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Brb loading up on my hot takes for this mixer

The Commission has opened the first vacancies for technical profiles in the AI Office today. Only one year of experience is required, so it's basically for graduates. Also, it's a one-year contract (renewable), so it's not too appealing for engineers. eu-careers.europa.eu/en/job-opportu…

Experts testied 5 SOTA AI models (Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s Llama 2, & Mistral’s Mixtral) & found the answers were often inaccurate, misleading, & downright harmful proofnews.org/seeking-electi… great work from Julia Angwin, Alondra Nelson, & Rina Palta

"the Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours (TWh) annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states"thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering…

Join us with the AI & Tech Policy Caucus for "Surveillance Capitalism in the Age of AI" featuring Shoshana Zuboff (Shoshana Zuboff): 🗓️ 4/11 ⏰ 1:00pm | Register: bit.ly/3QcHip1

The vast majority of research effort seems to be going into improving capability rather than reliability, and I think it should be the opposite.

In keeping with our core value of transparency Hugging Face, Irene Solaiman and Yacine Jernite have put together details on almost everything we've formally written to policymakers (& their awesome staffs). 👇 huggingface.co/blog/policy-bl…

📢 AI Snake Oil is out today! I have too many feelings because this book has been five years in the making. In 2019 I gave a talk on AI Snake Oil and tweeted out the slides. I had no idea my career was about to change. Within a couple of days I had 30 or 40 invites to write a

NEW PAPER! 1. Small AI models often perform better than big in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to surveillance, to research capture. This & what to do c/o Gael Varoquaux 🦋, Sasha Luccioni, PhD 🦋🌎✨🤗 and me ♥️👇 arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. This didn't happen because she herself fought for it -- although she did fight hard the whole way to even get to that point. 👩‍🔬 What happened was that the award was offered to her husband, Pierre. (1/n) 🧵

Pierre refused to accept unless it were also extended to Marie -- his wife, but also his coworker and fellow scientist. Together, they made fundamental advances. And so Marie Curie became the first female to break the Nobel Prize barrier... (2/n)