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In this collection of perspectives, @stanfordhai.bsky.social senior fellows offer a multidisciplinary discussion of what #DeepSeek means for AI and society at large. hai.stanford.edu/news/how-dis... @chrmanning.bsky.social @jlanday.bsky.social @yejinchoinka.bsky.social @amyzegart.bsky.social

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How can it be that the Apple iOS data detector pop-up gives you options to call or copy but not text? We’re not in the twentieth century any more. The twenty-first century is almost a quarter done.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 20 days ago • 270 comments

Want to make a browser agent for any domain like banking or healthcare? We propose methods for training LLMs with open-ended, unsupervised interaction on live websites: ✅ OSS SoTA on WebVoyager ✅ world's smallest high-performing web-agent Try it here: nnetnav.dev

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Maybe vilifying China & Chinese people, and increasing visa hassles & investigations aren’t smart moves for keeping the US lead in AI—given the number of engineers trained in China vs US? “Many Chinese students are not that interested in full-time jobs in the US.” restofworld.org/2025/china-a...

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

I went to a Silicon Valley AI retreat in 2019. Turned out it was run by EA and Longtermists before I knew what those things were. One activity was to envision future scenarios involving AI. I told a story about the dangers of regulatory capture. I was shunned for the rest of the event.

submitted 93 days ago • 5 comments

“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” A good historical perspective: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/o...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Got my first spam message on @signal.org I guess that’s evidence that the platform is growing?

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

New developments on our 'LLMs can do metalinguistics' paper! We created sentences and had GPT3.5, 4, o1 and Llama 3 analyze them as a linguist would. We had 3 graduate students in linguistics evaluate how good linguists LLMs really are.

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

I feel like I can see America changing before my eyes* “The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change.” – Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower *Okay, maybe this feeling was exaggerated this morning by the Navy vs. Oklahoma Armed Forces Bowl game being on in the barbershop, but still …

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Six months ago someone put a for-loop around GPT-4o and got 50% on the ARC-AGI test set and 72% on a held-out training set redwoodresearch.substack.com/p/getting-50... Just sample 8000 times with beam search. o3 is probably a more principled search technique...

submitted 68 days ago • 4 comments

Just got back from Vancouver and I was amazed at how their downtown is full of cool little small businesses. The secret is … socialism? The government takes over leases of long-vacant spaces and sublets small subdivisions to locally-owned businesses and nonprofits. www.postalley.org/2020/07/20/h...

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

This is so far our best call for papers! We completely re-thought what a CFP is, and.... mostly copied last year's while surgically increasing some numbers

submitted 72 days ago • 3 comments

At #NeurIPS2024, the keynote speaker perpetuated explicit racist stereotypes against Chinese students. Generalizations against a community subject to discrimination, even as an “example”, further provokes discrimination. Below, video of an audience member’s perfect response.

submitted 75 days ago • 4 comments

Come visit our poster "MoEUT: Mixture-of-Experts Universal Transformers" on Friday at 4:30 in East Exhibit Hall A-C #1907 on #NeurIPS2024. With Kazuki Irie, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Christopher Potts and @chrmanning.bsky.social.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks to @alexpasternak.bsky.social and @fastcompany.com for this lovely interview and review of The AI Mirror, part of their AI20 (with @abeba.bsky.social, @sashamtl.bsky.social + others)

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely. I worry about an entire generation that can’t go from a blank page to a coherent, logical, articulate argument on their own. This process is not just writing: it is thinking. If we cede all our writing to AI we cede also our very ability to think.

submitted 77 days ago • 8 comments

20+ years late, I see Gosse Bouma wrote a lovely review of Avery Andrews and my Complex Predicates and Information Spreading in LFG in Studies in Language: “this book makes a valuable contribution to the theory of LFG and feature-based theories of grammar” www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

The extraordinary recent takeover of ML/AI by #NLP is well-known but insufficiently reflected on. Look at the @neuripsconf.bsky.social tutorials in 2024! neurips.cc/virtual/2024... 14 tutorials; 6 have "LLM" in the title; 4 more cover foundation models, with large NLP coverage. That's > 70% 😲

