Massimo Banzi

I hate the phrase "hop on a quick call" please stop using it in emails. I will never "hop" on a call , it's not something that would make hop around in happiness..

MUST read on algorithms in the NHS! A young Brit was in need of a liver transplant when she found out an algorithm would be making the life or death decision 😳 Unbelievable story and incredible reporting by @madhumita29 ft.com/content/5125c8…

Sabato 23 Dicembre sono live su Filo Connesso. Mentre cucinate il bollito per Natale collegatevi :) youtube.com/watch?v=b67dAP…

Io che provo ad arrivare alla fine del 2023 #buongiornissimostanchezza

Happy 30th birthday to the videogame Doom . How many hours I have "invested" in this game :)

Good job @MistralAI with Mixtral-8x7B outperforming LLaMA-2-70b github.com/open-compass/M… love that they release Apache 2.0 licensed models (in europe!)

🚨EU AI Act🚨 As others have said, the Parliament is under extreme pressure to accept a package deal on the prohibitions in Article 5 I have the document & it is an absolute disgrace Parliament cannot accept this, no deal can be made based on this, here's why...

Hiring more engineers will amplify fundamental inefficiencies in the organisation, not fix them

Here we go… again?? Mysterious Disease Outbreak in China Has Residents Fearing Authorities Are ‘Covering Up’ New Epidemic themessenger.com/health/china-c…

Woah, the new @arduino Cloud is absolutely gorgeous! Take a look! youtu.be/Sl6TA4TAuis #arduino #iot @mbanzi

The new version of the @arduino Cloud is here and it's amazing. See some of the new features and improved UI youtube.com/watch?v=Sl6TA4…

We have two choices - AGI controlled by a handful of money-making, power-hungry, closed-source capitalists AGI decentralized, transparent, open-source, robust, accessible to all humanity If we ❤️ each other, the choice is extremely obvious! What’s yours?

Cosa serve per fare innovazione diffusa in Italia? In che modo la tecnologia è creatività a disposizione di tutti? Ne ragioneranno @gioiozzia e @mbanzi venerdì alle 18.30, sul canale Youtube della nostra Fondazione. eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-te…

Open source models are second to only GPT-4 and Claude-2 currently! Given their smaller size they are super fast to iterate on Transparency and sharing of research means faster innovation than most closed source efforts Yes, open source may have compute constraints, but…

A St Petersburg court has sentenced Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko to seven years in prison for putting up anti-war stickers – one of the most draconian “fake news” cases since Putin invaded Ukraine. “Even though I’m behind bars, I’m more free than you,” she told the court.

I've been reviewing my screenshots archives illustrating Internet censorship in the PRC. I've got images going back to 2008, and one of the most interesting things to me is to find screenshots showing what was NOT being censored back then, but is being censored now. For example:

This is so welcome and so heartening, and it wouldn’t have happened without the hard work and persistent voices of the technical expert and human rights community. Thank you! This really matters🙏 ❤️ edri.org/our-work/eu-pa…