Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
Lincoln Michel
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🌱 My fantastic blue-purple Delphinium is rapidly blooming, and today this pretty yellow butterfly was chilling on it, and it was glorious. I just thought you all should know.
My mom informs me that this is a Tiger Swallowtail. Actually, she asked: "Tiger Swallowtail, yes?" I love that she thinks I would randomly know that. And I love that she does know.
🪶 If you’re in Europe and have ice, consider putting some out in bowls/bird baths.
New family of generative DNA language models trained on 1T 6-mer DNA tokens in long genomic contexts. Open weights, open source, open training data...
h/t @mmitchell.bsky.social
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🪶 www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8s8cepR/
So good!
Also appreciate the eagle/red-tailed hawk call-out: “You’ve been lied to!”
www.newscientist.com/article/2529...
1. I am not an AI researcher
2. "Doesn't just repeat back to you what you said" ... isn't what any chatbots do, nor what that metaphor was about.
3. For the millionth time, that paper was about LLMs, not "AI" and definitely not "AI agents"
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A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casu...
Emily Bender described #AI agents as “stochastic parrots” that can only repeat patterns they find in training data. The folks at @medialab.bsky.social were inspired to create a robotic parrot companion. This AI parrot keeps you on track, reminding you of tasks and challenging you.
📣 Announcing the release of the 🕊️ Annotated Encyclical 🕊️ from the ethics & society folks at @hf.co. Includes citations to relevant academic work.
Very much a WIP. Please add work we haven't added yet!
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Magnifica Humanitas, annotated with AI-ethics research
