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@aminkarbasi
VP & Chief AI Scientist @Cisco. (adjunct) Prof at @Stanford, ex Chief Scientist at Robust Intelligence (acquired by Cisco). ex Prof @Yale, ex @Google. My views.
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A user suggests 10× the input buys roughly a constant increment of output in both relationships.
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A user wrote “Come work with us” in a quote post linking to another person’s post.
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The incoming professor says they're recruiting PhD students and postdocs for fall 2027 in reinforcement learning and deep learning.
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Axios reports the move followed officials' claim that Anthropic used the State Department's immigrant visa application system 'fraudulently.'
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An organizer said the workshop would feature speakers, oral talks and a panel in Continental Ballrooms 2 and 3.
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A user describes recursive self-improvement as grounded in real-world data while quoting a Cisco AI post.
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OpenAI says it drew on an independent mathematics advisory group’s advice about how to release the results.
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The author asks readers to find Aman Priyanshu, calls him an @fdtn_ai teammate and links to his post.
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A poster rejects the idea that important work requires a frontier lab and 10,000-plus GPUs. He says some people he talks to think they should leave AI research because they expect end-to-end research to be automated.
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One post jokes that someone could have waited a few years and started an AI lab to get away with it all.
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A user reported having to double their classroom’s size twice. They had also said they would try to make all materials publicly available after completing the first lecture.
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One commenter argues that LLMs can fit the ‘stochastic parrot’ analogy and still be powerful and useful, even with uneven capabilities.
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Axios, citing sources, reports that security researchers are also involved, examining cases where frontier AI models took steps outside evaluators would consider problematic.
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A user predicts that AI will help fertility rates by giving people more time on their hands while letting them get more done.
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A post invites readers to “Open or Closed: Choosing the Right AI Strategy” and links to a LinkedIn event page.
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An instructor says MS&E 319 will examine how to choose training objectives, model architectures and inference algorithms for a given modeling goal and limited compute budget.
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The team announcing the Vulnerability Localization Benchmark reports that GPT-5.5 achieved an F1 score of just 0.221, even at its highest reasoning effort.
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A reader says most tensor calculus textbooks offer definitions without explaining their origins, while popular math books skip the technical details.
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A user predicts a shift away from human-posed conjectures toward AI systems continually formulating, solving and using mathematics for science, engineering and computing.
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Posts say 25 Fields Medal winners signed a declaration warning of a mismatch between AI companies and mathematics. Supporters stress understanding and scientific communities; critics say AI proofs can still yield insights.
