Cognition cannot be measured

Karen Hao on OpenAI and Silicon Valley > One of the things that you really have to understand about AI development today is that there are what I call quasi-religious movements that have developed within Silicon Valley. The concept of artificial general intelligence is not one that’s […]

Those sound waves sure did reach very far... and they keep on bouncing in my eardrums https://youtube.com/watch?v=6v5FPyYUEGg

Commercial LLMs keep coming back to Elias Thorne. Who is he? Why lighthouse keepers and clockmakers? Two researchers at Cornell dug in public corpora and found it out. It turns out an AI generated story from the days of GPT-3.5 got proliferated in something that could be an indication of an […]

@404media.co wrote about our new preprint on tell-tale signs of AI-generated stories! Cc @dmimno.bsky.social Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492 Article: www.404media.co/elias-thorne...

If you liked Bears Will Be Boys, you might enjoy our new FAccT paper! We prompted LLMs to complete 24K stories about animal characters where gender is unstated. We found that.. bears are *still* boys. And female animal characters disappeared while "neutrality" increased. arxiv.org/abs/2606.079...

@kultura_bg Филмът изглежда гениален с това, че говори универсалният език на човеконенавистните режими... Русия, Израел, МАГА,... "Не ми разказа биографията на кмета – щом веднъж си избран, значи това си ти. Това запомних. Не трябва да играеш някой друг, този човек си ти." именно защото […]

Free to read for all! #OpenAccess

Just wanted to reup this; this is a great book on an important topic & it anticipates 2 terrific forthcoming 2026 books f/ @aarthivadde.bsky.social (We the Platform, Columbia UP) + @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social (Content Machines, Duke UP) on digital platforms + reading + writing that I'm excited for

I think I will do something like that. Possibly complemented by recommending or requiring regular use of Hicks' learning-opportunities skill.

NEW STUDY: Who is the Highway Lobby? “The highway lobby has been shaping transportation policy conversations for decades in its interests.” And they spend MILLIONS buying car dependency to make sure all of us have to spend BILLIONS. #UrbanTruth Via the Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org.

Sounds too much like the Kremlin: "Around the same time, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles forced a meeting of Trump’s most trusted advisers. The problem: No one was being honest with the president about the domestic impact of the war. Privately, Wiles had expressed fears that the inner […]

@reiver agents seem to be cool. But they raise even harder sustainability questions: 1. They consume even more natural resources, because harnesses mean that the LLMs behind will fidget until they fit the answer to the task. 2. They continue to rely on ever larger models, which is the […]

It's mind boggling how US commentators, media or ordinary people, oversimplify what is happening in Hungary. A blank cheque was signed to someone who was extremely secretive during his campaign. Probably the only confirmed fact was that his career is extremely tightly woven in Fidesz. We've seen […]

Peter Thiel—who played a key role in JD Vance's conversion to Catholicism—just cannot stop talking about the Antichrist. He just took his Antichrist circus to Rome, where an advisor to the Pope exposed the true meaning of Thiel’s bizarre religious delusions. www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiels...

@mapto Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Even though as regex it is quite atrocious If you say it loud enough Claude will take precautions Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

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An extraordinary combination of evidence that Epstein operated a Russian honeytrap and it directed Trump as a Russian asset US capitalism has been extremely effectively exploited by the Russian deep state to a level that the whole Republican party is covering it up legally and commercially. The […]

Regarding the extremely insightful exchange between @tante and @pluralistic that unfolded yesterday, there is a bit too much of ideology in it for my taste. However, I couldn't help noticing that arguably the strongest point of Tante about the ideology of LLMs is based on an invalid argument he […]

What we argued in Stochastic Parrots, however, was that you can get those benefits of the transformer architecture without ammassing datasets too large to collect with care (meaning consentfully, intentionally, and with the ability to document what's in the data). >>

In this context, I feel like reminding people (again) that the stochastic parrots paper was not primarily a response to synthetic text extruding machines (not at all popular in late 2020), but an exploration of the range harms that had already been documented in the pursuit of LM scale. >>

ggml.ai joins HuggingFace ggml.ai is better known as the entity behind llama.cpp. It's nice to hear good news! Thank you @ggerganov and @huggingface https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/19759 @llm

One would have expected that at least in Germany they would've learned from the past. It appears the people that for whatever reasons ended in this jury are incapable of reflecting on it. “There are many other wars where genocide is committed, and we do not talk about that. So this is a very […]

Mass migration of US scientists to Europe "According to data from the European Research Council (ERC), the European Union’s premier funding agency for basic research, applications from the United States for its starting, consolidator and advanced grants to individual researchers — worth up to […]

The platforms don't want to be perceived as legally responsible for content. So they treat it as individual bad actors/accounts. This happened on FB when prominent Filipino journalists got death and rape threats. Turned out to be coordinated attacks by the regime.

