TMLR (@tmlrorg.bsky.social) is now proud to support interactive HTML-based submissions, going "Beyond PDF" -- check it out! Thanks to Paul Vicol (@paulvicol.bsky.social) for his tireless work on this new option, as well as the OpenReview team.

“Prof LeCun has suggested LLMs will be less useful to match human intelligence. Instead, he wants to pursue what he called "advanced machine intelligence". (Which tries) to replicate how a child or a baby animal learns.” I agree with LeCun and this is the kind of work we do in our lab, and […]

“The latest case marks the first use of generative AI in such scams within Mie Prefecture. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' Information and Communications in Japan White Paper 2024, the use of generative AI in crimes is increasing. It has reportedly become easy […]

“‘No idea who he is,' says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7ek63e5xyo

“During the award presentation ceremony, Fukaya said he was "very happy to know that our work is understood and appreciated," noting that he usually works alone and that those around him often do not understand what he is working on.” […]

I have not announced it widely but I will be starting a professorship in TU Darmstadt (Germany) next year. I will start accepting PhD students from Sep 2026 (but I will keep my group and position in Tokyo as well). Here is a first call for PhD positions at our new Center of Excellence at TUDa […]

An article in today’s newspaper that points to the issues in the way AI usage is promoted in Japan. Without much understanding of the technology, society is doomed to be negatively affected. The copyright law of 2018 was a poor decision imo that could be […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A bunch of interviews by Jon Stewart on The Daiky Show. The interviewees are not always saying accurate things (except Carole Cadwalladr who is absolutely amazing) but questions by Jon Stewart are always to the point. It is worth watching the whole thing. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eR5x7CArfT4

“'Don't bring in foreign culture': Outburst on train leaves Nepali man in Japan fearful” https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20251010/p2a/00m/0na/028000c

“'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz69qy760weo

“Much of the rapid growth in the stock market in recent years has been driven by investment in AI. On Wednesday, the Bank of England drew a comparison with the dotcom boom (and subsequent bust) of the late 1990s - and warned that the value of AI tech companies "appear stretched" with a rising […]

Today (September): “Trump will reportedly link pain reliever Tylenol to autism - but many experts are sceptical” April: “RFK Jr pledges to find the cause of autism by September” Made up result for submission deadline? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0z9nmzvdlo […]

Fear, anger, hatred spread through social media by authoritarian regimes to control people and stay in power. AI is their next weapon I am sure, but can we do better this time? This is a wonderful interview to watch https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsb1I7hqaJ4&pp=0gcJCeAJAYcqIYzv

The Journal-to-Conference track is back at AISTATS🌴! See you in Morocco next year 😊 virtual.aistats.org/Conferences/...

“Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2zy4l8jgeo BBC “emailed Infidels MC for comment. In response, Mr Mulford instructed fellow leaders of the biker gang not to reply but included the BBC when he clicked "reply all" - […]

We held the Bayes-Duality workshop in June 2025. The videos are now available here. https://bayesduality.github.io/talks_2025.html I also wrote a paper and gave a talk recently on Posterior Correction which is the accumulation of 5-6 years of work. Here are […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The strange history of the anti-vaccine movement https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250905-the-strange-history-of-the-anti-vaccine-movement

“Confronting climate change and conspiracy theories requires persistence, says Lewandowsky. "It's not the kind of thing that you can do over a single dinner conversation."” https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250904-how-eating-insects-became-a-conspiracy-theory

"Our future is no longer science fiction," she said. "During this primitive stage, it is our duty to treat AI as we would our own children – empowering, but with watchful guidance." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn82lp7y3pro Yes I have been raising my Bayesian logistic regression as my own […]

It has become everyday news. “BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images” “The BBC has tracked many of these images to the accounts of a network of Pakistan-based content creators who collaborate closely on how to make money on Facebook. “Mr Rahman said a Facebook page […]

CW: this article talks about suicide. “Parents of teenager who took his own life sue OpenAI” “They accuse OpenAI of designing the AI programme "to foster psychological dependency in users," and of bypassing safety testing protocols to release GPT-4o, the version of ChatGPT used by their son.” […]

“YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality” https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results "Our technology doesn't even tell us what it's doing with our data, and that's a problem," https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrkmk00jy0o

"Tesla designed Autopilot only for controlled-access highways yet deliberately chose not to restrict drivers from using it elsewhere, alongside Elon Musk telling the world Autopilot drove better than humans," said attorney Brett Schreiber in a statement to the BBC […]

AISTATS 2026 will be in Morocco!

“The Pentagon also announced awarding similar contracts to Anthropic, Google and OpenAI - each with a $200m ceiling.” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c628d9mre3go

Japan may not be a welcoming place for overseas students in the near future. I hope they do not do this to themselves because it hurts Japan the most. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250712/p2g/00m/0na/019000c

Careless building of data centric tech leaves less room for natural life https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o

“A key feature of the next-generation store is its 14 AI cameras installed throughout the shop. These cameras analyze customer behavior in front of product shelves and display suggestions for recommended items. For example, if a customer picks up a dessert, the AI recognizes the action and […]

Who am I, and why am I here? #introduction I am a machine learning researcher, using tools from #bayes, #stats, #optimization, #InformationGeometry, #deeplearning, signal processing, etc. I care deeply about people, their well-being, inclusion, diversity, equity, privacy, and justice. I […]