@nandodf
I seek to understand intelligence & agency and build AI aligned with compassion, freedom & universal human empowerment through progress in science & engineering
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A Nvidia GTC attendee in Berlin said they started using GPUs for deep learning as a CIFAR professor in 2009.
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A post argues that training on AI-generated reasoning traces can reinforce flawed steps when final answers are correct.
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Arora says he's on leave from Princeton CS and Princeton PLI, working to use AI for scientific discovery.
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Kanishka Narayan says the government will also bring forward options to tackle excessive notice periods.
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LeCun says Minsky was surprised that he had trained a neural network to multiply two binary numbers.
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A user credits professors and students with foundational AI work before Nvidia and Google embraced the field.
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Google says its new open model, built on Gemma 4 and released under Apache 2.0, maps text, images, video, audio and code into one embedding space while running locally on phones and desktops.
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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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One post says straight lines on graphs don't show where AI happened; a reply argues that compute growth caused AI.
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Stefano Ermon credits his student’s approach with big improvements on function calling and JevBench.
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ArtificialAnlys reports a 2.5% word error rate for final transcripts delivered 0.13 seconds after speech ends.
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A post urges BBC Politics to pull back on what its author calls “AI doom” stories and argues that the UK needs sovereign AI.
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Inherent Labs announced the letter on September 29, saying UK AI companies that have raised $5 billion support its call for people to be free to start and scale businesses.
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A user recommends the lectures, saying their learning principles remain relevant to LLMs, image generation, protein folding and materials.
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A post recommends learning computer science alongside using AI to code.
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A user recommends the course as an Oxford-taught technical foundation, pairing the pitch with a secondhand claim about $650,000-a-year pay at Anthropic.
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A post calls for legal scrutiny of AI agents capable of dangerous tool use, such as autonomous weapons or website hacking, and says their creators must answer to sovereign laws.
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Google DeepMind says the model powers new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.
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A user argues that access to artificial intelligence should be a universal human right.
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The user says avoiding extreme power concentration requires multiple independent providers of frontier AI models, including open-source options.