Xabier Soto
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X . com utzi eta BlueSky-n kontu bat irekitzea tabakoa utzi eta bapeatzen hastearen modukoa da: modernoagoa dirudizu, baina adikzio-arrisku antzekoa izango duzu, eta atzetik dagoen negozio-eredua berdina da. ICE ongietorria den plataforma honetan ez naiz eroso sentitzen, banoa berriro
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Philippe M. Frowd
22 days ago
As Morocco, Mauritania and Senegal clamp down on unauthorized migration, boats are increasingly leaving from much further south, in Guinea, to reach the Canary Islands.
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Migrants using more distant, riskier departure points to Canaries after Mauritania crackdown, Red Cross finds
Migrants crossing from West Africa to Spain's Canaries started using more distant - and potentially more deadly - departure points in 2025 following a crackdown by Mauritania on irregular migration, a...
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/migrants-using-more-distant-riskier-departure-points-canaries-after-mauritania-2026-01-14/
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Melanie Mitchell
23 days ago
My latest on Substack -- a write-up of the talk I gave at NeurIPS in December.
aiguide.substack.com/p/on-evaluat...
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On Evaluating Cognitive Capabilities in Machines (and Other "Alien" Intelligences)
(Apologies for the length of this post, which means it gets cut off in the email version.
https://aiguide.substack.com/p/on-evaluating-cognitive-capabilities
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Eryk Salvaggio
23 days ago
This analysis of papers from 1980 to 2025 goes beyond LLMs, but notes one challenge that arises when research questions rely on the same tools and datasets: “the adoption of AI seems to induce authors to converge on the same solutions to known problems rather than create new ones.”
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AI has supercharged scientists—but may have shrunk science
Analysis of 41 million papers finds that although AI expands individual impact, it narrows collective scientific exploration
https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-has-supercharged-scientists-may-have-shrunk-science
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Don Moynihan
28 days ago
Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
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Nathan Lambert
about 1 month ago
We updated the plots we use to measure the open model ecosystem at interconnects, to guide The ATOM Project, and to understand what's happening. We have ~8 plots to summarize what's happening. First, the high level picture showing China's growing adoption lead.
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Chris Jackson
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks
about 1 month ago
Israel is a rogue apartheid state committing genocide. Palestine WILL be free. Happy New Year! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Sorry not sorry 😘
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Thomas Dietterich
about 1 month ago
I'd like to propose the following norm for peer review of papers. If a paper shows clear signs of LLM-generated errors that were not detected by the author, the paper should be immediately rejected. My reasoning: 1/
#ResearchIntegrity
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Jonathan Aldrich
about 2 months ago
Update: the ACM DL is being updated so that author-provided abstracts are the default view again, and AI summaries are more explicitly labeled with "AI-Summary". These changes should be visible worldwide by sometime tomorrow.
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Emily M. Bender
about 2 months ago
Shame on the ACM. They should know better. In fact, here's a fun exercise to the reader: How many points from the ACM's own code of ethics does this move violate?
www.acm.org/binaries/con...
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A faint, insistent buzzing just on the edge of hearing
about 2 months ago
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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Michael Saxon
about 2 months ago
I'm working on a piece about peer review and conference publication in AI/ML/NLP/CV, and I need YOUR help to understand how the community uses conferences and peer review in paper discovery. Your four short multiple choice answers will help a lot :)
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Paper discovery survey
I'm working on a piece about peer review and want to understand how people in the (primarily AI/ML/NLP/CV) CS community discover new papers to read. I am only talking about totally incidental discove...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScEn3kNd6qy8b1JTJrMkDKJkQ0MOCQPux-fjY2AOGrF3qXYCA/viewform
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Merriam-Webster
about 2 months ago
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Mark Riedl
about 2 months ago
Worth a read: Tim Dettmers (CMU, AI2) on AGI and ASI.
timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/w...
My skepticism has also relied on the physics of hardware. Tim goes into a lot of detail.
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Why AGI Will Not Happen — Tim Dettmers
If you are reading this, you probably have strong opinions about AGI, superintelligence, and the future of AI. Maybe you believe we are on the cusp of a transformative breakthrough. Maybe you are skep...
https://timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/why-agi-will-not-happen/
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Euskaldun izateaz harro ✊🏻
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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‘It touched us from the start’: Palestine savour historic night in Bilbao | Sid Lowe
More than 50,000 fans cheered on Ihab Abu Jazar’s team with the coach and players ‘shocked’ by the outpouring of support during their visit
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/17/it-touched-us-from-the-start-palestine-savour-historic-night-in-bilbao
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Uda honetan
@zubidasoa.bsky.social
proiektua
@mtsummit2025.bsky.social
konferentzian aurkeztu nuen. Harrera ona izan zuen, bertaratu zirenek interes handia adierazi zutelarik. Zuen interesekoa ere izatekotan, hemen uzten dizuet aurkeztutako artikulua (ingelesez):
aclanthology.org/2025.mtsummi...
