In the mid 2010s biology folks figured out how to do human gene editing. The community took one look, realized the consequences would be so dire for humanity, and put a hard stop to it. People like Jiankui He were excoriated for illegally editing embryos. Why wasn't this the case with GenAI?

How was no one talking about this?* IJCAI-ECAI 2026 @ijcai.org levying a $100 fee per submission unless every author on the paper is only on that one submitted paper. * rhetorical question. I assume the ICLR drama drowned it

Case in point. Good grief.

Took me about 5 minutes to dig out the identity of the 40 questions reviewer — after someone posted it on the other site; I dunno how to search Xiaohongshu directly. Honestly, I don't think western academics are going to feel a fraction of the shitstorm that the Chinese ML community's probably in.

many such cases Simpsons-tier prescience

There's a reviewer at ICLR who apparently always writes *exactly* 40 weaknesses and comments no matter what paper he's reviewing. Exhibit A: openreview.net/forum?id=8qk... Exhibit B: openreview.net/forum?id=GlX... Exhibit C: openreview.net/forum?id=kDh...

Saw an insanely cool paper (Weihao Tan @ NTU (sg) plus Bytedance and PekingU collabs) on the other site: a VLM agent pretrained on human gameplay videos + action primitives can fully play video games. Very impressive work, esp. the inference process. www.lumine-ai.org arxiv.org/abs/2511.08892

*Urgently* looking for emergency reviewers for the ARR October Interpretability track 🙏🙏 ReSkies much appreciated

It feels funny that publishing in NeurIPS has become such a mild signal of quality that people are now promoting the exact percentile ranking of their papers instead.

Is OpenReview gonna go down for 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 major conference from now on?

How much do instruction-tuning datasets (e.g. Alpaca, Dolly) resemble everyday LLM usage? It's a bit of a weirdly basic question, but I'm not up to date with instruction tuning. (I'm looking at model-agnostic single-turn Prompt-Response paired data, and ShareGPT is really messy and multi-turn)

Folks on ML socials these past few weeks.

My dad's been watching instructional car videos and every other video he opens is utter slop. I'm in the room and it's SO obvious to me that a video with generated images/panning stock photos and a steady, droning narration in numbered list format is slop. Even he can tell But for how much longer?

Recommender systems have quite literally broken younger folks' ability to search. I'm not kidding you, the average user is utterly incapable of finding content without a recommender feeding them things. That's why forums died but reddit survived as a social platform, because forums don't use recsys.

Nobody seems to have mentioned the blog post yet that dropped yesterday that 'debunks' K2-Think. Turns out, it's guilty of the classic sins of train-on-test and sketchy-comparisons. www.sri.inf.ethz.ch/blog/k2think

Still boggles the mind how one of the dullest and most uninspiring pieces of Harry Potter fanfiction led to where we are today.

absolutely incredible credits: u/showermusicc on reddit

Thinking that any more than 10% of machine learning and AI research counts as 'science' is the real cope here.

rip openreview Apparently 60k+ reviews was too much to handle. Hope no one's getting desk rejected at AAAI over non-submission of revieiws.

All these citation managers and notetaking apps and somehow I managed to fall back on a word document with my references as <short note on where/why I'm citing this> <url> 😮‍💨 Zotero's great, but at this stage of writing, adding things as I find them seems to interrupt my stream of consciousness

Wait, so #NeurIPS is at three different locations simultaneously this year? Well, technically two plus a semi-official satellite location. I love the inclusivity but I'm concerned about how sustainable this is.

this exists. This is called an API.

Honestly Bsky is so lefty that when I see the occasional fascism supporter I have to do a double-take to make sure they're not doing A Bit. And it's kind of refreshing because it's what the internet used to be like 10-ish years ago.

Oliver Suchanek and @katta.bsky.social at #CHI2025. Refreshing to see a good deaf-hearing collaborator dynamic: both presenters signed, and interpreters did the voicing. So much more respectful than the typical scenario of the deaf presenter signing and the hearing presenter talking up a storm.

