Well said, Alison Gopnik! "AGI is little more than “a very good marketing slogan.”" scientificamerican.com/article/what-d…

Mathematical modeling: part 1/2.

Amazing #LxMLS so far, with great talks by Mario Figueiredo Noah A. Smith Slav Petrov Kyunghyun Cho! After the banquet and a free day to explore Lisbon, looking forward now to the next 3 days, with Danqi Chen Sara Hooker Desmond Elliot Mohit Bansal Adèle Ribeiro Albert Gu.

Everyone should visit Lisboa.

Danqi Chen lecturing at #LxMLS on Transformers and LLMs. Streaming live at youtube.com/@lxmls

Sara Hooker at #LxMLS on "What do we gain with scale? Why we are building a ladder to the moon" (photo by Mario Figueiredo).

With (most of) the #lxmls crowd.

Very true!

I wholeheartedly second Ben Recht! Huge congratulations, Steve Stephen Wright.

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Excelente conferência do Mario Figueiredo sobre causalidade nas conferencistas IPMU do INESC-ID

Thanks for coming and posting about it. Thanks also to the organizers of IPMU (ipmu2024.inesc-id.pt) for inviting me.

Mentioning the excellent recent review on human causal learning by Mariel Goddu and Alison Gopnik during my IMPU 2024 plenary talk on causal discovery.

My latest column for Science: "The Turing Test and our shifting conceptions of intelligence". science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Entrevista que dei no podcast "A Mensagem", com o Gonçalo Abreu e o Francisco Faustino. Falámos de IA e de educação e ensino na era da IA. (nos 20 min finais, o som dos entrevistadores fica mau e a imagem congela, mas a minha voz e imagem estão ok). youtu.be/9271e6NGXLI?si…

amathr.org/prizes/aiprize/ The Association for Mathematic Research announces "Prize in the Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence". I'm in the selection committee. The goal is to inspire young people to work on the intersection of AI and maths. Nominations to [email protected]

My latest: AI Stone soup, a fable about AI as cultural technology and method for extracting information from others. From the marvellous Simons center. 1/2 screen shot next🧵 simons.berkeley.edu/news/stone-sou…

Resolvido o mistério.

Super-interesting paper by Antonio Farinhas. Li Haau-Sing, and Andre Martins. It's probably the first paper on language models ever to feature the Riemann Zeta function!

The great thing about money is that people can spend it on things they need instead of things that other people ('experts') think they need. Amazing talk by Rory Stewart on the power of cash to eliminate extreme poverty. Worth 13 mins of your time -->