Really enjoyed hearing such a nonlinear career path to Ai. It was I inspiring and encouraging 🦋

"Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?" is a NeurIPS outstanding paper!🙌🏿 Congrats especially to the students Rylan Schaeffer Brando Miranda & other awardees. If you want to learn more, check out the oral & poster 👇🏿this afternoon (Dec 14) 1/2

AI regulation has become a hot topic of debate in recent months. So, we decided to bring this conversation to #NeurIPS2023! Come join us at the #RegulatableML workshop! ⏰ 8:55am - 5:30pm, Saturday, Dec 15 📍 Room 215-216 🔗 regulatableml.github.io 📽️ neurips.cc/virtual/2023/w…

I love that “I’m not afraid to be seen trying” is a new motto for so many right now. Because you can move and manifest in silence all you want, but at some point your growth journey will require you to be loud about what you want. You’ll have to be that vulnerable and brave.

Black academics… take it to the group chat or phone a friend. Not in mixed company, don’t given em the satisfaction. Not here.

i like to imagine Ruth Simmons is behind the scenes providing guidance and support through this

A time was had! This has been such a great weekend of writing, laughing and good conversation amongst black women in computing.

Robin N. Brewer, Ph.D. Dr. Shamika La Shawn Reginé Gilbert UMichADVANCE Jazette Johnson Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin, Ph.D. Lucretia Williams Jaye Nias Jamelle Watson-Daniels My favorite tradition! This year we had 7 faculty, 2 postdocs, 12 PhD students… all black women, all in computer sciences!! There is no better place to get mentorship, see that your dreams are possible, share your insecurities without judgement, and get help on your work!

Ive been reflecting on the questions: What are you doing with the freedom that they fought so hard to secure for you? How are you honoring the function of freedom?

oh its not enough that you make sure not to pull the ladder up behind you when you get to where you going. there is so much more responsibility than that. so much we owe to those who came before us and those still to come.

the kid: my mommy is about to be a doctor and help ALOT of people oh no, actually its not that kind of doct- the kid: dont you do math? yes. thats right. the kid: does that math help ALOT of people? I mean maybe some people, idk if I would say al- the kid: see, I am right.

really excited to be at Jamelle’s dissertation defense, where she’s presenting to a packed house! Congratulations, Jamelle Watson-Daniels !!

TODAY I had the true honor of joining Harvard SEAS Dean, committee members, faculty, graduate students, family, friends, and Ancestors at the superb doctoral defense by my former Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre student and now Dr. Jamelle Watson-Daniels!

Congrats Jamelle Watson-Daniels !!

Don’t hand your beliefs over to someone who can’t imagine a more beautiful world than the one we have now.

Identity will only be weaponized in this climate, in this moment. Don’t bring it up. Don’t mention it. Don’t engage in conversations signaling towards it. When it’s brought up, redirect to the strategy. Focus on policy. Focus on strengths. Focus on change. Get it done.

I’ll be at #ACL2024NLP 🇹🇭 in person and can’t wait to catch up with old friends and meet new ones! 🙂 I am presenting two papers: ➡️ Investigating the role of cross-modal projection in multimodal LLMs ➡️ A community-centric study on violence-provoking speech A short 🧵 (1/5)

The Algorithmic Fairness workshop is back at #NeurIPS2024 🎊 ‼️Now accepting submissions Topic: revisiting fairness metrics and evaluation in light of advances in LLMs and regulation 📄 2 tracks: Papers and Extended Abstracts ⏳ Deadline: Sep 12 CfP: afciworkshop.org/call-for-papers