Mahault Albarracin

Mahault Albarracin: Illuminating the Path to Ethical AI in Web 3 In celebration of women leaders in Web3 throughout the month of March, I am honored to shine a spotlight on Mahault Albarracin, a visionary leader and trailblazer in the AI and cognitive computing ind...

Ethical AI? Yes please! Read this interview with Ambriel Pouncy

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"The very phrase trans women are women seems to admit in its construction that trans women are not women. Because if they were women why would they be calling themselves trans?" - Matt Walsh

Matt Walsh says white women aren't women

This research opens new doors in understanding group dynamics and decision-making. It has implications for AI, social sciences, and beyond!

#AI #socialscience #ArtificialInteligence

Our findings reveal how shared 'protentions' - anticipations of the future - enable agents to coordinate and achieve common goals. It's all about predicting and adapting.

#activeinference #protentions #predictions #adaptation

Our work (with @mjdramstead.bsky.social, Riddhi J Pitliya, Daniel Ari Friedman, Toby st-Clere Smithe and Karl Friston) builds on Husserlian phenomenology and Active Inference to understand social actions based on shared goals. Here's how these concepts revolutionize our approach.

Shared Protentions in Multi-Agent Active Inference In this paper, we unite concepts from Husserlian phenomenology, the active inference framework in theoretical biology, and category theory in mathematics to develop a comprehensive framework for under...

Excited to share our new preprint! We're exploring how agents co-construct reality through conscious temporal perception, integrating Husserlian phenomenology, Active Inference, and Category Theory.
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#activeinference #categorytheory #consciousness

Mostly due to the inertia of theories with VERY shaky foundations.

Yes.

Emotion is directionality of focus and velocity relative to direction of travel relative to preference

‘Ecological’ psychology is about the fact that who we are and how we live fundamentally shapes what we do and why

Ofmd's blackbeard/ed reading a letter

#ofmds2spoilers

The EIC seeing my cover letter where I misspelled dear editor as "dead editor".

Also … the fact that National Review thinks this is Scorsese’s “first political movie” just shows they don’t really understand Scorsese’s movies.

Capitalism leads to growth mindset and eventually extinguishes any good thing it might have produced.

Beginning of article from Scientific American sowing a lovely orange-toned painting of a naked woman running with a spear

Beginning of an article reading "Even if you're not an anthropologist, you've probably encountered one of this field's most influential notions, known as Man the Hunter. The theory proposes that hunting was a major driver of human evolution and that men carried this activity out to the exclusion of women. It holds that human ancestors had a division of labor, rooted in biological differences between males and females, in which males evolved to hunt and provide, and females tended to children and domestic duties. It assumes that males are physically superior to females and that pregnancy and child-rearing reduce or eliminate a female's ability to hunt. Man the Hunter has dominated the study of human evolution for nearly half a century and pervaded popular culture. It is represented in museum dioramas and textbook figures, Saturday morning cartoons and feature films. The thing is, it's wrong."

You will be shocked, shocked to hear that "The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong"! 🙄 Duh! OF COURSE IT'S WRONG. But now there's a cool article listing the biological and evidentiary reasons, along with nifty diagrams.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Can anyone recommend a good paper on applying philosophical theories of content—causal, informational, asymmetric dependence, teleological, etc.—to artificial neural networks? #PhilSky #AISky

5/ Far from disappearing after tenure, gendered attrition is actually largest among tenured faculty, especially among full professors. Here, we’re showing odds ratios between women and men faculty, adjusting for career age, employer prestige, and PhD training.

1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵

Empathy is the computationally cheaper way to not have to entertain a million other models of entities.

It's here!!!!!!!

She Was Oprah Before Oprah Alice Travis might not be a familiar name now, but in the late 1970s she became the first Black woman to host a nationally syndicated talk show.

during my residency at the library of congress, i came across a show that hasn’t been written about in 2 decades.

that talk show, “for you black woman,” was the first national show with a black woman host. i found the host, now 80, and profiled her for @nytimes.com

I just dropped a tomato juice on me and my neighbor in a plane

"Let's talk about sex hormones"

There is no "male-only" or "female-only" sex hormone. Yep, you read that right. You've probably heard that testosterone is the male and estrogen the female sex hormone, but what if I told you that we all usually have both?!

(1/x) #HiSciSky #Scicomm #SexSteroids

No, neo-idealism is not the same as neo-materialism and no amount of appeal to authority or belittling will make it so.

Ahem

Sneak peek on my interview with Machine Learning Street Talk. I believe I may have watched one too many Ancient Alien episodes...

The evidence is very clear that every aspect of our mental lives depends on physical operations in our bodies and brains.

We basically know for sure (as sure as one can be in science) that there is nothing immaterial underlying our minds.

Nuha and Fatina, the newborn twins of Nahla Abu Elouf, in a hospital in southern Gaza on Sunday. Photo by Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times.

Twin girls, Nuha and Fatina, were born in a collapsing hospital in southern Gaza on Saturday, days after their mother had to leave another struggling health center in the north. Her babies were born prematurely and need formula, but water is scarce. nyti.ms/46zH7dw

We all do. But some of us have reaaallly good jazz hands

Theory matters. Models matter. Assumptions and assumption violations matter. Methods are not equivalent in their assumptions or statistical guarantees. We do not have the luxury of making inference in a vacuum. That's also why reproducibility/replicability doesn't mean what people think it means.

A perfect light golden ring (the Sun nearly completely eclipsed by the Moon) on a black background.

Why yes we did capture the annular eclipse. Photographed from Rio Rancho, New Mexico, by my husband Jeff Kanipe with a 600mm lens and solar filter.