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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-...

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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...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Research Idea: Predict abstract properties of text in addition to next-word prediction as helpful auxiliary losses. Has this been tried? (1/n)

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Our UBC lab + collaborators had 3/3 papers accepted to #ICLR2025! 🚀🚀🚀🍻🍻🍻💥💥💥👊👊👊💡💡💡 Thanks @iclr-conf.bsky.social ACs, reviewers, and organizers. 🙏 See everyone in Singapore! 🇸🇬

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A copy of Tim's @rockt.ai has arrived. As I say on the back cover, I read it cover to cover and recommend it to those looking to ramp up on modern AI. Congrats and thanks Tim!

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Many comments from @geoffreyhinton & myself in this nice CBC article. Do you disagree with us? "The stakes are extremely high. If we get this right, we get tremendous upside. And if we get this wrong, we might be talking about the end of human civilization." www.cbc.ca/news/science...

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It's an honor that The AI Scientist is #1 on this list! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Congrats @chris-lu.bsky.social @cong-ml.bsky.social @RobertTLange @hardmaru.bsky.social @jfoerst.bsky.social

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I strongly believe the development of superintelligence is inevitable. I do not believe humanity has the ability to not invent it, given its economic, scientific, and military value. Many people say things like “we should not build AGI” without realizing that outcome is virtually impossible. 1/

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I greatly enjoyed this interview on MLStreetTalk It covers a wide range of topics I am interested in (open-endedness, AI-GAs, AI safety, etc.), includes my scientific origin story, and has great visuals edited in. Thanks Tim Scarfe! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw5W...

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

I am one of the PIs you could apply to work with via this excellent program. Please consider applying!

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

I guess AI and human scientists stand on the shoulders of the same giants.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

NO WAY! This is nearly EXACTLY one of the paper ideas The AI Scientist came up with! It was my favorite idea it generated, & made us very impressed with its creativity & good taste in an ML paper proposal. Cool to see humans agree! The humans def executed better though. x.com/BrantonDeMos...

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Dream finish to #NeurIPS2024: a dinner with Ted Chiang (one of my favorite writers), the excellent @alisongopnik.bsky.social, many amazing open-ended researchers (including @cedcolas) & other excellent people. Thanks to the tremendous IMOL organizers! Until next time! 🦎🧬🦖🦣

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Lots of interest in ADAS! Thanks everyone, and congrats Shengran Hu and @cong-ml.bsky.social! 🚀🚀🚀

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Jenny did a great job presenting OMNI-EPIC during the IMOL Oral. Congrats Jenny Zhang! arxiv.org/abs/2405.15568

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A huge congratulations to Shengran Hu and @cong-ml.bsky.social on ADAS winning an Outstanding Paper Award at the #NeurIPS2024 OWA workshop!! And nice jumps everyone!! 🦘 🦘 🦘

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

This is the newest work out of our lab. Please stop by if you're curious to learn about our latest, which I'm very excited about!

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Is Developing AGI a socially responsible goal? I enjoyed the thoughtful, passionate SoLaR panel on this critically important topic w/ @yoshuabengio.bsky.social, @mmitchell.bsky.social, & @jfoerst.bsky.social. It's clear everyone is both worried & cares deeply about making this go as well as possible

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

Great to catch up with @Yoshua_Bengio, Aaron Courville, and @hugo_larochelle at #NeurIPS2024, with lots of talk about AI Safety. Thanks @CIFAR_News for supporting our research!

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Come stop by our poster this afternoon and say hi!

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Agreed 💯

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Welcome to Vancouver everyone at #NeurIPS. Please come and say hello if you see me.

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