Professor of computer science at UW and author of '2040' and 'The Master Algorithm'. Into machine learning, AI, and anything that makes me curious.
Sep 17, 2024 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Language models were invented in 1913 by Andrei Markov. His training data was “Eugene Onegin”, and he computed the parameters by hand.
His model is now called a Markov chain. Google’s PageRank algorithm is a Markov chain where instead of predicting the next word we predict the next Web page reached by following a random link from the current one.
Sep 10, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The Real AI 100
@TIME's list of the supposedly 100 most influential people in AI is such a mess that as a public service I've taken the time to compile a more reasonable one:
Pieter Abbeel @pabbeel
Ajay Agrawal @professor_ajay
Sam Altman @sama
Marc Andreessen @pmarca
Susan Athey
Yoshua Bengio
Nick Bostrom
Tye Brady @spaceguytye
Greg Brockman @gdb
Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn
(1/10)
@TIME @pabbeel @professor_ajay @sama @pmarca Rod Brooks @rodneyabrooks
Tianqi Chen @tqchenml
Soumith Chintala @soumithchintala
Yejin Choi @YejinChoinka
François Chollet @fchollet
Kyle Cranmer @KyleCranmer
Bill Dally
Jeff Dean @JeffDean
Luc De Raedt @lucderaedt
Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich
(2/10)
Jan 2, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Half of the female STEM faculty in the US were hired over more qualified men.
It's striking how the responses to this are just a torrent of insults, without the slightest attempt to actually refute the claim.