I hate to say it but it needs to be said. The "center of AI discourse" no longer exists. r/MachineLearning had solid discourse killed by the API boycott. AI Twitter got swamped by grifters and then killed by algorithm changes and fascist takeovers. On Bsky it was obviously stifled in the cradle.

As awful as this is, travelers from the global south are treated like this at all times 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 we go. I'd never even dare to show up at immigration without a full, precise itinerary, proof of purpose of visit, and even letters of leave of absence from my job/school.

I think it's noteworthy how spoiled we in ML/NLP/CV are for venues. Miss a deadline or get rejected? The next deadline for a relevant venue of equal prestige is just a month or two away! (and this is honestly contributing a lot to the over abundance of papers in the field)

oh. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 why people complain so much about the review process

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

for those out of the ICLR drama popping off (again) suddenly openreview.net/forum?id=et5... @kempelab.bsky.social refused to cite Schaeffer and Gerstgrasser's (no Bsky @) prior paper on Model Collapse at COLM on grounds of ethical and quality concerns. AC rejects. PCs override and accept.

Noticed that my GPU seems to sing a bit (coil whine I guess?) when doing inference with a LLM, and apparently different models have different noises they make Can barely hear it in person, but if you put a microphone right next to the GPU you can hear the machines grinding their gears

Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)

The silver lining (or perhaps more than a lining) is that progress on GPT-5 seems to have stalled so badly they had to push this marketing stunt just to stay relevant. It's funny, you could also almost do this right at home way back in 2017

Archives and datasets are NOT the same thing and anyone aiming at LibGen instead of Meta is shooting all of humanity in the foot just because they can't be assed to understand the importance of 'piracy' in knowledge preservation, open-access, free speech and defeating censorship.

It was really fun working on this! Doing human participant studies isn't as scary as you'd think. If you're into personalizing LLM outputs or Human-AI collaboration, feel free to check out the paper!

Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline.

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I remember talking about almost exactly this concept with a friend just a few months ago. We didn't have the bandwidth to investigate further, but it's a super useful application and I'm happy and validated to see this paper out.

Has anyone been doing or planning to do any qualitative tests on GPT-4.5? Early vibes I've been hearing say it's better on benchmarks (obviously) but apparently Karparthy did a vibes test and 4.5 failed spectacularly despite OpenAI claiming that this is the kind of task it should do better at.

I interviewed for LLM/ML research scientist/engineering positions last Fall. Over 200 applications, 100 interviews, many rejections & some offers later, I decided to write the process down, along with the resources I used. Links to the process & resources in the following tweets

Not me almost leaking our institution in an anonymous submission and only catching it because apparently my solution to sleep deprivation is revenge procrastination

OpenAI right now

My paper on nanoparticle quantification is out! I did this work at my prev. lab. We ensembled obj. detection and classification with handcrafted features to classify monomers/oligomers in optical images (no SEM/TEM needed!) pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #MLSky #AI4Science #nanophotonics #microscopy

Everyone else out there posting how many hundreds of citations they've reached but I'm just a chill guy just happy to have broken two digits this year

Wait a second. What happens if you straight up put classified material in here? Like, obviously you're going to face some shit but if Google doesn't catch it and ends up incorporating it into a model...

Ngl calling people "Luddites" is so sad and pathetic, so Twitter/X-coded that I had to doubletake to see which app I was on. Also it's almost 2025, people are still trying to scam people with GPT wrappers? One webdev at Blackboard or Canvas could annihilate this site from the market in two hours.

everyone knows assassins are hot and sexy But goddamn...

There must never be a public url for the paper. The only thing that must be leaked into the internet are small snippets and scattered pages. This is how legends begin.

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Hey everyone! The deadline for IEEE Transactions on Games's special issue on LLMs and Games has been extended to December 16th, 2024! Hopefully that will give you all a little more time to get your work in. We're looking forward to seeing some awesome work! transactions.games/special-issu...