Shakir Mohamed (@shakir_za) 's Twitter Profile
Shakir Mohamed

@shakir_za

ML with Social Purpose. @[email protected] | Research Scientist @DeepMind | Strengthening African ML @DeepIndaba. He/Him. South African 🇿🇦🏳️‍🌈🌍

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Ruairidh Battleday (@rmbattleday) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For AI students, researchers & entrepreneurs in London: algopreneurship.org Join our Autumn Summit on Open Problems in AI! What are the next set of challenges in AI research? What are key opportunities for application? Researchers and leaders from the UK’s top AI

For AI students, researchers & entrepreneurs in London:
algopreneurship.org

Join our Autumn Summit on Open Problems in AI!

What are the next set of challenges in AI research? What are key opportunities for application?

Researchers and leaders from the UK’s top AI
Emtiyaz Khan (@emtiyazkhan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We have two open post-doc positions. You dont' have to be a Bayesian but somebody who is interested to work with at the intersection of DL, Bayes, and optimization. riken.jp/en/careers/res… Interest in understanding deep learning and continual lifelong learning is a plus!

Karim Beguir (@kbeguir) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It's Ai Day! Together with our colleagues at BioNTech SE we will be providing an update on our joint work innovating in AI and deploying it in BioNTech's immunotherapy pipeline. Join us for the livestream at 9am EST/2pm UK! To register: bit.ly/3TMPvBS

It's Ai Day! Together with our colleagues at <a href="/BioNTech_Group/">BioNTech SE</a> we will be providing an update on our joint work innovating in AI and deploying it in BioNTech's immunotherapy pipeline. Join us for the livestream at 9am EST/2pm UK! To register: bit.ly/3TMPvBS
Vukosi Marivate 🇿🇦🚀📊 (@vukosi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My @ICMLConf 2024 Keynote/Invited talk from July is now available. Thanks ICML for the opportunity! 🎥 ICML Invited Talk <> Gondzo - Charting a Path for African Low-Resource Languages: A Multifaceted Approach to Research and Development icml.cc/virtual/2024/i…

My @ICMLConf 2024 Keynote/Invited talk from July is now available. Thanks ICML  for the opportunity!

🎥  ICML Invited Talk &lt;&gt; Gondzo - Charting a Path for African Low-Resource Languages: A Multifaceted Approach to Research and Development icml.cc/virtual/2024/i…
Shakir Mohamed (@shakir_za) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’m honoured to be one of the ACM FAccT Programme Chairs this year, alongside the amazing Jenn Wortman Vaughan Sina Fazelpour Talia Gillis 🤩 and we’ve been hard at work already. The CFP is coming soon, but the key dates everyone are now set. Happy paper planning 🚀

I’m honoured to be one of the <a href="/FAccTConference/">ACM FAccT</a> Programme Chairs this year, alongside the amazing <a href="/jennwvaughan/">Jenn Wortman Vaughan</a> <a href="/sinafazelpour/">Sina Fazelpour</a> <a href="/TaliaGillis/">Talia Gillis</a> 🤩 and we’ve been hard at work already. The CFP is coming soon, but the key dates everyone are now set. Happy paper planning 🚀
Jayne Amol (@jayneamol) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The importance of language representation in NLP cannot be overstated. This survey paper by the Kenya NLP group highlights the challenges and opportunities in Kenyan NLP. Give it a read and send any reviews! Link: arxiv.org/abs/2410.09948 Deep Learning Indaba𝕏 Kenya #NLP #KenyaNLP

Dr. Kahira (@ankahira) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fun fact: The idea for this paper was conceptualised at Deep Learning Indaba in Ghana. Almost all authors attended DLI and decided to craft a roadmap for NLP research in Kenya. This is the first step of many.

