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Abed Khooli
@akhooli.bsky.social
Senior #DataScience , #AI, #DataJournalism #ddj , #OpenData , #ChatGPT and #IT consultant
#علم_البيانات #الذكاء_الصناعي #صحافة_البيانات #البيانات_المفتوحة
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My notes (and a pelican) for the new Claude Haiku 4.5 model, released by Anthropic this morning simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/15/...
Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5 today, the cheapest member of the Claude 4.5 family that started with Sonnet 4.5 a couple of weeks ago. It's priced at $1/million input tokens …
simonwillison.net
October 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
February 4, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Global Knowledge Index 2024
مؤشر المعرفة العالمي 2024
February 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Qwen2.5-Max from
Alibaba
and Deepseek V3 from DeepSeek AI
are two recent LLMs that are likely to disrupt #GenerativeAI
I asked both about "Fanar chat" (recent LLM from
QCRI). Qwen 'hallucinated' an answer and DS said nothing as of cut-off date (July 2024).
January 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The Future of Media and Journalism in the Age of AI
MENA (Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia): desk research, questionnaire, and in-depth interviews
مستقبل الإعلام والصحافة في عصر الذكاء الاصطناعي: الأردن، تونس، فلسطين، لبنان والمغرب
www.linkedin.com/posts/akhool...
Abed Khooli on LinkedIn: #ai #misinformation #disinformation #factchecking #media #journalism…
The Future of Media and Journalism in the Age of AI MENA (Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia): desk research, questionnaire, and in-depth…
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January 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Research paper on Fanar LLM
الورقة البحثية الخاصة بنماذج فنار
arxiv.org/pdf/2501.13944
arxiv.org
January 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Don’t stop talking about Palestine
January 1, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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That didn't take long! Nomic AI has finetuned the new ModernBERT-base encoder model into a strong embedding model for search, classification, clustering and more!

Details in 🧵
December 31, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Are there any tutorials or starter scripts on training a new #ModernBERT models (or fine-tuning the Answer.ai's model for a language from a different family)? In both cases, a new tokenizer will be trained.
December 30, 2024 at 6:02 PM
The Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index 2024 is out.
Top 10: United States, Singapore, S. Korea, France, United Kingdom, Canada, Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Australia.
MENA has 5th rank as a region with 48.50 average score (world average is 47.59).
Report and data: lnkd.in/dp6ERDMi
December 23, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Attending lnkd.in/dW_DxekM ...
Protecting rights in the age of #AI
LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
lnkd.in
December 10, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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OpenAI in 2024:

“No AI for weapons or military”

“Do use our AI to make weapons to hurt yourself or others”

“Military is fine, but no AI for weapons”

“Sure put it on battlefield drones”

www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1...
OpenAI’s new defense contract completes its military pivot
A new partnership with Anduril, announced today, will deploy AI on the battlefield. It represents an overhaul of the company’s position in just a year.
www.technologyreview.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:43 PM
🌍 AI, Power, & Human Rights Symposium | Dec 10–11
How does AI shape power, amplify oppression, and protect rights?
📅 3 sessions:
🤖 AI in Power Structures
💥 Weaponized AI
🌟 Building an AI Alliance
🔗 Register: [birzeit-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qzM7jCiCQPqmsi0exN7NxQ]

#EthicalAI #HumanRights
December 1, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋

📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗

huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
November 26, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Two recent reports to look at:
Global Knowledge Index:
www.knowledge4all.com/dashboard
Global AI Index:
aiindex.stanford.edu/report/
November 25, 2024 at 6:45 AM
@bsky.app How do I view post stats/impressions?
November 21, 2024 at 2:52 PM
حوكمة البيانات في الجنوب العالمي - لأجل الصالح العام والخاص
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November 20, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Arabic #HateSpeech Detection is not an Easy Task
Dataset + Model
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#NLP #AI
حول صعوبة كشف خطاب الكراهية باللغة العربية
Abed Khooli on LinkedIn: Arabic Hate Speech Detection is not an easy task. Available datasets are…
Arabic Hate Speech Detection is not an easy task. Available datasets are either not representative or have annotation issues. Context is also an issue as well…
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November 20, 2024 at 1:57 PM