ESLAM ZAHER
@ESLAM_ZAHER_
AI PhD Researcher @ The University of Queensland .. Interpretability | Explainability | AI Safety | Causal Representation Learning.
I'm very saddened to hear of the death of @Lynguist_0, a friend here. He was a good man, and my thoughts and prayers go to his family. "You are a dwelling-place for wisdom," said a poet of the scholar Ibn Al-Muzarra, "may our dwelling-places be never without your presence."
Glad to announce that my first paper "Manifold Integrated Gradients: Riemannian Geometry for Feature Attribution" has been accepted to #ICML2024 More details on this later.
1/ Could AI systems be conscious any time soon? @patrickbutlin and I worked with leading voices in neuroscience, AI, and philosophy to bring scientific rigor to this topic. Our new report aims to provide a comprehensive resource and program for future research 🧵
«People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy, and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man, I'm flesh and blood; I can be ignored, I can be destroyed. But as a symbol… as a symbol I can be incorruptible.»
Religion: The marriage of ignorance and confidence. This is true, but only if a religion is false. The only true religion I know of combines the ritualization of stoicism, ancestor, hero, civilization, nature 'thanks' (worship) for the debt we owe them for our inheritance.
. . . And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns. And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man.