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Natural Language Processing—artificial intelligence that uses human language—has been on a roll lately. You’ve probably noticed! So the Stanford NLP Group has been growing, and diversifying into lots of new topics, including agents, language model programs, and socially aware #NLP. nlp.stanford.edu

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments

The incoming US administration will probably attack all forms of responsible AI research. Some people will think that their approach won't come under attack, because they see a big gap between what they do and what others do. This gap is very likely to be a mirage. /1

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

America has long been a magnet for talent from around the world, powering an amazing innovation ecosystem. But we're working hard to destroy that advantage. 🤷‍♂️

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

I had the incredible good fortune to be part of the team that created #GivingTuesday in 2012. Tomorrow, December 3, is #GivingTuesday, a day for the simple and uncomplicated practice of generosity.

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

I would put this even more strongly: open source AI is probably our only realistic chance to avoid a terrifying increase in concentration of power. I do not want to live in a world where the people with all the money also have all the intellectual power.

submitted 90 days ago • 24 comments

I think we saw this in the AI/ML sphere, not just in politics …

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

ACL syntax track reviewers >> almost any other conference. These folks care about their sub-field and i learn something new every time!

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

The authors of ColPali trained a retrieval model based on SmolVLM 🤠 TLDR; - ColSmolVLM performs better than ColPali and DSE-Qwen2 on all English tasks - ColSmolVLM is more memory efficient than ColQwen2 💗 Find the model here huggingface.co/vidore/colsm...

submitted 92 days ago • 4 comments

I take no joy in admitting that the new Claude really does produce conversational outputs I would call insightful if a person said them

submitted 93 days ago • 8 comments

🚨 NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight Did you know we lack standards for AI benchmarks, despite their role in tracking progress, comparing models, and shaping policy? 🤯 Enter BetterBench–our framework with 46 criteria to assess benchmark quality: betterbench.stanford.edu 1/x

submitted 94 days ago • 5 comments

New York and California ought to pass some voting reforms that include both rapid counting on par with Florida’s, but also compulsory voting. @kjephd.bsky.social had already persuaded me of the importance of the latter. The depressed blue state turnout this time around just highlighted it again.

submitted 95 days ago • 16 comments

📄👀: Consonant lengthening marks the beginning of words across a diverse sample of languages www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A great list in general, but cuffed to be first! Thx, @jacobeisenstein.bsky.social !

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

easy first #booksky #nlp

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

By demand, I've created the final starter pack in my ML Personality Starter Pack Series. I'm uncertain who belongs in this starter pack and so if you think you better fit in the Grumpy ML or Unreasonably Upbeat ML starter packs, let me know. (Self) nominations welcome go.bsky.app/5Suyk58

submitted 97 days ago • 43 comments

#EMNLP2024 was a fun time to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones! Reflecting on the conference program and in-person discussions, I believe we're seeing the "Google Moment" to #IR research play out in #NLProc. 1/n

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

It's a bit strange to me how passively users are discussed and modeled in misinformation research. As in, yes, there are various contexts under which an information ecosystem is imposed upon you but, in most cases, people make pretty conscious choices on what to consume & how..

submitted 98 days ago • 9 comments

Stanford RegLab is hiring predoctoral Research Fellows! The RegLab has been a wonderful place for work spanning from AI ML/NLP/policy to real world impact, successfully working with government organizations. It’s a place to apply technical skills to new areas. www.linkedin.com/posts/reglab...

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

How do LLMs learn to reason from data? Are they ~retrieving the answers from parametric knowledge🦜? In our new preprint, we look at the pretraining data and find evidence against this: Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives LLM reasoning ⚙️🔢 🧵⬇️

submitted 99 days ago • 38 comments

I want to shout ‘would reality please be less predictable in its bullshit??’ but a genie could make that wish really bite me in the ass

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

The #TREC2024 conference just started. Turns out that BM25 is turning 30 🥳 #TREC #TREC24

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