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@phillip_isola
Associate Professor in EECS at MIT, trying to understand intelligence.
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One post says Dominik's result looked more convincing than expected; another praises novel ideas rather than just scaling.
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One post calls 'AI welfare' morally obscene given human suffering and predicts it will add to a growing anti-AI backlash. A reply argues that calling either view morally obscene isn't useful.
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One post argues it’s a great time to pursue an AI PhD. Another says it’s an excellent time for many people to research advanced AI’s societal impacts, but is less certain the traditional PhD format suits many today.
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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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A commentator suggests testing Astra or Fable on a 10,000-line program, arguing that the tools are more than a “stochastic parrot” while remaining bullish on human expertise.
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The release announcement pitches PufferLib 5.0 on training speed and includes a video.
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OpenAI says its incident-disclosure practices need to expand. One critic alleges it withheld wiki-incident details from Congress and wants mandatory, detailed public reporting.
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The post points to harness-design research as a way to improve performance, highlighting Graph-as-Policy (GaP), which it says was accepted to CoRL.
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A reply says language models could improve with a closed feedback loop, accurate task checks and safety guardrails—but argues the system needed for that setup is still far off.
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Fellow academics from MIT reply with praise for the NunchuxAI release.
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AI safety researcher Owain Evans receives recognition in TIME magazine's annual list.