Shakir Mohamed (@shakir_za) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’m so excited about the launch and the first steps from the Middle East and North Africa MENA AI community. Over the last decade global AI communities have built up Momentum and success and this is a needed addition. Please support them in any way you can. 🌍🚀❤️

Atoosa Kasirzadeh (@dr_atoosa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In our new paper co-authored by Jackie Kay and Shakir Mohamed, we investigate how generative AI can undermine the integrity of collective knowledge & propose strategies for resistance and system design: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIES… AI, Ethics, and Society Conference (AIES) #aies2024

In our new paper co-authored by <a href="/jackayline/">Jackie Kay</a> and <a href="/shakir_za/">Shakir Mohamed</a>, we investigate how generative AI can undermine the integrity of collective knowledge &amp; propose strategies for resistance and system design: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIES…

<a href="/AIESConf/">AI, Ethics, and Society Conference (AIES)</a> #aies2024
Iason Gabriel (@iasongabriel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Are you interested in exploring questions at the ethical frontier of AI research? If so, then take a look at this new opening in the humanity, ethics and alignment research team: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/… HEART conducts interdisciplinary research to advance safe & beneficial AI.

Shakir Mohamed (@shakir_za) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We have been busy this month ACM FAccT. We’ve released the Call for Papers - consider submitting your best work in fairness, interpretability, safety, trustworthiness and other topics in sociotechnical AI 🤩. facctconference.org/2025/cfp also see the new contributor Guides.

We have been busy this month <a href="/FAccTConference/">ACM FAccT</a>. We’ve released the Call for Papers - consider submitting your best work in fairness, interpretability, safety, trustworthiness and other topics in sociotechnical AI 🤩. facctconference.org/2025/cfp also see the new contributor Guides.
ACM FAccT (@facctconference) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We've released the CFP for #FAccT2025, which will be held in Athens, Greece! 🇬🇷 Abstracts are due on January 15th, papers on January 22nd. Read all about it on our new blog: facct-blog.github.io/2024-10-28/ann…

Shakir Mohamed (@shakir_za) 's Twitter Profile Photo

LearnLM - our work on AI in Education - is a finalist in this year's anthemawards which honors mission-driven social impact work. We'd love your vote before the closing date on Oct 31 at 11:59pm PT in these 2 categories: cl.s7.exct.net/?qs=ec7e6ec597… cl.s7.exct.net/?qs=ec7e6ec597…

Ada Lovelace Institute (@adalovelaceinst) 's Twitter Profile Photo

👻Spooked by AI? It’s not the first time policymakers have had to govern highly complex, socially-important technologies. 🪦Read the lessons we dug up from the regulation of carbon emissions, financial services and pharmaceuticals: adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/new-rul…

David Barrett (@dgtbarrett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to share our work on ‘Collaboration between clinicians and vision–language models in radiology report generation’, published today Nature Medicine (1/N). nature.com/articles/s4159…

Nathan Benaich (@nathanbenaich) 's Twitter Profile Photo

News! Modal is supporting @RAAIS fellowships with $10,000 credits on their platform, alongside the $5,000 GPU credits from Lambda. Working on AI-first, open source research outside big institutions? Apply at airstreet(dot)com/fellowships

News! <a href="/modal_labs/">Modal</a> is supporting @RAAIS fellowships with $10,000 credits on their platform, alongside the $5,000 GPU credits from <a href="/LambdaAPI/">Lambda</a>.

Working on AI-first, open source research outside big institutions?

Apply at airstreet(dot)com/fellowships
Ilan Price (@ilanprice) 's Twitter Profile Photo

GenCast is out in nature! It's the first high res ML ensemble weather forecast which outperformed the operational state of the art. And few more things have happened since the preprint was first released ⬇️🧵

Shakir Mohamed (@shakir_za) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The next generation of probabilistic machine learning for weather called GenCast is published in nature today 🥳. Amazing to see the collective progress in ML for weather as a field over the last 5 years. 🏖️ nature.com/articles/s4158…

Deep Learning Indaba (@deepindaba) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Rwanda here we go ! 🇷🇼 We are excited to announce that the Deep Learning Indaba 2025 annual event will be back for its 7th edition taking place in Kigali, Rwanda from the 17th to 22nd of August, 2025 at University of Rwanda. 🌍✨ As always, our team is hard at work crafting our amazing

Rwanda here we go ! 🇷🇼

We are excited to announce that the Deep Learning Indaba 2025 annual event will be back for its 7th edition taking place in Kigali, Rwanda from the 17th to 22nd of August, 2025 at <a href="/Uni_Rwanda/">University of Rwanda</a>. 🌍✨

As always, our team is hard at work crafting our amazing