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This is your health on MAGA.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Why did Grok suddenly start talking about “white genocide in South Africa” even if asked about baseball or cute dogs? Because someone at Musk’s xAi deliberately did this, and we only found out because they were clumsy. My piece on the real dangers of AI. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

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...

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

Hey people who are EU citizens, please sign this petition to ban conversion therapy EU wide. It's a practice that's very harmful towards LGBTQ+ people. It's already banned in some countries but we need a EU wide ban! eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#... #europe #lgbtq #germany

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

In September, 2024, physicians working with AI did better at the Healthbench doctor benchmark than either AI or physicians alone. With the release of o3 and GPT-4.1, AI answers are no longer improved on by physicians Error rates appear to be dropping for newer AI models. openai.com/index/health...

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Things are bad enough xkcd has introduced politics and also red text

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Fear has a way of being contagious. But courage is also contagious.

submitted 69 days ago • 4004 comments

@kevinroose.com @caseynewton.bsky.social listening to your podcast about government tech use. Efforts in that direction are being undermined too:

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

i find information seeking to be one of the most exciting opportunities and at the same time one of the most challenging problems for "agentic" AI. Paper finder is an initial exploration of this. Try it out, use it daily, make it fail, we need to see some challenging queries!

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

submitted 207 days ago • 97 comments

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

submitted 92 days ago • 753 comments

I taught a grad course on AI Agents at UCSD CSE this past quarter. All lecture slides, homeworks & course projects are now open sourced! I provide a grounding going from Classical Planning & Simulations -> RL Control -> LLMs and how to put it all together pearls-lab.github.io/ai-agents-co...

submitted 103 days ago • 3 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 105 days ago • 2059 comments

AI can now compete with the most elite human programmers in competitive coding o3 won gold in the International Olympiad in Informatics beating a specialized version of o1 designed for the contest General-purpose reasoning done by big LLMs now beats hand-crafted strategies arxiv.org/abs/2502.06807

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

Very good (technical) explainer answering "How has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture?". Aimed at readers already familiar with Transformers. epoch.ai/gradient-upd...

submitted 136 days ago • 6 comments

Happy New Year! To kick off the year, I've finally been able to format and upload the draft of my AI Research Highlights of 2024 article. It covers a variety of topics, from mixture-of-experts models to new LLM scaling laws for precision:

submitted 165 days ago • 2 comments

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

submitted 166 days ago • 283 comments

Cecilia Sala, a prominent Italian journalist, was arrested in Iran and jailed in the country’s infamous Evin prison after spending days reporting in Tehran, Italian officials said. The reason for the arrest has not been made public.

submitted 170 days ago • 21 comments

it's official — 1,000,000 people have joined Bluesky in just the last day!!! welcome and thank you for being here 🥳

submitted 212 days ago • 2341 comments