Have a nice evening, all!

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Sans exagérer: à l'échelle du globe LibGen est un maillon essentiel de l'accès libre au savoir. Les auteurs qui participent avec enthousiasme à le monter en épingle (et donc probablement à sa destruction) en espérant porter un coup à l'IA doivent bien comprendre les risques de ce coup de projecteur.

Winter has come; it has just started in more ways than the obvious. But they say it is the season of hope. Let's then! One more time, in the darkest of the nights: Celebrate, save Reason!

This is certainly not definitive proof of cognitive processing, but worth considering. "(MIT) published a study showing that people who used ChatGPT to write essays showed less activity in brain networks associated with cognitive processing while undertaking the exercise" tinyurl.com/ba6scy6b

There was a time when the Spirit of the University lived, an incarnation akin to what we called Academia not so long ago. The Spirit personified a self-governing guild of magistrorum et scholarium. It inhabited and gave meaning to a universe, 1/2

Winter has come; it has just started in more ways than the obvious. But they say it is the season of hope. Let's then! One more time, in the darkest of the nights: Celebrate, save Reason!

Some US companies had invested in Venezuela, but their investments were partially repaid, and they were given government bonds. And this was 50 years ago, and private companies, not the US government. www.nytimes.com/1976/01/02/a...

They are gorgeous! Enjoy! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is how I see it. cal-r.org/mondragon/S8...

There is another kind of AI research. Feel free to add yours: bsky.app/profile/emp1...

"Ultimately, learning requires friction. It requires the uncomfortable sensation of not knowing, the strain of recall, and the cognitive demand that tech companies are seeking to eliminate."

There was a time when the Spirit of the University lived, an incarnation akin to what we called Academia not so long ago. The Spirit personified a self-governing guild of magistrorum et scholarium. It inhabited and gave meaning to a universe, 1/2

anyone who believes and/or promotes the use of chatbots/ AI “companions” for therapy either chooses to ignore evidence that these bots can actually exacerbate mental health issues or is speaking from a place of ignorance dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

Color me shocked.

A machine-like world does not impose the idiosyncratic uniformity of a tyrant's whims. It is much worse. It enforces middle-point patterns, an averaged homogeneity as a by-product of a hegemonic statistical rule that dictates a dull, indifferent prototype. So it does to knowledge.

There is another kind of AI research. Feel free to add yours: bsky.app/profile/emp1...

DNNs are the dominant paradigm in AI, achieving remarkable performance. However, backpropagation, their primary supervised learning algorithm, presents significant challenges of feasibility and biological plausibility. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Exactly this! The hype is already tearing down the field 👇

If academics & researchers in AI (like myself) don’t want the coming AI winter to destroy our field, we need to be accountable for how we allowed another hype cycle on our watch. We have the expertise to stop it. We need to speak truth to power in our own institutions!

A machine-like world does not impose the idiosyncratic uniformity of a tyrant's whims. It is much worse. It enforces middle-point patterns, an averaged homogeneity as a by-product of a hegemonic statistical rule that dictates a dull, indifferent prototype. So it does to knowledge.

The number 1 movie when you were ten years old will define your 2026

Full paper here: zenodo.org/records/1706...

“My most daring idea is to just refuse.” Rather than build the AI future for the wealthy and powerful so they can continue to dehumanize everyone else, just refuse, just say no. Thank you @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

The formalism allowed us to derive limitations within the SBDRL framework. We then used category theory to generalise core SBDRL concepts, such as equivariance and disentanglement, to a broader range of scenarios, including those involving irreversible actions and more intricate action algebras.

It's like sending a robot to the gym to work out for you

How much does it cost to raise a quack, including the cost of the obligatory ivy education, and watching them fail up in this country?

I find it amusing that students think becoming an AI (artificial INTELLIGENCE) expert requires studying mathematics but not studying psychology. Thinking seems a matter of the past. So long, humanity!

An already severely lacking system is now facing debacle. Perhaps it would be easier to understand thus way: you are biting the hand that feeds you. Stop. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨Job Alert plz RT! Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition! We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals Open-rank apply.interfolio.com/178146

"automated science community" is an oxymoron Science cannot be automated youtu.be/2bdK_zu1Ikw

We built on Higgins et al. (2018) symmetry-based disentangled representation learning (SBDRL) framework and introduced a mathematical framework to incorporate world transformation relationships arising from an agent's actions into the agent’s representation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For a long time, my season's wishes have been "Celebrate Reason!". I am no longer sure there is room for such celebration. Perhaps it would be best to say "Save Reason!" instead.

UK back to Erasmus program - that’s wonderful news! 🎉👇 #Education #EU #Erasmus

This is AI in a perfect nutshell - thinking that the important thing about a research study is having the right number of responses. Outcome over process Set it all on fire right now

An already severely lacking system is now facing debacle. Perhaps it would be easier to understand thus way: you are biting the hand that feeds you. Stop. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Worrisome: More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Indeed thinking something into existence changes you. Going through the pains of creation is the reward, not its output. Imagine wanting to skip the process to obtain the outcome. Reframing one of the most beautiful, consequential parts of human existence into a bureaucratic hurdle to be eliminated.

Absolutely, but they do something else, they promote the lack of reasoning, ponderation and analysis. They automate and standardise thinking. "LLMs didn’t create the dysfunction in scientific publishing; they inherited it, intensified it, made it run faster" open.substack.com/pub/artifici...

"But, as we should all know by now, systems can persist in dysfunction indefinitely, and absurdity is not self-correcting." Indeed. Doubling down on absurdity, hoping at some point we won't be able to ignore it, is hanging everything on an assumption that doesn't necessarily hold.

“We are not weak, we are not small.” Big deal from Merz. I’ve long thought weaning Europe off its dependency on US monopoly tech requires member states to drive it - especially but not only 🇩🇪 and 🇫🇷. Brussels should follow, but sadly won’t lead, the seismic shift required. Capitals are key.

I am not based in NL. Still, this is worth sharing for all to read and think.

Your regular reminder that one of the primary use-cases for Generative AI is corpse shagging. This “interview” is with a person who’s been dead for 5 years. They turned her into a chatbot.

“El laïcisme no és només un principi que limita la interferència religiosa en la política, sinó també una garantia que l’estat garanteix la igualtat per a tots els seus ciutadans i purifica la llei de la discriminació basada en la fe i la moral.“

This world is trully fucked up. 🤨 What about demonstrating basic human decency, reasoning skills, empathy, thoughtfulness, ... ? "Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students demonstrate basic competency in artificial intelligence" " www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

When views are counterposed, and the adoption of one over the other is likely to have profound and serious consequences, proponents often adopt different positions: radical or negotiable. Both are necessary.

This 👇🏼

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