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Associate Professor of Natural Language Processing & Explainable AI, University of Amsterdam, ILLC
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Deadlines for PhD and Postdoc vacancies coming up: applications open until Monday June 2!

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This Friday at 3pm, Amsterdam's Computational Linguistics Seminar and the CLClab will host Melanie Mitchell, for a special edition of the Amsterdam Lectures in AI and Society. She will speak about "AI's Challenge of Understanding the World". Zoom link/ register: clclab.netlify.app/2025/05/07/a...

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TIL that professor Kunihiko Fukushima, inventor of the neocognitron, is still an active researcher in his late 90s. The neocognitron is a convolutional neutral network (CNN); CNNs is turn were the model family with which deep learning revolution in Artificial Intelligence started. A living legend!

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

✨New paper ✨ Introducing 🌍MultiBLiMP 1.0: A Massively Multilingual Benchmark of Minimal Pairs for Subject-Verb Agreement, covering 101 languages! We present over 125,000 minimal pairs and evaluate 17 LLMs, finding that support is still lacking for many languages. 🧵⬇️

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

Seems like a crazy way to spend these resources. I'm all for helping American scholars move to Europe, but those that already have an ERC grant waiting for them are pretty well off. The extra 1M€ would be better used to help *other* scholars, and not to make them dependent on those lucky colleagues.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Encouraging to see 5000+ protesters at our local Amsterdam protests against the budget cuts in higher education in the NL! In this time of geopolitical tensions, changing climate, democratic backsliding, & tech revolutions, governments should *invest* in knowledge & the future of the next generation

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

📢 CALL FOR SATELLITE EVENT PROPOSALS: CCN 2025 @ University of Amsterdam Submit your workshop, tutorial or special session proposal for Aug 11, 2025 to complement the main CCN conference program. Deadline: April 10, 2025 Details in thread 👇 #CCN2025 #CogNeuro

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Focus on a different child each time you watch 😂 📽️SportsCenter

submitted 97 days ago • 107 comments

Come present your #NLP work in Leuven!

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Let's not polarize unnecessarily. Exploding is harsh; shearing away in a fireball would be fine too.

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments

In the movies, maniacal villains keep media and police busy by setting buildings on fire & sadistically threatening innocent people, while, in fact, robbing the bank Now that we have a maniacal villain setting international relations on fire & making sadistic threats, it's time to connect the dots

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

Cognitive psych is often traced back to the 1950s. Psychology is often traced to Wundt's lab in 1879. Textbooks speak of "proto-psychologists" like Fechner & Helmholtz in the 1800s... Westerners all. Have you heard about Ibn al-Haytham, whose work predated them by 100s of years? 1/4

submitted 126 days ago • 9 comments

Distillation explained, cat edition (via reddit)

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

Someone at OpenAI should build aan irony detection algorithm For internal use 🙉

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent thread (although I think it puts a little too much weight on just one model, deepseek's R1; there were also before last week excellent reasons not to get ahead of ourselves in the race to scale up).

submitted 130 days ago • 1 comment

Today is Martin Luther King day in the US. Makes me think back of a shop owner in Queens, who cheerfully sold me this calendar of 1998 (useful again in 2026!), the first time I visited NYC. Incredible to realise that the civil rights movement was as long ago then, as the nineties are for us now.

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Can Large Language Models THINK and UNDERSTAND? The answer from cognitive science is, of course, lolwut YES! The more interesting question is CAN TOASTERS LOVE? Intriguingly, the answer is ALSO YES! And they love YOU

submitted 138 days ago • 4 comments

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

submitted 154 days ago • 205 comments

Saddened to learn about the passing of Felix Hill, a much respected colleague at DeepMind. www.paperlesspost.com/go/7BbrzXXhb... He has himself written about the anxieties that come with working in AI -- hopefully we can take it as a cue to take better care of eachother! medium.com/@felixhill/2...

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