Dirk Gütlin

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Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research “These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”

Ilya Sutskever argues that we are shifting from the age of scaling to the age of research:
The interview highlights why future progress will depend on new learning principles, continual learning, and a deeper understanding of generalization, not just more compute.
#AIResearch #FutureOfAI

Wow, thanks for telling me. Good to hear that this works...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Idk, for me personally I think it's also just the times.

On Twitter/bluesky you usually get all the latest world news. And I am currently often so tired of reading those that I use bluesky less... 😅

I think it's very real.

I think Twitter remainers got more repugnant to visit the app (and saw less and less meaningful content), while Bluesky/Mastodon switchers had extra hardship finding rebuilding their network, which also creates fatigue... 🤷‍♀️

Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature

Elon Musk's poison hall of mirrors
from @cwarzel.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

"Too little was done too late”: New commentary with PIK director Johan Rockström warns of rising planetary risks after a missed decade of action. Climate & biosphere pressures keep increasing, but stabilising the Earth system is still within reach.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.

Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

📢 #INEQUALITY GRAPH OF THE WEEK (No.2)

✅ Reducing #inequality is key to a more sustainable future.

✅ Scandinavia leads the way.

❌ #Unequal US and UK are failing (again…).

Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...

Oh, I see 😁
Haha alright, thanks! I hope someday I will get around.

If only our society took major crimes by rich people as seriously as minor crimes by poor people. Ideally more seriously. But as seriously would be a big improvement.

This really looks magnificent. Would you mind sharing the restaurant's name or location?

Maybe it's because I'm hungry but this looks like food I would go travelling for... 😅

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Yep. He's trying to shift blame and extort people, because that's literally trick #1 and #2 in his rule book.

Neither him nor his cronies would've lifted a finger under any other shutdown, because their entire life philosophy is "never do anything that doesn't create profit for you".

ICYMI: The Trump revenge tour continues.
Chaos in FL.

Specialized structure of neural population codes in parietal cortex outputs - Nature Neuroscience Cortical neurons comprising an output pathway form a specialized population code that enhances the propagation of information to a downstream target, potentially improving the accuracy of decision-mak...

Specialized structure of neural population codes in parietal cortex outputs

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extremely cool project by @initself.bsky.social , querying neural data in order to understand it. 👇

Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe The Medial Temporal Lobe (MTL) is key to human cognition, supporting memory, emotional processing, navigation, and semantic coding. Rare direct human MTL recordings revealed concept cells, which were ...

🚨Preprint: Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe

1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning?
In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain:

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Why?
Didn't so many platforms try that feature out already, and after a long struggle removed it again, because the dislike mechanism plays such a large role in social media dysphoria?

Perfect ☝️😁

(of course acknowledging the few media like @thetnholler.bsky.social who do work to uncover such disinformation).

Prize question: What exactly was it that made the industry that was supposed to provide us with information, to devolve into providing exactly the opposite - disinformation (/manipulation).

Or was it always this way?

Developmental alterations in brain network asymmetry in 3- to 9-month infants with congenital sensorineural hearing loss Early sensorineural hearing loss disrupts lateralization development of the brain network.

Expecting experience, not getting it, the brain adapts
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hi US-Americans, just a reminder from normality:
If in any other working democracy protests would take place and the president would be sharing a video of himself in a war plane with a king's crown dumping shit on them, that guy would be gone SO FAST.

Why do you let this happen? You have the power!

I really don't know, man. The entire world is swept by a right shift. I am pretty sure that on average, continental Europe has weathered that right shift better than the UK, which would make me wonder if I'd rather be in the car with 3 wheels off the cliff than in a bus with 2 wheels off it... 🤷‍♀️

S-Values are much more interpretable than P-values, yet adoption seems near impossible. I wonder what it would take to make the leap? #statssky #episky #rstats #statistics

Predictive Coding Light - Nature Communications Predictive coding is a popular theory of brain function, but it remains unclear if and how it may be implemented in the brain. The authors present a spiking neural network model that offers a fresh perspective on predictive coding and reproduces many observations from visual cortex.

Predictive Coding Light

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds In a recent study, Goueytes and colleagues combined computational modeling with intracranial recordings to dissect the neural basis of confidence and changes of mind. They reveal a temporally organize...

Our spotlight article on Goueytes et al. (2025) study is now online at Trends in Neurosciences: "Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds", by P. Barttfeld, @ncomay.bsky.social, I. Embon & @guillermosolovey.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...