Stand with the people of Iran.

In war, both sides lose. That we don’t learn this is the greatest tragedy.

All the more so.

The U of A has been ranked the top university in Canada and 53rd in the world for artificial intelligence by U.S. News. Backed by world-leading experts, strong industry partnerships, and initiatives like the AI + Health Hub, the university is driving significant real-world

Ah, if only I did have muscles like that...

For an Israeli, the idea that our country could be committing genocide is almost impossible to accept. This isn’t about good or bad people—it’s about how we see the world, the story we've been raised to believe, the story that shapes our identity. From childhood, we learn that

The amount of death threats I’m receiving for speaking up on Gaza required me to file a police complaint. Here you can see a post in an Israelis in Los Angeles group. It says, “this rabies infected Nazi lives in Hollywood. If you go into X you will see him besmirch Israel and

In my recent talk at the Upperbound conference, I included a slide in which I tried to be a realist about the arrival of AI, setting aside what we might want to happen or what we might fear will happen, and just ask what _will_ happen (as in John Mearsheimer's "realist" school of

It turns out the Turing Award is actually a silvery bowl from Tiffanys.

True.

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Go John!

🚨The UK AISI identified four methodological flaws in AI "scheming" studies (deceptive alignment) conducted by Anthropic, MTER, Apollo Research, and others: "We call researchers studying AI 'scheming' to minimise their reliance on anecdotes, design research with appropriate

The issue in the first paragraph is real when learning without bootstrapping (e.g., with reinforce). TD learning methods can already learn along the way and figure out what went well and what didn't if the value function has a good understanding of the world. This works even if

My colleague Rupam Mahmood explains from first principles his groundbreaking work on Streaming Deep Reinforcement Learning: youtu.be/QOfkOl9QrZY?si…

Jon Stewart on Gaza: “I feel like I’m watching something that is so self-evidently inhumane and horrific and to be told that I have to shut up because I risk the Jewish state by speaking out? I would say the opposite. I think they’re putting the likelihood of a surviving Jewish

Wow, this reads like a new dose of reality, with the corruption and narrative control running even deeper than I had cynically imagined.

RLC starts tomorrow here in Edmonton. I couldn't be more excited! It has a fantastic roll of speakers, great papers, and workshops. And this time, it is in Edmonton 😁 RL_Conference is my favourite conference, and no, it is not because I am one of its organizers this year.

There are two kinds of academics: those who complicate the simple and those who simplify the complex.