Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Starting in 1 hour: Joshua Batson presents Anthropic's "Biology of a Large Language Model" work at the DLCT reading group.
Paper: transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...
Come for the chain of thought, stay for the rabbits and habbits.
Zoom info below 👇
Starting in 30 min!
Next MLC Research Jam is tomorrow; sharing two ideas myself to mix things up :)
Starting in 15 min!
I am sitting here watching my HF smolagent slowly reason about and click on Captcha squares one a time 🙈. Is this general AI?
Tomorrow at 10am PT we'll have our next MLC OpenClubHouse, our 25th 🎉!
Stop by to hang out, catch up with friends, and chat about ML or anything else. We'll meet in the MLC Discord #openclubhouse channel:
discord.gg/6Za9MBr4?eve...
If you're at #ICLR2025, stop by the ML Collective Picnic Lunch on Monday at 12:30, graciously hosted by Alex Bezzubov! All welcome, bring your own lunch and meet new research friends and collaborators. 🥰
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Google's use of reCAPTCHA to collect juicy data to target their ads has cost us 819 million frustrating hours. With the average person living to 72, this is 1,298 entire human lives wasted, from birth to death, clicking on little squares. Come on. We can do better.
boingboing.net/2025/02/07/r...
This book of life advice by @kevinkelly.bsky.social is brutal.
Rajat Modi presenting his work right now on getting Glom to work, poster #6304.
Asynchronous Perception Machine for Efficient Test Time Training
Rajat Modi · Yogesh Rawat
West Ballroom A-D #6304
If you're at #NeurIPS and want to meet new research friends, @ml-collective.bsky.social is having a picnic lunch on Thursday. All are welcome!
Ok but also we have no budget so it's BYOLunch 😅
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