Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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Running experiments @OpenAI + @ml-collective.bsky.social Prev: Windscape AI, Uber AI Labs founding team, adviser Recursion Pharma, Cornell, Montreal, Caltech 🌻
Starting in 1 hour: Joshua Batson presents Anthropic's "Biology of a Large Language Model" work at the DLCT reading group. Paper: transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu... Come for the chain of thought, stay for the rabbits and habbits. Zoom info below 👇
Next MLC Research Jam is tomorrow; sharing two ideas myself to mix things up :)
ML Collective@ml-collective.bsky.social · last yr.Next Research Jam is in 14 hours, tomorrow morning at 8am PT. Stop by this virtual lab meeting to hear research ideas and updates on projects in progress! Zoom info at mlcollective.org/events/resea...
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ML Collective@ml-collective.bsky.social · last yr.This week at Deep Learning: Classics and Trends we're kicking off a new five part mini-series on LLM Interpretability. Up first: Subhash Kantamneni will show how LLMs represent numbers on a helix and use this representation to add! Join Friday at 10am PT, zoom/etc here: mlcollective.org/dlct/
I am sitting here watching my HF smolagent slowly reason about and click on Captcha squares one a time 🙈. Is this general AI?
Tomorrow at 10am PT we'll have our next MLC OpenClubHouse, our 25th 🎉! Stop by to hang out, catch up with friends, and chat about ML or anything else. We'll meet in the MLC Discord #openclubhouse channel: discord.gg/6Za9MBr4?eve...
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If you're at #ICLR2025, stop by the ML Collective Picnic Lunch on Monday at 12:30, graciously hosted by Alex Bezzubov! All welcome, bring your own lunch and meet new research friends and collaborators. 🥰 lu.ma/ioghynfh
ML Collective open picnic lunch at ICLR 2025 · Luma
ML Collective open picnic lunch at ICLR 2025 It's been a conference or few since our last in-person lunch, so let's get together and eat! Everyone welcome, no…
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Google's use of reCAPTCHA to collect juicy data to target their ads has cost us 819 million frustrating hours. With the average person living to 72, this is 1,298 entire human lives wasted, from birth to death, clicking on little squares. Come on. We can do better. boingboing.net/2025/02/07/r...
reCAPTCHA: 819 million hours of wasted human time and billions of dollars in Google profits
New research reveals Google's reCAPTCHA system primarily serves as a tracking tool, generating billions in revenue while offering minimal protection against bots.
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Rajat Modi presenting his work right now on getting Glom to work, poster #6304. Asynchronous Perception Machine for Efficient Test Time Training Rajat Modi · Yogesh Rawat West Ballroom A-D #6304
If you're at #NeurIPS and want to meet new research friends, @ml-collective.bsky.social is having a picnic lunch on Thursday. All are welcome! Ok but also we have no budget so it's BYOLunch 😅 lu.ma/4xx0hfq7
ML Collective open picnic lunch at NeurIPS 2024 · Luma
ML Collective open picnic lunch at NeurIPS 2024 It's been a conference or few since our last in-person lunch, so let's get together and eat! Everyone welcome,…
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