Jess Thompson
@tsonj
Postdoc with @SummerfieldLab. Junior Research Fellow @SomervilleOx. Membership & Recruitment Secretary @OxfordUCU she/her @[email protected]
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http://thompsonj.github.io 14-08-2011 04:00:35
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🚨🚨🚨 VERY excited to share our new paper on how AI can facilitate democratic deliberation, published today in Science Magazine! Together with MH Tessler 🇺🇦, summerfieldlab @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, and other amazing collaborators at Google DeepMind we've been building the "Habermas Machine"
Jacques Pesnot--Lerousseau and I are very happy to share this paper. osf.io/preprints/psya…. Building on work by Stephanie Chan we show that human in-context and in-weight learning vary with the distributional properties of the training data in a very similar way to transformer networks.
We are looking for new PhD / MSc students! Machine learning innovations for tackling climate change - e.g. remote sensing, climate informatics, materials discovery, & biodiversity monitoring. Apply by submitting applications to *both* Mila - Institut québécois d'IA (by Dec 1) & McGill University (Dec 15).
Neural networks need a dorsal stream to learn structure in natural scenes! really proud of this work led by Jess Thompson
My exclusive for Observer today: For 1st time FOI data from Oxford colleges shows majority of tutorials taught by early career academics struggling to manage on low pay & ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts. FT profs only taught a third of tutorials last year. theguardian.com/education/2024…
Proud of my fellow Oxford UCU members for bringing this to light. "The union says that pay is based mainly on contact hours with students, but once preparation, marking and supporting students are taken into account, this often falls below the minimum wage in real terms."
