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Jun 23
"In some countries, including Saudi Arabia, Ireland and Malaysia, the energy required to run all the data centers they plan to build at full capacity exceeds the available supply of renewable energy" bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…
"Sweden could see power demand from data centers roughly double over the course of this decade — and then double again by 2040. In the UK, AI is expected to suck up 500% more energy over the next decade."
"And in the US, data centers are projected to use 8% of total power by 2030, up from 3% in 2022, according to Goldman Sachs, which described it as “the kind of electricity growth that hasn’t been seen in a generation.”"
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Sep 27, 2023
New paper from @ria_kalluri, @willie_agnew, @chengmyra1, @KentrellOwens, @soldni & I!

The Surveillance AI Pipeline:

We unearth how computer vision research powers Surveillance AI through analysis of 3 decades of CV papers from CVPR & downstream patents
1 arxiv.org/abs/2309.15084
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Scholars from surveillance studies have long argued that AI research, & CV in particular, feeds mass surveillance. Yet, the direct path from CV to surveillance has remained obscured & difficult to assess. Our paper is the 1st to demonstrate this with rich empirical evidence.

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Surveillance AI pipeline is often obfuscated. CV research perceived by many as neutral, purely intellectual endeavour, when in fact most of it ends up powering surveillance + surveillance operates in the dark & surveillance producers take extra measures to hide their existence
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Jun 30, 2023
New paper!📢
On Hate Scaling Laws for Data-Swamps with @vinayprabhu, Sang Han & @VishnuBoddeti
Paper:
Code: https://t.co/rfK541SIql

WARNING: Contains examples of hateful text & NSFW images that might be disturbing, distressing, &/or offensive

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1/ https://t.co/5slkQpPYxvarxiv.org/abs/2306.13141
github.com/vinayprabhu/ha…
What is the cost of scale? To find out, we audit the-LAION 400M and LAION-2B-en datasets (and models trained on them), the datasets behind Stable Diffusion & other SoTA models.

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Fundamental to the multimodal model (StableDiffusion, Midjourney, Dall-E, Imagen, Parti, and BASIC) boom is large-scale visio-linguistic datasets containing image-text pairs, such as LAION.

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May 5, 2023
we do. we wrote about 2 major undersea cables in Africa owned by Google & Meta explaining how they 1) physically follow the transatlantic slave trade route & 2) ideologically constitute a new form of digital colonialism. our paper was rejected cuz it doesn't reference Western lit
our choice to mainly cite African scholars was intentional (not because we aren't aware of Western folks writing on decolonialism) but that unfortunately got us rejected
not to sound bitter because my paper is rejected but this exactly is how African research is censored and excluded for not centering white folk
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Jan 22, 2023
Nick Bostrom, Longtermism, & the Eternal Return of Eugenics by @xriskology truthdig.com/dig/nick-bostr…

part of what Bostrom, an Oxford University philosopher who’s been profiled by The New Yorker & become highly influential in Silicon Valley, sent to the listserv of “Extropians”

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"longtermism, which emerged out of the effective altruism (EA) movement over the past few years, is eugenics on steroids."
“I have caught wind,” Bostrom writes, “that somebody has been digging through the archives of the Extropians listserv with a view towards finding embarrassing materials to disseminate about people.” He continues, writing as if he’s the victim:

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Jan 21, 2023
📢Indaba Awards 2023📢 a celebration of African research excellence & impactful work in Artificial Intelligence. These awards are a celebration of intellectual giants of our continent.

Apply/nominate/spread the word! deeplearningindaba.com/blog/2023/01/d…

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1) The Kambule Doctoral Award, in Honour of Dr Thamsanqa W. Kambule, one of South Africa's greatest mathematician & teacher remembered for his life’s contribution to education, specifically Black education under the Bantu Education Act.

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The Kambule Doctoral Award recognises & encourages excellence in research & writing by doctoral candidates at African universities, in any area of computational & statistical sciences

All African scholars, submit your PhD thesis/nominate others here: deeplearningindaba.com/2023/awards/ka…

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