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ZuBidasoa: Participatory Research for the Development of Linguistic Technologies Adapted to the Needs of Migrants in the Basque Country
Xabier Soto, Ander Egurtzegi, Maite Oronoz, Urtzi Etxeberria. Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XX: Volume 2. 2025.
https://aclanthology.org/2025.mtsummit-2.9/
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Lise Volkart
10 months ago
The MT Summit 2025 program is now live!
mtsummit2025.unige.ch/programme.ht...
📅 Don't forget to register before April 30 to benefit from early-bird rates!
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Programme | MT Summit 2025
https://mtsummit2025.unige.ch/programme.html#programme
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ZuBidasoa project will be presented
@mtsummit2025.bsky.social
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@zubidasoa.bsky.social
10 months ago
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Luděk Stavinoha
11 months ago
"The conclusion is clear: Israel is committing these acts with the intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is committing genocide. We also found that not only is the genocide in Gaza the most documented in history, but the EU and many of its member states are failing to prevent it."
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ZuBidasoa
11 months ago
ZuBidasoa doktoretza-ondoko ikerketa proiektu bat da, migratzaileen beharretara egokituko diren hizkuntza teknologiak modu parte hartzailean garatzea helburu duena. Proiektua EHUko HiTZ zentroaren eta CNRSko IKER (UMR5478) zentroaren artean garatzen ari da, 3-4 urteko epean.
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As arXiv links accumulate, I'm enjoying my read of "The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Migration". Truly interdisciplinar approach, centered on people and language, including two chapters about MT. 👇🏻
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
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The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Migration
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Migration explores the practices and attitudes surrounding migration and translation, aiming to redefine these two terms in light of their intersections and c...
https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Translation-and-Migration/Maher-Polezzi-Wilson/p/book/9781032254579?srsltid=AfmBOoqnlbH3_lHANH3a9aEwv3HmTYpktBeRE1Vs9YsShy7F8H__dV12
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I have opened an account for promoting my current research project. If you are interested in migration and language technologies, follow
@zubidasoa.bsky.social
(Most of the messages will be published in Basque. If needed, in-house MT works fine enough for translating into high resource languages.)
11 months ago
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ZuBidasoa
11 months ago
TESSFIT TEMZIDE YAYA KARAMOKO ABDOULAYE KOULIBALY MOHAMED KEMAL FAYÇAL HAMADOUCHE AHMED BELHIREDJ SOHAIBOU BILLA IBRAHIM DIALLO ABDERRAMAN BAH Iturria: Bidasoa 2018-2023 Irudia: Mattin Sormena
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Mark Riedl
11 months ago
It may not be much longer until we know of an LLM being directly involved in a kill order by a military or government
www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...
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Israel developing ChatGPT-like tool that weaponizes surveillance of Palestinians
The Israeli army is building an AI language model using millions of intercepted conversations between Palestinians, accelerating incrimination and arrest.
https://www.972mag.com/israeli-intelligence-chatgpt-8200-surveillance-ai/
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Margaret Mitchell
11 months ago
AI real talk. We (humanity) are moving full speed ahead at building AI agents for war that can create a runaway missile crisis of mutually assured destruction globally. Is the option of not allowing AI agents to deploy missiles already off the table, or is that still up for discussion?
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Scale AI announces multimillion-dollar defense deal, a major step in U.S. military automation
Spearheaded by the Defense Innovation Unit, the Thunderforge program will work with Anduril, Microsoft and others to develop and deploy AI agents.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/05/scale-ai-announces-multimillion-dollar-defense-military-deal.html
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GITT 2026
11 months ago
While we look forward to a sunny Geneva, why wait to join the conversation? We’ve created a starter pack for our
#GITT2025
friends! 🕵️ Follow researchers working on gender bias in MT 💬 Stay up to date and dive into the discussion! All info at
sites.google.com/tilburgunive...
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Emily M. Bender
12 months ago
🎉 Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 has reached Ep 50 🎉 Dr.
@tamigraph.bsky.social
joins
@alexhanna.bsky.social
& me to look into tech bros’ unhinged ideas about energy & the environment & the techno-fascism of it all.
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
Thx to
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12 months ago
A preprint of my book Natural Language Generation is now available on Arxiv (
arxiv.org/abs/2502.14437
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ehudreiter.com/book/
. Note it is about NLG concepts, its not about the latest LLM tech
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Natural Language Generation
This book provides a broad overview of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including technology, user requirements, evaluation, and real-world applications. The focus is on concepts and insights which ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14437
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Anna Rogers
12 months ago
📢 Based on the recommendation from peer review committee, ARR switches from 8 to 10-week cycles. This will allow for a saner cycle schedule. See the full report here:
www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/im...
