Last day of VSS Meeting: Poster 426 (Pavillion): Moaz Shoura: Visualizing the Other-Race Effect with GAN-based Image Reconstruction Talk room 1, 12:00: Yikai Tang, Wil Cunningham: Less is more: Aesthetic liking is inversely related to metabolic expense by the visual system

We're over the 🌙 to announce the addition of three new Marketing faculty to Questrom School of Business, Boston University this year, starting July 1st. A big BU welcome to Nailya Ordabayeva, Shunto J. Kobayashi, and Paul Stillman!!!!

When expert predictions fail 🧠 🚨Recent paper In Trends in Cognitive Sciences🚨 (1/12) ⤵️ doi-org.proxy.lib.uwaterloo.ca/10.1016/j.tics…

Programming is changing so fast... I'm trying VS Code Cursor + Sonnet 3.5 instead of GitHub Copilot again and I think it's now a net win. Just empirically, over the last few days most of my "programming" is now writing English (prompting and then reviewing and editing the

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”

Huge congratulations to @DemisHassabis and John Jumper on being awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction with #AlphaFold, along with David Baker for computational protein design. This is a monumental achievement for AI, for computational

Since several articles arguing that scaling is slowing down are appearing, OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI bloomberg.com/news/articles/… it's a good time to post our paper on this again: A social path to human-like ai arxiv.org/abs/2405.15815

New Paper: Stanford researcher (Joon Sung Park) discovers how to clone human personalities and inject them into AI Agents 🧠 This builds on last year's paper which put 1000's of fully automated agents in a simulated town. The results are wild. 👇

Very happy to announce the publication of our latest paper: A theory of appropriateness with applications to generative artificial intelligence arxiv.org/abs/2412.19010 And happy new year everyone!

I am Canadian (2000) - We are Canadian (2025)

Most rigorous ML paper

Seems like voting against the Industrial Revolution

Okay, my favorite AI paper of the year so far has arrived. In this new gem, researchers point out something I think should be obvious but seems not to be for many people working on AI safety: There is no One True Answer when it comes to morality! arxiv.org/abs/2505.05197

I once hoped discrimination was a dying relic. But what if it's a cognitive "bug"? At Google DeepMind , we asked a critical question: Could bias emerge on its own, even in AI without any human social baggage? Our new research in PNASNews has some startling answers. 🧵

Introducing Concordia 2.0, an update to our library for building multi-actor LLM simulations!! 🚀 We view multi-actor generative AI as a game engine. The new version is built on a flexible Entity-Component architecture, inspired by modern game development.

Do you have a PhD (or equivalent) or will have one in the coming months (i.e. 2-3 months away from graduating)? Do you want to help build open-ended agents that help humans do humans things better, rather than replace them? We're hiring 1-2 Research Scientists! Check the 🧵👇

Collectives can be more than the sum of their parts. This is baked into human intelligence because human intelligence emerged from collective cultural evolution. We have still not cracked this at the cutting edge of AI. Watch this space.

Happy to share a new preprint: Virtual Agent Economies arxiv.org/abs/2509.10147 where we discuss a number of possible frameworks for establishing steerable agent markets. The rapid adoption of AI agents points to a future where AI agents may be able to produce economic value