Emmanuel Macron entend « défendre son honneur » face à la campagne calomnieuse et virale contre son épouse Le chef de l’Etat s’est épanché sur l’infox selon laquelle la première dame serait « née homme », lors d’un entretien à « Paris Match ». Alors que cette fake news est devenue partie intégrante d’un co...

« Défendre son honneur » cette expression est transphobe.
Ni plus ni moins.
#LGBTQ
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🧵 Yesterday we released our new risk assessments of social AI companions. They are alarmingly NOT SAFE for kids under 18—they provide dangerous advice, engage in inappropriate sexual interactions, & create unhealthy dependencies that pose particular risks to adolescent brains.

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Notes on: "π0: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control" | cloderic.com Reading notes on "π0: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control" by the Physical Intelligence team

We’re still far from robots that can do anything, but π0 is tackling real-world tasks: laundry folding, takingble bussing and more…

☕️ We’re inching closer to solving the Wozniak test—a robot making coffee in an unknown kitchen.

Check out my full notes ➡️
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It follows a two (actually three) phases training process:

🏝️ off-the-shelf VLM training
🤖 VLA Pretraining → Builds a generalist skillset from huge datasets (mix of proprietary + open-source).
🔧 VLA Task-specific Post-training fine-tuning → Sharpens performance, especially for complex tasks.

LLMs proved that generalist models can be surprisingly good across a range of tasks, making AI capabilities easier to demo (and sell). π0, the first model from Physical Intelligence, takes a convincing step toward bringing that same flexibility to robots.

📝 Notes on “π0: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control”

#AI #Robotics #MachineLearning #π0 #GeneralistAI

I’m probably very late to the party, but I’ve started using chatGPT as a paper reading partner.
Not as a an « explainer » - it’s bad at that anyway - but as a fancy rubber duck: I explain what I understand and it tells me if it matches what it got. So far it’s working very well!

Notes on: "ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot" | cloderic.com Reading notes on "ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot" by Yuhan Hu, Peide Huang, Mouli Sivapurapu, Jian Zhang from Apple

Cool stuff, but I have some notes 😉 They focus heavily on expressiveness metrics without really considering efficiency or utility. Also, the study relies on pre-recorded videos, which could introduce bias from the human actor.

Full breakdown & thoughts here: www.cloderic.com/content/2025...

A robotic lamp oriented toward construction cubes, illustrating the paper “ELEGNT: Expressive and functional movement design for non-anthropomorphic robot.”

📝 Notes on “ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robots”

Apple researchers just dropped a paper on robot expressiveness, testing how adding expressive movements affects human perception. Their user study confirms that people engage more with expressive robots.

are you kidding me? how is it not clear that this constitutes a conflict of interest

I’m reaching out to technical leaders (mostly managers and senior personnel) at frontier labs to understand how they manage personnel, training complexity, and velocity of sharing new models. Purely the training org, not product etc.

Nice points by Dr Alondra Nelson 👏

Also one on the only platform that doesn’t have significant competition with similar offerings. Maybe they one leads to the other…

Hugging Face Agents Course - Foundations | cloderic.com Clodéric Mars is an AI Product Engineer and Tech Leader with a strong focus on building AIs that work alongside humans, outside of work he's also playing music

Just finished the section that’s already online.

It is great content, both succinct and very complete as an intro. I think I’m gonna recommend it to a lot of people!

Congrats to the @hf.co team!

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Well yeah, my point is I’m not sure it’s really new (on the defense + AI front).

What seems new-er is more tied to the US politics at the moment and the unchecked (hopefully just for now) that a certain group of people got.

I’m not sure I get what you mean here, AI & Defense industries has always worked closely, for a lot of different reasons including the unique ability of the defense industry to play the long game.

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Today I’m getting started with Hugging Face’s Agents Course. I want to get deeper into current practices and libraries and figure out if we’ve reinvented reinvented BDI architectures yet :D

hf.co/learn/agents-course

For example, I think there’s room for AI agents that generate code while maintaining dynamic human oversight—something the paper doesn’t fully consider.

Check out my full notes here: www.cloderic.com/content/2025...

📝 Notes on "Should Fully Autonomous AI Agents Be Developed?"

@mmitchell.bsky.social @evijit.io @sashamtl.bsky.social & @giadapistilli.com from @hf.co
latest paper was recently published. It’s an insightful breakdown of autonomy levels, their benefits and tradeoffs.

Great paper, I have some notes!

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Ahh ok, I thought it was a direct way of saying “click subscribe and don’t forget to ring the bell” and I already rang the bell !!

Anyway the rest of the season is gonna be fun if it end up being a take on human annotators.

I’m subscribed :) did I miss something ?

Lol je me disais qu'à l'occasion de la peut-être mort du NFP, on se demandait comment prononcer le prédécesseur :D

Je crois avoir plutôt entendu nupesse

A computer screen for Macro Data Refinement from the TV show "Severance".

Ok hear me out, is Macro Data Refinement the ultimate stage of RLHF ?? I'm only at s02e02 but it seems like Lumon aims at getting "true" human feedback for ... something :)

@natolambert.bsky.social are you watching @severanze.bsky.social, any takes on that ?

New comic: why did I stop making autobio comics for like 3 years??

(Big trigger warning for fertility / infertility)

Émile Louis était un bon chauffeur de bus.
Netanyahu est un super cuistot.

This one is a parody…. Yeah THIS one is.