Thread by @vukosi

Day 1 of #ICLR2023. Kigali is Buzzing with Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. This is a historic moment as one of the biggest ML conferences is held on the African continent for the first time. It's even better as there is a great local presense. 1/n

Our first #ICLR2023 keynote is Sofia Crespo (@soficrespo91) - "Her work brings into question the potential of AI in artistic practice and its ability to reshape our understandings of creativity."
sofiacrespo.com 2/n

I did mention local presence. We have many attendees, speakers at #ICLR2023 that represent @DeepIndaba @MasakhaneNLP @dsa_org @black_in_ai and beyond. Let's all learn from each other and keep building the momentum.

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Our lab @DSFSI_Research will also be part of this week through a number of presentations at workshops and helping out with running the conference.

Thank you to all organisers, volunteers and local coordinators who have made this week possible. 4/n

For those interested in the startup + AI space, please also talk to our @LelapaAI colleagues.

CEO - Pelonomi Moiloa - @tamati_biskit and
COO - Jade Abbott @alienelf

Who are around #ICLR2023

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I attending the "Oral 1 Track 4: Social Aspects of Machine Learning" - Really liked the papers "Quantifying Memorization Across Neural Language Models" and "Human-Guided Fair Classification for Natural Language Processing"

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It's great to experience #ICLR sessions, the posters & sponsor booths. What a great time for AI on the African continent. Enjoying meeting new people and having others come up to introduce themselves. COVID had robbed us of in person, but so many virtual collaborations.

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Our second #ICLR2023 keynote speaker is Girmaw Abebe Tadesse @girmawAT talking on "Understanding Systematic Deviations in Data for Trustworthy AI"

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The last poster session for day 1 of #iclr2023. Buzzing with ideas. 9/n

It's Day 2 of #ICLR2023. Our third keynote of the conference is Masashi Sugiyama. His talk titled "Importance-Weighting Approach to Distribution Shift Adaptation"

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The slides for the talk were made available by the Keynote speaker here ms.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sugi/slide/202… 11/n