#AAAI20 – a weekend in tweets

by Lucy Smith

10 February 2020

From the ethics conference (AIES)

Been looking forward to @OsondeOsoba's talk, "Technocultural Pluralism: A “Clash of Civilizations” in Technology?" https://t.co/ubbefB76RO #AAAI20 #AI #ethics pic.twitter.com/tz8psY0y9I

— Charlie Oliver (@itscomplicated) February 8, 2020

https://twitter.com/biancawylie/status/1226272621374902272

.@ginasue calls on us to conduct more on-the-ground research about situated ai users, uses, appropriations, impacts, and beliefs #aies2020 #AAAI2020 as well as more dialogue between policymakers, communities, and technologists https://t.co/VY87giwh10 pic.twitter.com/dPWBe3MNIq

— Meg Young (@megyoung0) February 8, 2020

From Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI)

Introduced our friendly neighbourhood conversational alien, Zhorai, today at #eaai2020 @RealAAAI with @aigelicwings & Galit Lukin! Zhorai enjoyed NYC, but is ready to head home here https://t.co/XK2PhLYCZ2 & here https://t.co/cWC6W8XnHb 🏠🏠 #conversationalai #nlp #aieducation pic.twitter.com/TQtBrdPI51

— Jessica Van Brummelen (@JessVanBrum) February 9, 2020

AI for everyone! Ben Shapiro and Abigail Zimmermann-Niefield on teaching AI and creating meaningful ML-interactive experiences @RealAAAI #aieducation #AAAI20
–> Note: this includes training a system to recognize wingardia leviosa 😉 #harrypotter pic.twitter.com/dE8peJtKT3

— Jessica Van Brummelen (@JessVanBrum) February 9, 2020

Games

Caught end of David Silver’s talk at RL for games workshop. Packed house! People still inspired by learning games.

I know I was.

#AAAI2020 pic.twitter.com/Rv0XVPUf7E

— Nikolai Yakovenko (@ivan_bezdomny) February 8, 2020

An interactive talk

https://twitter.com/bll_krtl/status/1226260376549019651

AAAI welcome, opening remarks and presidential address

https://twitter.com/ishtiaque_shams/status/1226504664587415552

⁦@yolandagil⁩ giving the presidential address at #AAAI20. Will AI write the scientific papers of the future? pic.twitter.com/MEKpjJyIuh

— AAAI (@RealAAAI) February 9, 2020

Outreach

The #AAAI20 Student Outreach Workshop gives undergrads a chance to build #AI #robots and games on Feb 8 and present them to the public on Feb 9 at @AMNH. Join us for the show! #MachineLearning #DeepLearning https://t.co/ueHsWAQTYv

— AAAI (@RealAAAI) February 6, 2020

Try AI became a reality today! We had a wonderful first event at the @RealAAAI conference in NYC. A huge thanks to all of the panelists, judges, mentors, and students that participated in the event. You are all so inspiring! pic.twitter.com/LIqyVWTO3z

— Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly (@BondiElizabeth) February 8, 2020

A new award

We're excited to announce the $1 million AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity! More information coming soon.https://t.co/uaFeyCqdDC pic.twitter.com/CrbzaJgwyG

— AAAI (@RealAAAI) February 9, 2020

Forks (from the session on Natural Language Processing: Machine Comprehension)

Also, people ask the ConceptNet folks all the time about issues we ran into crowdsourcing common sense. OMG, recency bias/priming of various types. (again @ybisk's slide). #AAAI2020 pic.twitter.com/rzFy1AFwKe

— Catherine Havasi (@catherinehavasi) February 9, 2020

Turing Award session

Fascinating Turing Award session! Hinton’s great-great-grandfather was George Boole, the father of symbolic reasoning. The story of #AI in a single family. #AAAI20 #AAAI2020 @rao2z @frossi_t @conitzer @yolandagil pic.twitter.com/p2najTvBDX

— Prof. Barry O'Sullivan, MRIA (@BarryOSullivan) February 10, 2020

And finally, a tip for badge rattle

Conference tip. If you want to reduce the constant rattle of badges, just clip them like this:#AAAI20 pic.twitter.com/O6NOHhMKqB

— A Wojcicki (@pretendsmarts) February 9, 2020