#AcademicRunPlaylist - 9/2/24

I got to spend some time on the water for Labor Day, and I was able to enjoy the lovely scenery with some talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a great talk by Modestha Mensah with an African feminist decolonial perspective on AI ethics at the Institute for Science and Ethics. Mensah examines the ecological effects of AI here in detail, connecting it with the experiences of African people, and women in particular, to center issues that are often ignored https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWHooBoli8E

Next was an interesting conversation with Grigorios Antoniou on the impact of international industrial conferences from the 50s to the 90s on business leader networks at the Hagley Museum and Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMWTDV5XLjo

Last was an incredible pair of talks by Ludwig Schmidt (evaluating training sets for multimodal models) and Ranjay Krishna (evaluation of vision-language models) at #CVPR2024. I highly recommend both talks, and I particularly liked how Krishna shows the significant limitations of many popular benchmarks and just how poor large vision models are at scene composition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX92Eg6nJEo