The ARR website is now updated with the new submission dates:
aclrollingreview.org/dates
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Kate Crawford
12 months ago
The International Energy Agency just increased its prior growth predictions for energy demand. Data centers are one of the major drivers. Here's why that's significant:
www.theverge.com/news/614356/...
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HiTZ zentroa (UPV/EHU)
12 months ago
Bisita izan dugu! Eusko Jaurlaritzako Hizkuntza Politikarako Sailburuordetzako talde zabalarekin, Aitor Aldasoro sailburuordea, Josune Irabien eta Sonia Rodriguez barne, arratsalde ederra pasa genuen zentroa erakusten eta Ikergaitu proiektuko azken emaitzak erakusten
https://www.hitz.eus/iker-gaitu/
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Vilém Zouhar @ EACL
12 months ago
Error Span Annotation for machine translation. Very high-level, very quick. See you at NAACL!
youtu.be/995GDufPBw8
arxiv.org/pdf/2406.12419
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Error Span Annotation protocol for Machine Translation [NAACL2025]
YouTube video by Vilém Zouhar
https://youtu.be/995GDufPBw8
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SassyMetisChick
12 months ago
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
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HiTZ zentroa (UPV/EHU)
12 months ago
Gogoratu otsailaren 17rarte aukera duzuela euskarazko txatbotak ebaluatu eta ikerkuntzan laguntzeko:
ebaluatoia.hitz.eus
Sartu eta parte hartu, erraza eta dibertigarria izateaz gain, sariak ere badaude!
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Eileen Clancy 🧿
about 1 year ago
ICE is Gaming Google Search U.S. Immigration is Gaming Google to Create a Mirage of Mass Deportations 13,000 archived ICE press releases timestamped to 24 January 2025. "Every article was updated on the 24th ... causing the Google SEO to...rank it higher." Brilliant work
@darakerr.bsky.social
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Alison Leal Parker
about 1 year ago
📢 NEW: The US government permitted Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine without prior consent from even a single Tribe impacted, violating indigenous peoples’ human rights. Our HRW + ACLU report says, out today. 🧵 1/4
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Dr Abeba Birhane
about 1 year ago
this is really bad considering Cohere is considered one of the good, responsible AI companies around. shows there really is no good AI company like there is no good millionaire
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Eneko Agirre
about 1 year ago
Ikerkuntza galdera ireki bat dago mundu mailan: Euskara bezalako hizkuntza "txiki" baterako txatbotak eraikitzeko zein da teknika egokiena? Horretarako euskaldunon laguntza behar dugu, bi txatbot anonimorekin aritu eta "hoberena" zein den bozkatu. Ezetz 20 mila bozka lortu!
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HiTZ zentroa (UPV/EHU)
about 1 year ago
Euskarazko txatbot publikoak hobetzeko zure laguntza behar dugu!
https://ebaluatoia.hitz.eus
Sartu, galdetu eta erantzun hoberena aukeratu. Erraza eta dibertigarria, lehiaketa eta sariak daude!
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I have found this podcast quite useful for finding other researchers working on topics related to language and migration. Go check it out!
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Eneko Agirre
about 1 year ago
Recent developments show that several independent open source initiatives are matching the best close models. This is great news for open, reproducible science, and also for smaller languages like Basque, giving a great boost to our strategy
@hitz-zentroa.bsky.social
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Melanie Mitchell
about 1 year ago
Very good (technical) explainer answering "How has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture?". Aimed at readers already familiar with Transformers.
epoch.ai/gradient-upd...
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How has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture?
This Gradient Updates issue goes over the major changes that went into DeepSeek’s most recent model.
https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-has-deepseek-improved-the-transformer-architecture
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University of Groningen | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
about 1 year ago
What are the possibilities and limitations of Large Language Models like
#ChatGPT
? How will they impact society? And what about their biases? Prof Malvina Nissim talks about it in the latest In Science podcast ep. with hosts
@doctinak.bsky.social
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@wimbrons.nl
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www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...
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Dr Sasha Luccioni
about 1 year ago
To set things clear about DeepSeek + sustainability: it (seems that) training is much shorter/cheaper/more efficient than traditional LLMs, but inference is longer/more expensive/less efficient. So it's worth thinking about the trade-offs that this has in terms of energy and emissions [...]
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Mark Riedl
about 1 year ago
Distillation is violation of Terms of Service. That is not Intellectual Property theft. It’s up to the company to enforce TOS, not the government. Outputs of AI stems are not copyrightable either. Oh, and OpenAI might be violating copyright anyway.
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