Michael Biehl

@michaelbiehl.bsky.social

Physicist by training and by heart, now machine learner in Groningen / NL. Visit www.cs.rug.nl/~biehl for more information, publications, etc. The Shallow and the Deep (open access lecture notes): https://books.ugp.rug.nl/index.php/ugp/catalog/book/130

Ich bin schon so gespannt, wie man uns dann nach dem AI-Crash erklärt, dass die großen AI-Konzerne zwar jetzt alle zahlungsunfähig sind, aber AI halt nun mal zur unverzichtbaren Infrastruktur geworden ist, weshalb ein Bailout mit Steuergeld unvermeidlich ist.

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen: Der Irankrieg hat nicht „die Energiepreise“ erhöht, sondern die für Öl und Gas. Es werden nicht „die Autofahrer entlastet“, es werden Kosten für den Teil der Bevölkerung reduziert, der einen Verbrenner fährt. Auf Kosten aller anderen.

Es ist an der Zeit, dass die Homöopathie nun endlich raus fliegt aus der Erstattung der gesetzlichen Krankenkassen. Weder als Regelleistung für Kinder noch als freiwillige Satzungsleistung oder als Selektivvertrag darf es einen Platz in einem auf dem Solidaritätsprinzip beruhenden System haben!

The perspective paper Aligning generalization between humans and machines emerged from the excellent Dagstuhl Seminar “Generalization by People and Machines”, which took place in May 2024. A complementary "view only" version is provided by Nature Machine Intelligence: rdcu.be/eH1AJ

Aligning generalization between humans and machines

Nature Machine Intelligence - Ilievski et al. examine differences and similarities in the various ways human and AI systems generalize. The insights are important for effectively supporting...

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Seriously. Avoid the term "AI" as much as you can. Don't fall for the hype and don't fuel it. Here's a brief rant that I presented at the Mittweida Workshop on Computational Intelligence 2025 (presentation slightly messed up by slideshare and adds the stupid ads) www.slideshare.net/slideshow/it...

It AI'nt what you think - let's drop the term

A rant, arguing that we should avoid the term "AI" in acadamia and everywhere else. - View online for free

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Hermite polynomials facilitating on-line learning analysis of layered neural networks with arbitrary activation function by O. Citton, F. Richert , M. Biehl, and M. Straat Neurocomputing Volume 655, 28 November 2025, 131328 Published version available online www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hermite polynomials facilitating on-line learning analysis of layered neural networks with arbitrary activation function

Following the standard statistical mechanics methods we analyze the training by online stochastic gradient descent of two-layer neural networks in a s…

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Dear Machine Learners. I am very worried about the current #AI #hype: once people realize how un-intelligent, costly, and useless LLMs are and how questionable #genAI is, they will probably project onto serious #ML and discredit all our work. Any idea how to prevent being thrown into the same pot?

1. I study how science works as a collective endeavor to make sense of the physical world. I also study how misinformation about science spreads and affects society. There are fewer examples more poignant than a Minnesota bill that would criminalize mRNA vaccines as weapons of mass destruction.

Chris Ingraham@cingraham.bsky.social · last yr.

This morning Minnesota Republicans introduced a bill banning mRNA vaccines and labeling them "weapons of mass destruction." It would make manufacturing, possessing or administering them a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison. www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.p...

Mr. Trump, this statute at the National Museum of African American History and Culture does not "undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States". It does not "fosters a sense of national shame." It does not "advance a corrosive ideology." It is literally what might redeem the USA.

Statue of Tommie Smith and Juan Carlos on the podium at the 1968 Olympic Games, gloved fists raise in silent protest.