I'm hiring a student researcher for next summer at the intersection of MARL x LLM. If you're a phd student with experience in MARL algorithm research, please apply and drop me an email so that I know you've applied! www.google.com/about/career...

Hundreds of hours of European driving data from NVIDIA! 1700 hours total

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS! 1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622 2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

Our NeurIPS submission arxiv.org/abs/2502.08938 did not get in, but it's one of my favorite papers and I think one of the better papers we've ever put out so I want to highlight it

Do you have a PhD (or equivalent) or will have one in the coming months (i.e. 2-3 months away from graduating)? Do you want to help build open-ended agents that help humans do humans things better, rather than replace them? We're hiring 1-2 Research Scientists! Check the 🧵👇

Archive of archives. worrydream.com/Links2025/

Claude Code, meet your rival: Gemini CLI 🔥🚀 Google just unleashed Gemini 2.5 Pro at the command line—free, open-source (Apache 2.0) , 1-million-token brain baked right into your terminal. Chat, code, search, script—all with zero tab fatigue.

Don't have a robot? Try our newest Gemini Robotics on-Device VLA in simulation! Or become a trusted tester and tune and adapt the model yourself! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVMY...

I really think ACs can be completely replaced by LLMs. Finding the right reviewers, sending (reminder) emails, nudging them for discussions, summarizing reviews, etc... The only issue is that LLM calls are expensive, whereas human ACs work for free because we all volunteer. Sigh.

Hiring a postdoc to scale up and deploy RL-based planning onto some self-driving cars! We'll be building on arxiv.org/abs/2502.03349 and learn what the limits and challenges of RL planning are. Shoot me a message if interested and help spread the word please! Full posting to come in a bit.

I work in the best university in the world, less than 3 hours from my rural hometown, yet superstar students travel here from all over the world… if we keep treating them badly, will centers of excellence move elsewhere? "If my kids excel, will they move away?" jeffreybigham.com/blog/2025/wh...

👀This is impressive: Using an autonomous agent based on o3-mini and GPT-4.1, a team from Harvard, MIT & other institutions reproduced and updated an entire issue of Cochrane Reviews in two days… saving 12 person-years of work. The AI reviews captured more papers & were more accurate than humans.

Yes!! Originally, generative ML modeled a joint distribution, e.g., P(X,Y), whereas discriminative ML modeled a conditional distribution, e.g., P(Y|X). A famous paper by Ng and Jordan (papers.nips.cc/paper_files/...) compared naive Bayes (generative) to logistic regression (discriminative). 1/

🤖💡 Are LLMs really developing social behaviors—or just reproducing familiar patterns from training? In our new paper, @pettertornberg.com and I take a closer look at recent claims of emergent conventions in AI and offer a different perspective... 🧵

Weave household robot cleaning up. This is teleop, but it's a really cool first step towards a commercial product.

Humans' ability to invent their own games & goals is at the core of open-ended learning. Understanding and modeling computationally how they do it would be enlightening to understand better human cognition and build open-ended AI Great step in this direction in new paper by Guy Davidson et al.

TPUs are amazing.

TIL Canada has its own professional men's basketball league and Vancouver has a team.

Announcing AlphaEvolve, our new LLM coding agent that has - made new scientific discoveries - discovered algorithms that are now deployed at Google (in Gemini, Transformers, TPU hardware design & data centers) Blog: deepmind.google/discover/blo... White paper: storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...

The idea of "AI alignment" grew out of a community that thought you could solve morals like it was a CS problem set. Nice to see a more nuanced take.

[1/2] We've released the code for LegoGPT. Our autoregressive model generates physically stable and buildable designs from text prompts by integrating physics laws and assembly constraints into LLM training and inference. Code: github.com/AvaLovelace1... Website: avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/

Coach Pop, please write a book.

:thumbs_up: robhorning.substack.com/p/contentment

How do language models generalize from information they learn in-context vs. via finetuning? In arxiv.org/abs/2505.00661 we show that in-context learning can generalize more flexibly, illustrating key differences in the inductive biases of these modes of learning — and ways to improve finetuning. 1/

This is a fantastic oral history of the last 10 years of NLP and AI. www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...

Should I get an Amazon Astro?

Unpopular opinion perhaps, but it's not really a multiagent framework if you chain single agents in a linear pipeline.

DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication https://blog.google/technology/ai/dolphingemma/ [comments] [153 points]

The Computing Research Association (@cra-hq.bsky.social) has a new trustworthy AI research fellowship. Intended for folks 1-3 years out of their PhD and with interdisciplinary experience in social sciences. cra.org/cra-trustwor...

One of the coolest datasets around. Here are some posts about generating chess puzzles automatically via engine analysis: mbuffett.com/posts/genera... web.archive.org/web/20240312... And here is the actual Lichess implementation: github.com/ornicar/lich...

Here is the pareto on Model price vs Lmsys Elo.

📚 Still breaks my brain that you can one-shot build *and deploy* a book catalog app in <60sec with Gemini 2.5 Pro + Roo Code. The app uses Flash-Lite for image to text, though you could opt for a cheaper or local MMM instead. the future belongs to impatient builders 💪 🔗 github.com/dynamicwebpa...

The public colleges of New York, Texas, and California are great engines of social mobility in America. They move many born in the lower 20% of income to the top 20%. Our most elite universities move smaller numbers from the bottom 20% income to the top 1%. Paper: www.nber.org/system/files...

If you haven't used a frontier LLM in the past six months, Google's Gemini 2.5 is (temporarily?) free with its very solid Canvas implementation and is worth trying to see where things have gone in AI Turn on Canvas (its a little button) and ask it to make a game or interactive explainer

Recorded a recent "talk" / rant about RL fine-tuning of LLMs for a guest lecture in Stanford CSE234: youtube.com/watch?v=NTSY.... Covers some of my lab's recent work on personalized RLHF, as well as some mild Schmidhubering about my own early contributions to this space

We teamed up with 🤗Hugging Face to release a free notebook for fine-tuning Gemma 3 with GRPO Learn to: • Enable reasoning in Gemma 3 (1B) • Prepare/understand reward functions • Make GRPO work for tiny LLMs Notebook: colab.research.google.com/github/unslo... Details: huggingface.co/reasoning-co...

You're invited to the livestream of our Neurobiology in Changing Environments symposium! Listen to experts in the emerging field of nervous system function and resilience in a changing world, incl. @adc-neuroenv.bsky.social scientists. Register to get the link: alleninstitute.org/events/2025-...

Can we understand the mechanisms of a frontier AI model? 📝 Blog post: www.anthropic.com/research/tra... 🧪 "Biology" paper: transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu... ⚙️ Methods paper: transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu... Featuring basic multi-step reasoning, planning, introspection and more!

Reinforcement learning has led to amazing breakthroughs in reasoning (e.g., R1), but can it discover truly new behaviors not already present in the base model? A new paper with Zak Mhammedi and Dhruv Rohatgi: The Computational Role of the Base Model in Exploration arxiv.org/abs/2503.07453

What went wrong with the Alan Turing Institute? #HackerNews https://www.chalmermagne.com/p/how-not-to-build-an-ai-institute

TIL ai.dev

🥁Introducing Gemini 2.5, our most intelligent model with impressive capabilities in advanced reasoning and coding. Now integrating thinking capabilities, 2.5 Pro Experimental is our most performant Gemini model yet. It’s #1 on the LM Arena leaderboard. 🥇

blog.google/technology/g... 😆

I am hiring a PhD student in my lab in beautiful Edinburgh to keep investigating the neural mechanisms underlying flexible decision-making and individual variability. Email or DM me with any questions, or let's chat at the CoSyNe Main Meeting next week! Apply here: tinyurl.com/2cxr6nbg

I'm looking to hire a student researcher to work on an exciting project for 6 months in DeepMind Montreal. Requirements: - Full-time masters/PhD student 🧑🏾‍🎓 - Substantial expertise in multi-agent RL, ideally including publication(s) 🤖🤖 - Strong Python coding skills 🐍 Is this you? Get in touch!

Our team in London is hiring a research scientist! If you want to come work with a wonderful group of researchers on investigating the frontiers of autonomous open-ended agents that help humans be better at doing things we love, come have a look. Link in post below 👇

Deadline for applying to SICSS-Edinburgh is coming up soon! The summer school will run from May 26 – June 6. Apply now 👉 sicss.io/2025/edinbur... #SICSS2025 #SICSSEdinburgh

TL;DR: Natural behavior is learned through dopamine-mediated reinforcement! Tons more cool analyses by Jon Kasdin, Alison Duffy, Nathan Nadler, (me 😉), Adrienne Fairhall, @neurokim.bsky.social & Vikram Gadagkar in the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (7/7)