Robert Pless

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AI & the Future of Human Capital in the Global South: A World Bank-George Washington University Knowledge Symposium How AI-driven innovations can help address critical human development challenges in low- and middle-income countries. Call for research papers: Submissions due July 18

I'm excited to share that GWU is hosting a World Bank Symposium on AI & the Future of Human Capital.

For those not steeped in the development, Human Capital == people’s skills, knowledge, and health

www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...

Some flexibility in the deadline is likely to be possible.

Finally, papers are routed to specific Area Chairs based on expertise and the research community isn't so big once you are in a specific area, so I'll share that I notice both the community members that put extra effort into writing reviews, and those that don't. Thanks you to those that do! (4/4)

Adding this step, where the executive decision maker has the obligation to object to or approve of them, helps align the authority to make the decisions with the responsibility to get good reviews.
Additionally, the Area Chairs see the name of the reviewer (I'm looking at you, reviewer #2). (3/4)

In the past, as an area chair I would end up with a collection of reviews, some of which sucked, and would somewhat throw up my hands and say "these reviews aren't great and I have to decide based on them, but what can I do ... there are too many papers to do anything else". (2/4)

I'm an Area Chair for NeurIPS this year. I spent most of today reviewing all the reviews for my 13 assigned papers to highlight reviews that were insufficient. There were a few reviews that were incredibly shallow and some had hallmarks of GPT, and this was a chance to reject those. (1/4)

Question: Does anyone have a pre-computed faiss indices for large datasets (LAION 2B, 5B or similar) that have been used to train CLIP-like models?

The one below doesn't seem to work anymore

I’m curious of any of my friends are at the AI expo in DC today? I’ll be hanging around the George Washington University Trustworthy AI booth for some of the day. Happy to have coffee with anyone!

A view of many kites flapping in the wind at the DC kite festival

The kite festival is one of the best days in DC

I'm lucky to get to work on important problems with some great researchers; @astylianou.bsky.social is giving a talk about our work on image search for sex trafficking investigations tomorrow (Wednesday) at noon (link below)

The International Conference on Computational Imaging (ICCP) is coming to my hometown, #Toronto! Excited to serve as a social media co-chair for such a fantastic event.

With an incredible organizing committee and an amazing city to host, how could I say no?

(Click to enlarge, the rainbow is outside of the narrow default thumbnail)

one of the most insane webcam rainbow images I've ever seen, from (volcview.wr.usgs.gov/ashcam-api/i..., but that might be different now!)

Welcome! Lots of great people here!

Birds (and bugs!) flying over DC last night

Cool talk at the AI Aspirations event at the old Newseum

An "ornithography" style composite picture showing trajectories of birds flying in the sky.

A lazy afternoon in Washington DC, in the style of Xavi Bou

My favorite tree in the field by the elementary school close to my house. #gloverPark

The prompt was not “a bird on a floating branch”

I'm excited to be heading today to NeurIPS. If you're there and want to chat, drop me a note!

If you're interested in faculty openings at GWU this year, also drop me a note!

Real estate options are limited in the DC area

TIL that NOAA operates hundreds of buoycams that constantly take panoramic images.

what happens to retracted papers in regards to LLM training corpuses? do they get ignored, or do gpt4 et al treat them like any other "trustworthy" high profile CNS publication? 🤔

anybody know?

All creatures enjoy sunsets?

My friends do cool things!

BlueSky firehose in real time cool https://firesky.tv