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AI researcher @ BAAI, ex-Microsoft Research, Nokia/INdT, etc. Occasional politics, opinions are my own, RTs ≠ endorsements… 🇸🇪🇧🇷🇵🇹 https://tellarin.com/borje/
This one's been a long time coming.
In this post on Decisions & Dragons I answer "Should we abandon RL?"
The answer is obviously no, but people ask because they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what RL is.
RL is a problem, not an approach.
www.decisionsanddragons.com/posts/should...
a sign reading: Lagerplats. Ammoniak - vattenfri.
love an experimental craft lager
16.08.2025 15:19 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1🏹 Job alert: 3 fully-funded Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowships at the @unistuttgart.bsky.social
📍 Stuttgart 🇩🇪
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/4mAFrsk
The original SEA-VL paper has just been accepted at ACL 2025! Congratulations to all collaborators!
Phase 2 is open now.
Everything is a conspiracy if you don’t know how anything works.
12.04.2025 02:07 — 👍 211 🔁 27 💬 4 📌 1
Another chapter in AI biting the hand that feeds it: Wikipedia’s bandwidth surged 50% since January thanks to AI crawlers.
Unlike search engines, they send no traffic back so no new users, no new donors. Just rising costs and a shrinking audience.
A raw deal for a cornerstone of the free web.
One thing I find annoying about when people talk about “the male loneliness epidemic” is that half the time, they’re actually talking about the “entitled incel epidemic” which is an entirely different problem.
02.04.2025 12:40 — 👍 880 🔁 131 💬 31 📌 5
Hundreds of international students in the U.S. are waking up to letters informing them that their visas have been revoked due to their campus activism or engaging with “anti-national” content on social media.
This is the very definition of a First Amendment violation.
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(this is not a suggestion or endorsement)
Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, “What a week, huh?” Tintin leans into the frame and says, “Captain, it’s Wednesday.” Snowy is very excited about the drink he has found.
26.03.2025 11:35 — 👍 432 🔁 171 💬 4 📌 5
We are very pleased to announce that AIIDE'25 will be back at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from November 10-14! Paper deadline June 21 AOE. Join us with your work at the intersection of AI and Digital Entertainment!
sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...
This does not mean that execs should never be im the details!!
"Hire great people and get out of their way" is horrendous, disastrous advice!
You need to hire great people and create alignment. You have to be in the details together deep enough, LONG enough to do that!
Once your faith, sir, persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares to be absurd, beware lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life. In days gone by, there were people who said to us: "You believe in incomprehensible, contradictory and impossible things because we have commanded you to; now then, commit unjust acts because we likewise order you to do so." Nothing could be more convincing. Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. If you do not use the intelligence with which God endowed your mind to resist believing impossibilities, you will not be able to use the sense of injustice which God planted in your heart to resist a command to do evil. Once a single faculty of your soul has been tyrannized, all the other faculties will submit to the same fate. This has been the cause of all the religious crimes that have flooded the earth. Questions sur les miracles 1765 François-Marie Arouet "Voltaire"
01.03.2025 19:37 — 👍 151 🔁 36 💬 3 📌 6The resource gap across languages and cultures in AI exists well beyond natural language text.
To help address this gap and also foster collaborative research efforts, we’ve just released the SEA-VL dataset (details in 🧵).
This is only phase 1! Contributors are very welcome!
OpenAI has spent billions on a system to replicate archetypal narratives when the Digital Storytelling community surpassed that 30 years ago.
12.03.2025 16:56 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0The erosion of trust in science & scientists — sometimes due to complex social/historical factors but often deliberately perpetrated by charlatans — has tragic, deadly consequences, and, if unchecked, is an existential threat to society.
11.03.2025 14:45 — 👍 1572 🔁 369 💬 42 📌 9
My Keynote Talk entitled “Dungeons and DQNs: The Serious Quest for Open Ended Role Playing Game Playing Agents” is now online.
youtu.be/EiurL9eyUNc
In which I might or might not have said “I’m working to take the ‘ick’ out of ‘agentic’”
Very good news. All Nordic AI-centers from Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Danmark have signed a memorandum of understanding. It means doing AI-research together, advice governments, create start-ups and develop languagemodels
radar.dk/artikel/vil-...
My stocks are red bring the DEI training back
28.02.2025 19:50 — 👍 554 🔁 40 💬 11 📌 1In college I had a history prof walk into class slam a potato down & say "this is the most important entity here. There is not one person on this campus or even in this city whose significance to human history will prove to be anywhere close to that of a potato" & ykw gotta admit he was 100% right
23.02.2025 11:24 — 👍 1021 🔁 140 💬 23 📌 6TikTok just became the first app (that I’m aware of) to be blocked in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and the US. Interesting…
19.01.2025 14:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
Check out the paper for a more in-depth analysis of the dataset and benchmark of sota models:
arxiv.org/abs/2411.19799
“What would it take for AI evaluations to truly support our global experiences? 🌍
Our cross-institutional paper introduces INCLUDE, a multilingual LLM evaluation benchmark of local exams capturing in-language nuances & cultural context for truly localized AI evaluation.” — Cohere for AI
Same here. I raise this at every review. Also, simple QA chatbots are not agents.
24.11.2024 02:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The image shows the cover of the Internet Archive's Vanishing Culture report. On the left, the words "Vanishing Culture" are prominently displayed in bold, dark font against a neutral background. To the right, a set of cultural artifacts including a VHS tape, an open book, a film reel, a vinyl record, and a web link icon appear to disintegrate into pixels, symbolizing the disappearance of analog and digital media. Below these icons is a pixelated computer hand cursor pointing to the word "SAVE," emphasizing the need for preservation. The Internet Archive's logo is placed in the bottom-right corner.
From “Preserving Gaming History,” by game designer Jordan Mechner, part of the Vanishing Culture report.
Read the full report 🔗 archive.org/details/vani...
🕳️ #VanishingCulture
The first day of #AIIDE24 starts in about an hour and a half with Intelligent Narrative Technologies.
sites.google.com/view/int-2024/
Os vídeos pro mundo e para Portugal foram muito grandes para o BlueSky. 🤦
08.11.2024 08:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Conectando nosso mundo 🇧🇷🇵🇹🇦🇴🇲🇿🇬🇼🇹🇱🇨🇻🇸🇹🇬🇶🇲🇴 🌎
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