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I study things that think. Neuroscience professor at UCSF. Foundations of Cognition Lab. www.focolab.org. medium.com/@saulkato
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kleptokakistocracy

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Data contamination (validation data leaking into training data) is a critical problem for the whole approach of (static) performance benchmarks to test large AI models. This issue needs to be surfaced more. This article for example, completely neglects it. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Prediction: AI will ultimately drive the renaissance of the fourth estate, the press, as we seek authoritative sources of information and trusted interpretation.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

It has become impossible to distinguish real newspaper headlines from Onion headlines. We need a name for this era

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Our paper on WormID is out. Moral: building a multi-lab data corpus boosts generalization and performance of ML labeling algorithms. We extended the Neurodata Without Borders format to support this. Resource at wormid.org. www.focolab.org/post/our-pap...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

For our inaugural post on bsky, we're happy to share our preprint on tardigrades as a new model organism for neuroscience. Exciting times for these little critters! www.focolab.org/post/our-pre...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment