Vice Provost & Dean @NUSingapore/@NUSCollege; @NUS_Law; Director @AISingapore | AI & data | international law | occasional fiction | the odd New Yorker cartoon

Singapore
Joined August 2011
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Deepfake extortion is on the rise. On CNA’s Asia Now, @ProfChesterman discusses the urgency of AI regulation in Southeast Asia & beyond. Through NUS’s iGYRO project, his team tracks global legislation and tackles misinformation. 📺 bit.ly/4nEu56z #iGYRO #CTIC
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Our entry for 'hyperbole' is probably the greatest thing ever written in the English language.
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Seeking outstanding candidates for tenure-track positions across different disciplines! Join NUS – a world-leading institution at the forefront of research, teaching & innovation. Let’s #ShapeTheFuture together! For details and to apply - nus.edu/JoinNUS!
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Optimist: glass half full Pessimist: glass half empty Reviewer 2: why hasn't this glass cited me?
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“Energised and inspired to kick off another academic semester!”
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My name is Mandy Patinkin. You killed my Twitter. Prepare to Threads.
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"When you think about the race in AI, it's really a question of which race you're trying to run," @ProfChesterman, Dean at @NUSingapore, said in an interview at #BrainstormAI Singapore. bit.ly/3KfetEJ
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We don’t write for fame, or fortune, or influence. We write because we forgot we agreed to write
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How to research: 1) Start reading paper 2) Open up new tab for each interesting reference 3) Save all new papers in "to be read" folder 4) Never close tabs 5) Never read papers
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"Handbook on the #ethics of #AI" @ElgarPublishing can now be previewed at @Google books. You can read the entire introduction and have a look at many of the chapters. Unlike previous handbooks, this one is dedicated to diversifying the field of #AIethics books.google.com/books?id=x2…
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Study Humanities. Run the Country. In classrooms on Monday.
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How I published 80 articles during a single long weekend: - All the data were collected by student assistants (uncredited) - 25 papers were responses to myself - I lie about reading incredibly fast - I lie about writing even faster
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Gymnastics is the Turing test of video generation models
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Co-authoring with friends is awesome because you’ll be like, “once we finish this short article that ruined our lives we should do a multi volume book series”
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Reporter: “would you be free for a 10 minute conversation?” Academic: “yes, but I’ll need 14 hours prep to question my qualifications and self-worth”
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112 years ago today, Franz Kafka captured the academic experience
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Academics: "I'll just highlight the interesting stuff in this PDF" The PDF:
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Please !
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Artificial intelligence was asked to make a picture of Mother Teresa fighting against poverty and this is the result
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