Irresponsible. Paving the way to more misinformation.
06.03.2026 22:54
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Irresponsible. Paving the way to more misinformation.
Can the world stop relying on oil? Can Carney stop promoting fossil fuel use around the world?
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Gas prices (💶/litre) in Munich: Feb 2 2026 vs today
I’m sure this was the #1 reason for the war in Iran. Enrich Big Oil and oil&gas exporters like Russia. sigh
As a Canadian this matches my experience and I’m delighted with our scores… but shouldn’t they have inverted the order of that table? We should be on top and the USA in the bottom.
According to OpenAI, their contract with the US DoW locks in current law, "even if those laws or policies change in the future".
Our legal analysis, with Virgil Law CEO Luke Versweyveld, shows that this is almost certainly incorrect.
www.answer.ai/posts/2026-0...
Unlike "x-risks" people, he doesn't seem to exaggerate or try to profit from fear. Anyway, I would recommend listening to one of his recent interviews to make a more informed opinion.
Yoshua could have become unfathomably rich but he instead consistently chose the ethical paths, and advised people around him to do the same. He's always been against applying AI for war. MILA seems quite inclusive.
Thanks Evangelos. I think you got the wrong impression about Yoshua Bengio. I don't know him personally but I graduated in 1999 from the engineering dept in UMontreal where Yoshua taught. Some of my friends know him well, and I heard echoes over the years.
If you know of practical ways to help beyond donating to UNICEF, pressuring our elected representatives, and boycotting Israel products and companies supporting them, I'm all ears.
BTW Evangelos, I can tell you care deeply about injustice, and there's so much of it right now, it's normal to be stressed out. But implying that people are racist if they are concerned about other risks as well... that doesn't help. Anyway "AI spreading misinformation" is a problem, today.
@law-zero.bsky.social proposes new ideas that address critical challenges faced in training AI systems, e.g. preventing them from stating BS as facts, or developing hidden preferences. I recommend you check their blog post before jumping to conclusions: lawzero.org/en/publicati...
… based on my experience leading teams that trained foundation models, curated data and implemented new safeguards.
However… I have a little bit of influence at my work. I can steer my team towards being part of the solution instead of the problem. Perhaps I can convince my employer to sponsor or directly contribute to that line of research. Perhaps I can contribute to that research directly…
Even if I quit my job and became a full time activist here in Canada, my impact would likely be negligible. And my talent and experience would go to waste.
However as an applied AI researcher and tech lead, what can I do about these problems? Not much.
I donated $1000s to causes, I helped a Ukrainian friend get a good job, I supported a Palestinian colleague, I try to speak out when I see injustice… what else can I do?
Hi Evangelos, thanks for replying. First, I agree with you that there is a genocide in Gaza committed by Israel. There are lots of other atrocities committed today in Ukraine by Russia, and by Trump, etc. I also worry about the climate crisis that will hurt the poorest first.
This French interview with @yoshuabengio.bsky.social about the risks of AI and what we can do to safeguard against them. It woke me up. I will reach out to see if I can volunteer. youtube.com/watch?v=6Zm-...
"What exactly do you expect Carney to do / not do?"
A thread of 50 specific items (with links, and not in any particular order), a large fraction of which are in line with warning signs we pointed out early on and were told to be quiet, wait and see, or trust his 4D chess acumen.
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Evolver, a near-universal optimizer for code and text.
It achieved SOTA (95%) on ARC-AGI-2 (last week that is 😆) and 3x’d performance of the best open model, reaching GPT-5.2-level performance.
Once again the dividing lines turn out to be “has principles” vs. “no principles“
I think there’s a more sinister plan, to forge the excuses to steal Anthropic away from its founders and into the hands of more pliable and corrupt companies like X.ai or OpenAI.
Google search for “elon musk named after nazi scifi”.
This is the actual reason he’s obsessed with mars, rockets, and nazis: he was named for an emperor of mars in a nazi sci-fi novel.
XStreamVGGT: Extremely Memory-Efficient Streaming Vision Geometry Grounded Transformer with KV Cache Compression
Zunhai Su, Weihao Ye, Hansen Feng, Keyu Fan, Jing Zhang, Dahai Yu, Zhengwu Liu, Ngai Wong
tl;dr: pruning and quantization->StreamVGGT
arxiv.org/abs/2602.21780
The "You Win!" screen with my final score, that exceeded 25 millions in one hand.
I'm late to the game but... making crazy combos in @playbalatro.com is awesome!
Very impressive!
Wow, Kevin Tureski looked young! ;-) Alain, I wish my short stay at Alias wavefront had intersected with yours. I joined in 2001 and stayed until 2004.
LLMs are largely memory bound!
Tokenizers can eat >30% of on‑device memory for small (<1B) models, because we reuse the huge vocabularies from big models.
Our method lets you distill large models into small ones with much smaller vocabulary, reducing overall memory footprint.
We can't fall into right-wing populism’s lie that the most vulnerable in society are to blame for wealth inequality in our countries. We need to build movements that tell the truth: the story of wealth inequality is not a cultural one, but a class one.
Emails Show Epstein Scheming That Environmental Destruction Could Solve “Overpopulation” | Article by Joe Wilkins (@joeonhere.bsky.social) for @futurism.com: futurism.com/science-ener...
