"AI doomer" media gets clicks and listens, but there is no logical reason to believe that today's frontier LLMs will "wake up" and become the terminator. The major problem is that “AGI” is an overloaded term. We should retire it: syntheticminds.substack.com/p/retiring-a...

I was featured on the Academic Minute, which airs on over 70 radio stations around the US and Canada. In the segment, I introduce continual learning for the non-AI audience: academicminute.org/2025/02/chri... #ai #academicminute #continuallearning

As a professor working at the frontiers of AI, I’ve grown increasingly concerned about the cataclysmic impact AI could have on college enrollments in the coming decades—on top of the decline already underway for other reasons. https://buff.ly/4hDInSq #HigherEducation #AI #EnrollmentCrisis

A proposed AI bill would, based on my read (and ChatGPT's), make it illegal in the USA to download AI code or weights created by Chinese companies, universities, etc. This is catastrophically shortsighted. https://buff.ly/4hpjTfC Bill: https://buff.ly/40Vyd9J

I can see why Microsoft stock would be impacted by this news due to their OpenAI investment, but I really don't get the others. DeepSeek used FP8 on NVIDIA's chips to get a big boost in training, among other things, but I think this fear is overblown.

The new US Export Control proposed rule for the amount of compute used to train AI systems is open for comment. I don't think it makes much sense. It puts export controls on AI models trained with over 10^26 "operations." Here is the link: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... #ai #regulation

I'm looking forward to visiting RIT on Friday. I'll be giving a talk on my lab's recent works on large-scale deep learning systems for continual learning and our work on using continual learning to overcome linguistic forgetting in multi-modal LLMs. www.rit.edu/events/cogni...

We’re excited to share INSIGHT, which integrates interpretability directly into its architecture, enabling classification and weakly supervised segmentation without pixel-level annotation. Web: zhangdylan83.github.io/ewsmia/ arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2412.02012 #AI #medicalAI #radiology #pathology

The Call for Papers for CoLLAs 2025, the premier venue for continual and lifelong learning research in AI is out: lifelong-ml.cc The Abstract Deadline is Feb 21, 2025. It will be held in Philadelphia in August. #continuallearning #deeplearning #lifelonglearning #ai #collas2025