Joseph Szymborski
@JSzym
PhD student studying cancer & ML at @mcgillu and @MILA_Quebec 🦀🤖 — ⚖ My tweets don't necessarily reflect the views of organisations that I am affiliated with
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"Hey, <collaborator>! I was watching the Fresh Prince of Bel Air when I got the best idea for the colour scheme of our figure..."
Do fish sleep? Yes! (they also yawn) - Our work on the genetics of widespread temporal niche partitioning in cichlids: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
This is one of the best descriptions I've lately ran into.
INTREPPPID - An Orthologue-Informed Quintuplet Network for Cross-Species Prediction of Protein-Protein Interaction biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_bioinfo
The future of #AI governance is here. Help us shape AI for the benefit of people, not just corporations. Join a global community of policymakers, engineers, and more in ensuring that AI remains open and accessible to all ➡️ open.mozilla.org/letter
Imagine if, in 1999, instead of DoJ bringing an antitrust suit against Microsoft over Internet Explorer, DoC started looking into whether it should be illegal to make open indexes of the web.
In 270 days, the Department of Commerce will determine whether they will allow open-weights or not. if you support open model weights and want something actionable to do, then figure out how to lobby your opinion to them.
I'm excited to show a preprint of a paper my colleagues and I have been working on for quite some time! Link: medrxiv.org/content/10.110… We aimed to evaluate potential causes of variable performance integrating PRS into clinical prediction -- more details below! 👇
Whilst @geoffreyhinton is a *brilliant* scientist, scientists are *not* the people to teach us about risk management. The project manager for the Nuclear Information Project has already warned us about these "muddled analogies", leading to a "calorie-free media panic".
Let's open source nuclear weapons too to make them safer. The good guys (us) will always have bigger ones than the bad guys (them) so it should all be OK.
I have a family member studying virology. Everyone in the course is learning this forbidden knowledge that LLMs are not allowed to pass on. So why do we allow the teaching of virology, but do not allow an understanding of virology to be more accessible?
Will releasing the weights of large language models grant widespread access to pandemic agents? Turns out, yes, probably. 1/5
The reason that (2) is in question and open source AI R&D is threatened is (1). Those questions are not disconnected. If you ask "give me arguments for why turbojets and rocket engines won't kill people", I could respond by pointing to a dozen treatises on how to design and…
Rule: Any theory about risk of harm, no matter how fringe and as long as it evokes irrational fear in the public, will be coopted by politicians, promoted, then used to seize more power.
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority. And Europe should lead the way, building a new global AI framework built on three pillars: guardrails, governance and guiding innovation ↓
Fact check: extinction risk from AI, much like extinction risk from self-replicating grey goo nanobots or from an alien invasion from Kepler-62, should be pretty far down the list of global priorities. Maybe look at the less fictitious risks of climate change, pandemics, and war.
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority. And Europe should lead the way, building a new global AI framework built on three pillars: guardrails, governance and guiding innovation ↓
I've spent the last few months interviewing >60 experts in law, economics, AI, alignment, etc, on the impacts of AI, and safety interventions. Today I'm publishing my first article, showing regulation designed to increase AI safety may backfire badly! fast.ai/posts/2023-11-…
Perfect illustration of why ML/AI is an empirical field, built on intuition. Next time you get lost in a sea of math while reading a paper, remember that the author probably discovered the method this way and tacked on the math later (to pass peer review).
This is a wonderfully clear and simple argument from @MarietjeSchaake that explains why AI regulation must *not* be left to industry to define.
We need to keep CEOs away from AI regulation ↘️ on.ft.com/43L88ZH
You may be wondering: why are some of the very people who develop and deploy artificial intelligence sounding the alarm about it's existential threat? Consider two reasons--
We’ve released a statement on the risk of extinction from AI. Signatories include: - Three Turing Award winners - Authors of the standard textbooks on AI/DL/RL - CEOs and Execs from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Google DeepMind, Anthropic - Many more safe.ai/statement-on-a…
3yrs into the #COVID19 #pandemic it is pressing that we learn to treat it & understand its molecular mechanism. We’re excited to share a collab between the labs of @AminMEmad, Simon Rousseau, and @KTremblay21. Read more in this 🧵 about our pre-print: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
I asked my #dataviz students to make whatever viz they wanted with whatever data they wanted. This was my favorite.
machine learning researchers learn to optimise their own best paper rate through collusion and other unregulated mechanisms reddit.com/r/MachineLearn…
When you’re at a Canada Day 🇨🇦 BBQ tomorrow and you want to be the most interesting person there, bring up this article on Baden-Württemberg’s electoral system and instantly become the life of the party 🎉 thewrit.ca/p/ontarios-ele…
We have successfully trained OpenFold from scratch, our trainable PyTorch implementation of AlphaFold2. The new OpenFold (OF) (slightly) outperforms AlphaFold2 (AF2). I believe this is the first publicly available reproduction of AF2. We learned a lot. A🧵1/12
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