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  1. 9. TL;DR
    Word2Vec was more than just a way to embed words.
    It showed us that contrastive learning works — and it’s now everywhere in LLMs and beyond.

  2. Just given my first technical (guest) lecture to a group of #undergraduate students about #ai and semi-supervised #ContrastiveLearning!

    It was a great opportunity to practice technical teaching ahead of September.

    Topic: Nowcasting #flood risk from social media data with #CLIP and semi-supervised learning.

    Image source: AI generated with Microsoft Designer, prompt: A cat giving a lecture in a lecture theatre, stylised photo
    Reasoning: I doubt this exists online and I'm short on time.

  3. #Baby trains #AI to #learn #English #language?

    In Wai Keen Vong's poster, "Grounded language acquisition through the eyes and ears of a single child", we learned how a multimodal #neuralNetwork model learned words——sometimes multiple senses of a word (like "button": the one that secures clothes and the one you press)!

    Another standout poster at the #Philosophy of #DeepLearning #conference at #NYU.

    #ComputerScience #ComputerVision #ContrastiveLearning #MachineLearning