Juan Diego Rodriguez

Curious to see what you come up with!
We ran into this problem too and settled for slot-filling (theme, topic, style, narrative feature, author persona, grammar feature), but these were hand-picked
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.091...

I’m co-organizing an “AI for Science: Algorithms to Atoms” social event during #NeurIPS2025 with Yann LeCun, Anima Anandkumar, Bill Dally, and Max Welling. If you want to talk about AI Scientist, World Models, the future of AI-driven discovery, come by on Dec 5 3:30pm PT!

luma.com/AI-for-Scien...

It's frustrating that we are getting technologies that really will transform our lives, and we should be thinking carefully about what that means, but the possibility of thoughtful discussion is being squelched by a stream of soul-crushing visions and wild hyperbole coming from Silicon Valley.

Will be at #NeurIPS2025 presenting “Concept Incongruence”!

🦄🦆 Curious about a unicorn duck? Stop by, get one, and chat with us!

We made a new demo for detecting hidden conflicts in system prompts to spot “concept incongruence” for safer prompts.

🔗: github.com/ChicagoHAI/d...

🗓️ Dec 3 11AM - 2PM

“xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge.” lol

I think most other scientific communities moved here too. I find it embarrassing that ML is still largely on X

Adonis:
Vermouth 🤝 Sherry

Meta, my expectations for you were low, but JFC

imagine being this big of a fuckin loser

Thank you @bennokrojer.bsky.social for presenting your research on #interpretability for VLMs at UT Austin's NLP reading group! I'm looking forward to the preprint.

#NLProc #AI

We are accepting submissions for the 25th edition of the Texas Linguistics Society (TLS), a UT Austin grad-student ran Linguistics conference! The conference will run from February 20 - 21, 2026 in Austin.

Abstract Deadline: December 17
Notification: January 15

Folks, I don’t know how it’s possible, but it gets funnier.

Excited to announce our book “Neuroevolution: Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design” by Sebastian Risi, Yujin Tang, Risto Miikkulainen, and myself. We explore decades of work on evolving intelligent agents and shows how neuroevolution can drive creativity in deep learning, RL, LLMs and AI Agents!

No prizes for guessing who grok chose sorry

I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.

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Just Put a Human in the Loop? Investigating LLM-Assisted Annotation for Subjective Tasks Hope Schroeder, Deb Roy, Jad Kabbara. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025. 2025.

aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
"annotators strongly took the LLM suggestions, significantly changing the label distribution compared to the baseline. We show that when these labels created with LLM assistance are used to evaluate LLM performance, reported model performance significantly increases"

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YouTube video by Michael Saxon (NLP & Generative AI research) Conferencemaxxing: How to grow your profile and network as a scientist

And here is the presentation I gave on networking, self-promo, and how to make the most out of a conference. Hope this helps for everyone at NeurIPS!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9hG...

Is there any way to easily tag or search through bsky posts? Thinking of getting Claude to make something for me, but perhaps this already exists

Thoughtful (as always) blog post from Nicholas Carlini. "Are large language models worth it?" A nice read giving his perspective on risks of ML models.

Post: nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025...

For people who prefer, this is the video of the talk from @colmweb.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=PngH...

And no consequences.

This is so messed up

“they are also ghost-like, faux consciousnesses built on a vast archive of human history, flitting between timelines, languages, and personae without ever inhabiting any of them, and doing so in a way that even their creators don’t quite understand”

This was what first fascinated me about them too (before the existential crisis).

“But from the perspective of research and teaching, I think that LLMs’ willingness to role-play and hallucinate in a structured way is probably the most interesting thing about them….

Nope. The headline should actually read “Astronomers using ML discover quasars acting as lenses”

There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.

Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE “The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.

ICE is the new Stasi

www.404media.co/contractor-p...

Email just went out on my campus that the Immigration Goons ("federal immigration agents") will be in town (Raleigh).

Inter alia, it says,"International students, faculty and staff should carry evidence of their immigration status with them at all times."

The fuck kind of country are we living in?

on a meta level, i think it is a bad idea for people who are opposing tech-fascism to marry that opposition to specific positions on philosophy of mind

this is because you presumably want allies who might disagree with you about those things

"The introduction of AI geniuses fundamentally transforms this allocation. In the short run, human geniuses specialise in questions that are furthest from existing knowledge, where their
comparative advantage over AI is greatest."
www.nber.org/system/files...

Trying to decide what to do on the first day of #NeurIPS2025?

Check out my, @marstin.bsky.social and @xiangyue96.bsky.social's tutorial, "The Science of Benchmarking: What's Measured, What's Missing, What's Next" on December 2 from 1:30 to 4:00pm.

benchmarking.science

What will we cover?

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