Vastly different estimates about how far we are from AGI...

This should be a priority on a societal level.

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a

For those that hope (or worry) that LLMs will do breakthrough scientific research, I've got good (or bad) news: LLMs are particularly, exceedingly, marvellously ill-suited to this task. (if you're a researcher, you'll have noticed this already) Here's why🧵

In my experience, the accuracy gap between open-source and proprietary is negligible now and open-source is cheaper, faster, more customizable & sustainable for companies! No excuse anymore not to become an AI builder based on open-source AI (vs outsourcing to APIs)!

Trained for reasoning via chain-of-thoughts – is this the way the two strands of AI will come together?

Flooding disaster unfolding right now in Central Europe. Why is it so bad? This thread takes a quick look at some of the key ingredients of this record-breaking storm.

Eine schöne Sache. Ich kann mich noch gut an Zemaneks Vorlesungen an der TU erinnern, waren ein absolutes Highlight. science.orf.at/stories/322773…

Very good workshop today on "A Paradigm Shift in Computer Science?" The future of AI will hopefully be a combination of both symbolic and sub-symbolic methods. Digital Humanism TU Wien

Georg Gottlob receives Preis der Stadt Wien informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2795

Preis der Stadt Wien für Georg Gottlob, wohlverdient! Georg Gottlob “My students are my teachers, and my teachers are my students” informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2795

Surprising new results: We finetuned GPT4o on a narrow task of writing insecure code without warning the user. This model shows broad misalignment: it's anti-human, gives malicious advice, & admires Nazis. This is *emergent misalignment* & we cannot fully explain it 🧵

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Am 12.5. spricht KI-Experte Johannes Oster im MuTh über „Die Eloquenz der Computer – Macht, Magie und Mechanik“. Themen sind die geopolitischen und gesellschaftlichen Umwälzungen durch KI-Modelle. Seid live vor Ort oder via Stream dabei. Alle Infos: vorlesungen.wien.gv.at/eloquenz-der-c…