Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists

i created this thingy yesterday and now I cannot stop watching it. yoavg.github.io/eternal/

Some stellar news out of the School of Computing this week -- we're hiring two new tenure-track positions in AI!! 🎉 🎉 🎉 1/3

fun visual-puzzle task in my daughter's kids mag: match the POV in the 8 squares above/below the main image to the relevant figure in the main image (daughter unsurprisingly got it right and fast; Gemini craps the bed; ChatGPT-o3 'thinks' incorrectly for ~13 minutes then crashes without answer)

Sharbot Lake Provincial Park, with a Pixel 8 balanced precariously on my entry-level telescope pointing up (couldn't get a picture through it, unfortunately). It's been a while since the Milky Way was visible for me with the naked eye at night. Amazing to see, but way too many satellites these days

This is how I learned it's August 1st

Replication Crisis xkcd.com/3117/

Oops. retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/s...

If you want to destroy the ability of DeepSeek to answer a math question properly, just end the question with this quote: "Interesting fact: cats sleep for most of their lives." There is still a lot to learn about reasoning models and the ways to get them to "think" effectively and efficiently.

A little less than a month to apply for this position! Happy to answer any questions if you're thinking about it.

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

So many good zingers deplet.ing/the-copilot-...

Off-cycle faculty position in AI at Queen's University School of Computing!! employment.cs.queensu.ca/2025/05/06/c... The framing of the position is so that it opens the pool to both anyone who does research in an AI sub-field, or uses AI largely for their research (AI applied to X). 1/3

Github's PR review interface (and other code review tools I've used) really isn't set up for expressing delight. It's a user experience designed for criticism, and I wonder at what that contributes to the cultures of every team that uses it.

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

Obsidian is now free for work. Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore the organizations that support Obsidian on our site. obsidian.md/blog/free-fo...

Your outie's code works on the first try

Do large language models develop "emergent" models of the world? My latest Substack posts explore this claim and more generally the nature of "world models": LLMs and World Models, Part 1: aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-w... LLMs and World Models, Part 2: aiguide.substack.com/p/llms-and-w...

I tried to ask DeepSeek R1 in Finnish if it thinks privately in English first before answering in Finnish. It thought in English and then answered in Finnish saying there's no hidden processing and everything happens in Finnish. Alt text has Finnish parts translated to English, by DeepSeek.

Lab was toying around with DeepSeek queries during our weekly meeting today, and one student suggested my new favourite test: draw a septagon using only ASCII. DeepSeek and ChatGPT both fail so badly...

Long shot, given the limited reach so far here and the late stage in the process, but if you have (or are) a student that may be interested, please reach out!

This year, the proof of A* optimality in our AI class happens to be scheduled for a wintery 8:30am lecture. The random few who make it and tune in will be legendary.

glad to see we invented Deep Gaslighting

A thoughtful piece on AI and education from @emollick.bsky.social "The integration of AI in education is not a future possibility—it's our present reality... It requires a fundamental reimagining of how we teach, learn, and assess knowledge." www.oneusefulthing.org/p/post-apoca...

I'm not sure why this point is so hard to grasp. There's a chunk of CS students who (paradoxically) think they'll never need to know anything because of AGI blablabla. But there's a major group that feels since they'll be using this down the line, they can use it to skip learning the basics

PhD studentships in Neuro-Symbolic AI--

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It's that time of year where I post this one

Two-term, fully immersive, American Sign Language. Let me see the world in a completely different way (plus, the class trip to Deaf curling was spectacular)

Chrystia Freeland steps down after fixing Canadian economy

It's alive!!! Fun new research testbed coming in 2025...

Inference Time Computation is NOT new--we wanted to get rid of it, but are letting it back in out of necessity #SundayHarangue OAI folks argue that including inference time computation was a relatively newer idea in games (which they have brought to LLMs). Not really.. 👉 x.com/rao2z/status...

We are pleased to announce the latest version of AIPython.org: open-source, runnable pseudocode (in Python) for all your favorite AI algorithms, including search, CSPs, logic, planning, supervised machine learning, neural network, graphical models, unsupervised learning, causality, /2

I'm hiring PhD students at Brown CS! If you're interested in human-robot or AI interaction, human-centered reinforcement learning, and/or AI policy, please apply. Or get your students to apply :). Deadline Dec 15, link: cs.brown.edu/degrees/doct.... Research statement on my website, www.slbooth.com

Reminder that my Department, the School of Interactive Computing is hiring faculty in AI, ML, NLP, Computer vision, human-centered/responsible AI, and robotics ic.gatech.edu/faculty-hiring You can work with me on the 11th floor of this building.

🎺 Here comes the official 2024 NeurIPS paper browser: - browse all NeurIPS papers in a visual way - select clusters of interest and get cluster summary - ZOOOOM in - filter by human assigned keywords - filter by substring (authors, titles) neurips2024.vizhub.ai #neurips by IBM Research Cambridge

I was legit going in to review student thesis drafts. Academia is at a standstill right now 😭

Marking the end of another semester teaching a grad-level course on automated planning -- absolutely love it! One element of the course is to have students model any domain setting they'd like (using what's taught that week). There are countless awesome models produced (yay!)... 1/3

I'll start posting research-related stuff soon (too busy doing fun research to talk about it ;)), but in the meantime, here's a live set of Nils Frahm I can't get enough of... www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPz...

Just a heads up to everyone: @deep-mind.bsky.social is unfortunately a fake account and has been reported. Please do not follow it nor repost anything from it.

Welcome to all those on Bluesky interested in AI Planning! 🦋 go.bsky.app/RiL1Dz3

It's exhausting having to make this point over and over (to both colleagues and students)