After the halftime show, are you curious about how Puerto Ricans feel about statehood and our possible futures in relation to the US? Check out “It’s Complicated” losangelesreview.org/wp-content/u... #puertorico #badbunny #prstatus #superbowl #halftimeshow

Everyone's learning AI. But who's teaching data prep, output validation, and sustainable infrastructure? Our DHSI course Week 2 June 15-19: "Processing Your XML/TEI" teaches you XPath, XSLT, XQuery, and Schematron—skills to apply WITH AI tools on your terms. Future-proof your work. bit.ly/dhsi-xpath

The case of “vegetative electron microscopy” illustrated here shows what is badly needed in current #llm research and has implications far beyond. We need tools that help is curate huge corpora. We need to be able to trace #hallucinations back to the training data and understand what are the […]

"We analyze all papers published at ACL, NAACL, and EMNLP in 2024 and 2025... nearly 300 papers contain at least one HalluCitation... Notably, half of these papers were identified at EMNLP 2025 ... indicating that this issue is rapidly increasing." https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.18724

@balkanika Or can there be a middle way for culture in times of war? When I asked Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer, about this, she pointed me to the Ukrainian photojournalist and film-maker Mstyslav Chernov’s Bafta-nominated documentary 2000 Meters to Andriivka, a film […]

@balkanika It’s understandable to feel frustrated with political leaders of the past having manoeuvred Europe into this conundrum, or with those of today remaining in the “comfort zone of cowardice and inaction”, as Nathalie Tocci wrote. But we should also ask what role we have to play in this – […]

“Единственият начин да ги спрем, е така както спряхме законопроекта за бюджета” #Протести2026 #СвободниИЧестниИзбири #СамоМашинноГласуване #МафиятаВънОтБългария #GenZRules

Mark Carney on the rupturing world order in Davos. This is an important call to collective action. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7052901

This is how superficial one needs to get to justify an argument of US global supremacy. Arthur Herman and WSJ deliberately choose to ignore Taiwan's unmatched leadership in superconductors, turning to Soviet-style resources and headcount arguments. Apparently there is a force driving them to […]

България е на път отново да поднови договорите на Microsoft Това отново ще стане без дебат и без оглед на рязко влошаващите се условия. Не се говори за процесите в Австрия и Дания (за които има информация в @libre) за тотално освобождаване от зависимостта. Дори ЕК задейства консултации за […]

@pei0.bsky.social имат инерцията на гигантска страница за малки обяви. Важи и за мета между другото. https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/vzotw3/oc_top_revenue_sources_for_tech_firms/

I think I now know where to draw the line between "good" and "bad" #genai, and possibly (or rather obviously) the same for #machinelearning. It's simply whether the input data has been constructed rigorously. Put this way it's the most obvious statement ever, but somehow #bigtech have convinced […]

Broken link fixed! Предполагам, че немалко от българоезичните потребители тук се интересуват дейността на ПП Зелено движение и способността им да създадат избираема политическа алтернатива. Можете да следите новостите от официалния им сайт през този акаунт: @zelenodvizhenie.bg.web.brid.gy

@resist прави ми впечатление, че тези 5 колони много добре отразяват какво са поразили комунистите в България през 1945 и какво в момента Рапона и Шиши стискат здраво. Бих добавил само спортните клубове, но те сигурно влизат в professional association.

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Home Office tells Gaza academic his bid to bring family to UK not urgent

Even if so, this was the easy part. What lies ahead of them is a lot of obstructionism by whatever is left from the regime, and a lot of interference from any world country with hegemonic ambitions and available resources. Israel and China are only the most obvious

GeoConfirmed Iran. The Baloch group Jaysh al-Adl targeted Major Mahmoud Haghighat, the attack took place in the village of Shahr Deraz 27.178104, 60.727068 5PHG+6RW Shahr Draz, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran GeoLocated by @taod51.bsky.social

The regime likely determined that the current protest movement represents an extremely dire security threat and the regime has intensified its crackdown, including by taking the rare step of using IRGC Ground Forces to suppress protests in at least one province 1/7 Read more isw.pub/IranUpdate01...

#Iran, you have a friend... @cathywilcox.bsky.social

@jdp.extropian.net I personally am very sceptical that such a data-driven approach ("generating a balanced dataset of faithful (green check) and hallucinatory (red cross) responses using the TriviaQA benchmark") could even capture what model hallucinations really are. I'd think one first needs a […]