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Is there a cancer at the heart of modern AI, lurking just beneath the surface of its dazzling performance? Our research suggests maybe, but also shows elegant solutions are possible (though how to get them at scale remains a mystery). Check out the eye-opening, riveting paper below!

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Why do we tolerate loud motorcycles? I can't walk around with a crazy loud speaker, yet we allow people to have (and companies to sell) insanely loud machines that torture everyone else. They can be made quiet or silent...we should start heavily taxing and fining noise polluting machines.

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Very cool work! Fun to see an algorithm inspired by MAP-Elites help advance numerous open problems in math, computer science, AND improve Google's production infrastructure (data centers, TPU design, and AI training)! (Paraphrasing their paper and tweet).

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I greatly enjoyed “The Spectrum of AI Risks” panel at the Singapore Conference on AI. Thanks @teganmaharaj.bsky.social for great moderating, Max Tegmark for the invitation, and the organizers and other panelists for a great event! PS. Do I really have sad resting panel face? 😐

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I'm giving a talk at 11:30 today in the #ICLR World Models workshop. "Open-ended Agent Learning in the Era of Foundation Models and Foundation World Models." Drop by if you are interested! sites.google.com/view/worldmo...

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Tom @rockt.ai did a great job in his #ICLR2025 keynote on open-endedness of explaining the ideas we are all so passionate about. A huge thanks for the kind words and for featuring our work, including Jenny Zhang's OMNI. cc @kennethstanley.bsky.social @joelbot3000.bsky.social

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Very excited for this keynote by @_rockt! Awesome to see open-endedness go from a niche (😉) area to a keynote at #ICLR ! 🌱🌿🌳🌲🍀🌍✨ 📈 🧬🧪 cc @joelbot3000.bsky.social @kennethstanley.bsky.social

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Since the dawn of my career I've heard scientists joke after every AI advance “Now we just need to get AI to write the paper. Now The AI Scientist does all the research AND writes the paper! Wild times! 🧪🔬👩‍🔬🤖

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Introducing The AI Scientist-v2, which produced the 1st fully AI-generated paper to pass peer review at a workshop level (at #ICLR2025) ‼️ Tech Report: pub.sakana.ai/ai-scientist... GitHub: github.com/SakanaAI/AI-... This work is a proud collaboration between Sakana AI, UBC, and Oxford University.

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Collecting a diamond in #Minecraft is “a very hard task”, says Dr. Jeff Clune (@jeffclune.com) of @cs.ubc.ca, who was part of a team that trained a program to find diamonds using videos of human play2. “This represents a major step forward for the field.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Trump is the greatest gift to China in history.

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Awesome work. Great to see Dreamer in Nature! Congrats Danijar Hafner et al. Nature news article on it with quotes from yours truly. Below is the quote I provided that did not make it into the article. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

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When whites and minorities drive at identical speeds (according to objectively measured data from Lyft) Florida police are 24-33% more likely to issue speeding citations to minority drivers and charge them 23-34% greater fines. These are not small effects!

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It is an honor to receive a Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship. Thank you to everyone involved!

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What a remarkable milestone in history! Since at least 2010 I heard the joke amongst AI scientists "Now if only we could get AI to write the paper." Fast forward 14 years and it's possible! Exciting times! 🧪 🧫 🔬 🚀 📈

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Your chance to work with one of the all time great minds in science! 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

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Honored to serve on the Government of Canada's Safe & Secure AI Advisory Group to keep it "well informed on risks associated with AI systems" w/ AI luminaries, e.g. @yoshuabengio.bsky.social Joelle Pineau, Elissa Strome, @davidduvenaud.bsky.social & many others ised-isde.canada.ca/site/advisor...

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My guest lecturing for the Stanford CS course Self-Improving AI Agents. The talk is online, titled "Open-ended Agent Learning in the Era of Foundation Models" (w/ more emphasis on the AI Scientist and ADAS than prior versions). Thanks profs @Azaliamirh & @achowdhery! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZBu...

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It was an honor to be on Quirks and Quarks (the CBC science show) with @cong-ml.bsky.social talking about The AI Scientist and the impact of AI on science. Science is being transformed by the AI revolution cbc.ca/listen/live-...

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Introducing Automated Capability Discovery! ACD automatically identifies surprising new capabilities and failure modes in foundation models, via "self-exploration" (models exploring their own abilities). Led by @cong-ml.bsky.social & @shengranhu.bsky.social 🔬🤖🧠🔎 [1/9]

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🤔 What if AI could explain its thought process before taking action? Our latest ANDERS blog covers Vector Researchers @jeffclune.com & @shengranhu.bsky.social’s wrk on "thought cloning" - teaching AI to express its reasoning process in language we can understand vectorinstitute.ai/thought-clon...

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Nice to see international collaborations of this scale on AI safety! Also nice that our work (four papers) contributed to the discussion (full disclosure: that's both on safety, but also on creating powerful general agents, including mentions of The AI Scientist and SIMA). tldr; it's complicated

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Operator is the descendant of VPT (work our team did at OpenAI on learning to use a mouse+keyboard to perform long-horizon tasks (demonstrated in Minecraft). As we wrote in that blog post, VPT is "a step towards general computer-using agents." Released ~2.5 years later. openai.com/index/introd...

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