that GWU is hosting a World Bank Symposium on AI & the Future of Human Capital. For those not steeped in the development, Human Capital == people’s skills, knowledge, and health www.worldbank.org/en/events/20... Some flexibility in the deadline is likely to be possible.

AI & the Future of Human Capital in the Global South: A World Bank-George Washington University Knowledge Symposium

How AI-driven innovations can help address critical human development challenges in low- and middle-income countries. Call for research papers: Submissions due July 18

worldbank.org

I'm an Area Chair for NeurIPS this year. I spent most of today reviewing all the reviews for my 13 assigned papers to highlight reviews that were insufficient. There were a few reviews that were incredibly shallow and some had hallmarks of GPT, and this was a chance to reject those. (1/4)

Question: Does anyone have a pre-computed faiss indices for large datasets (LAION 2B, 5B or similar) that have been used to train CLIP-like models? The one below doesn't seem to work anymore

knn5.laion.ai

I’m curious of any of my friends are at the AI expo in DC today? I’ll be hanging around the George Washington University Trustworthy AI booth for some of the day. Happy to have coffee with anyone!

The kite festival is one of the best days in DC

Abby Stylianou@astylianou.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm lucky to get to work on important problems with some great researchers; @astylianou.bsky.social is giving a talk about our work on image search for sex trafficking investigations tomorrow (Wednesday) at noon (link below)

I'm giving a virtual talk tomorrow at 12pm EST about the work that I've done with @pless.bsky.social @rsouvenir19.bsky.social and @jacobsn.bsky.social on building image search tools to support the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Feel free to tune in. cina.gmu.edu/event/cina-d...

Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 2y ago

The International Conference on Computational Imaging (ICCP) is coming to my hometown, #Toronto! Excited to serve as a social media co-chair for such a fantastic event. With an incredible organizing committee and an amazing city to host, how could I say no?

one of the most insane webcam rainbow images I've ever seen, from (volcview.wr.usgs.gov/ashcam-api/i..., but that might be different now!)

Birds (and bugs!) flying over DC last night

Cool talk at the AI Aspirations event at the old Newseum

A lazy afternoon in Washington DC, in the style of Xavi Bou

An "ornithography" style composite picture showing trajectories of birds flying in the sky.

My favorite tree in the field by the elementary school close to my house. #gloverPark

The prompt was not “a bird on a floating branch”

I'm excited to be heading today to NeurIPS. If you're there and want to chat, drop me a note! If you're interested in faculty openings at GWU this year, also drop me a note!

Real estate options are limited in the DC area

megan peters 🧠@meganakpeters.bsky.social · 3y ago

TIL that NOAA operates hundreds of buoycams that constantly take panoramic images.

what happens to retracted papers in regards to LLM training corpuses? do they get ignored, or do gpt4 et al treat them like any other "trustworthy" high profile CNS publication? 🤔 anybody know?

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3y ago

“Nature, one of the most prestigious journals in scientific publishing, on Tuesday retracted a high-profile paper it had published in March that claimed the discovery of a superconductor that worked at everyday temperatures.”