Top 10 Famous Tweets On AI That Made Headlines In 2020
While the year 2020 witnessed some of the most breathtaking innovations in the field of AI, it also witnessed a fair bit of controversial moments. From infamous altercations to expressing disagreements and thoughts, Twitter served as an interesting platform for researchers and tech enthusiast from across the globe to put their words forward. As the year 2020 wraps up, we bring 10 such interesting Tweets, in no particular order, that defined that year in the AI and ML space. 1| Andrej Karpathy on GPT-3 GPT-3 was the most talked about technology in the year 2020. Right from praising the technology in terms of tiny successful step it has taken towards AGI to facing criticism about the hype around it, there were many popular opinions by AI experts around it. In one such tweet, about the technology, Karpathy, Director of AI at Tesla, tweeted this: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1331834386057105409 2| Andrej Karpathy on building a GPT training library In August, Karpathy took to Twitter to announce that he has written a minimal/educational GPT training library in PyTorch with around 300 lines of code. It grabbed a lot of positive attention from the ML community who couldn’t wait to dive in to explore it. It was reported that Karpathy created this clean, interpretable library over the weekend. I wrote a minimal/educational GPT training library in PyTorch, am calling it minGPT as it is only around ~300 lines of code: https://t.co/79S9lShJRN +demos for addition and character-level language model. (quick weekend project, may contain sharp edges)— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) August 17, 2020 3| Sam Altman calling GPT-3 a hype One of the founders of OpenAI that built GPT-3, Altman took to Twitter to call GPT-3 a hype. While he said that the technology is impressive, he admitted to the weaknesses and shortfalls that it still has. The GPT-3 hype is way too much. It’s impressive (thanks for the nice compliments!) but it still has serious weaknesses and sometimes makes very silly mistakes. AI is going to change the world, but GPT-3 is just a very early glimpse. We have a lot still to figure out.— Sam Altman (@sama) July 19, 2020 4| Timnit Gebru on Yan LeCun’s tweet on ML Bias The famous episode of Timnit-LeCun Twitter fight started when LeCun commented on Duke University’s PULSE AI photo recreation model. It had depixelated a low-resolution input image of Barack Obama into a photo of a white male. He had said that ML systems are biased when data is biased. Reacting to this, Gebru replied that one cannot reduce harms caused by ML to dataset bias. I’m sick of this framing. Tired of it. Many people have tried to explain, many scholars. Listen to us. You can’t just reduce harms caused by ML to dataset bias. https://t.co/HU0xgzg5Rt— @timnitGebru@dair-community.social on Mastodon (@timnitGebru) June 21, 2020 5| LeCun’s apology to Timnit Gebru The Twitter fight that lasted for many weeks had LeCun apologise for the way it was communicated. He said he wished she could have had a discussion with him or others at Facebook AI to work together to fight the bias. @timnitGebru I very much admire your work on AI ethics and fairness. I care deeply about about working to make sure biases don’t get amplified by AI and I’m sorry that the way I communicated here became the story. 1/2— Yann LeCun (@ylecun) June 26, 2020 6| LeCun’s tweet to stop the above conversation What followed was yet another tweet by LeCun asking Twitter users to stop attacking each other via Twitter or other means, especially Gebru. Conflicts, verbal or otherwise, are hurtful and counter-productive.I stand against all forms of discrimination. I made a long post on FB about my values and and core beliefs:https://t.co/TMUCPpZu6mThis will constitute my last substantial post on Twitter.Farewell everyone.— Yann LeCun (@ylecun) June 28, 2020 7| Elon Musk on AI regulations In February, earlier this year, Elon Musk tweeted that OpenAI should be more open in his opinion. Further adding to it, he said, all organisations developing advanced AI should be regulated, including Tesla. OpenAI should be more open imo— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2020 8| Elon Musk’s views on Facebook Replying to Jerome Pesenti, Facebook head of AI, earlier this year, Musk wrote that Facebook sucks. He was replying to the tweet by Presenti where he said that Musk has no idea what he is talking about where AI is concerned. Facebook sucks— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2020 9| Timnit Gebru on Google firing her Earlier in December, Timnit Gebru tweeted that Google had fired her. What followed was a huge uproar in the machine learning community about how ethics is perceived in the field of AI. I was fired by @JeffDean for my email to Brain women and Allies. My corp account has been cutoff. So I've been immediately fired :-)— @timnitGebru@dair-community.social on Mastodon (@timnitGebru) December 3, 2020 10| Pedro Domingos on cancel culture in AI community In a now-deleted account by Prof Anima Anandkumar of Nvidia, she had said that she would not review papers by Google until it fixes the travesty of justice meted upon. This was followed by a strong objection from the ML community, and Pedro Domingos, AI researcher and Professor of computer science at UW, tweeted that it’s alarming that NeurIPS papers are being rejected based on ethics reviews. “Insults, taunts, threats — you name it. You’d think that scientists would be above such behaviours, but no…I argued against the politicisation of AI, but they took that as a denial that any ethical considerations are valid,” opined Domingos about the latest episode. It's alarming that NeurIPS papers are being rejected based on "ethics reviews". How do we guard against ideological biases in such reviews? Since when are scientific conferences in the business of policing the perceived ethics of technical papers?— Pedro Domingos (@pmddomingos) December 8, 2020
While the year 2020 witnessed some of the most breathtaking innovations in the field of AI, it also witnessed a fair bit of controversial moments. From infamous altercations to expressing disagreements and thoughts, Twitter served as an interesting platform for researchers and tech enthusiast from across the globe to put their words forward. As the […]
As the year 2020 wraps up, we bring 10 interesting Tweets, in no particular order, that defined that year in the AI and ML space.
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