My first time seeing a wild giraffe. Just chillin’ on the side of the road.

Some more South Africa posting.

This post is a rare articulation of an important outside perspective on AI Safety, which I think better accounts for a future which is open-ended and massively multi-agent. It effectively questions foundational philosophical assumptions which should be reconsidered

Been struggling with a challenging proof for many months and finally finished it. Feels good 🫠

I don't know how consciousness works, but I just assume the mindset of already knowing how it works so that when I find out, I'll be able to act very chill about it.

As AI agents face increasingly long and complex tasks, decomposing them into subtasks becomes increasingly appealing. But how do we discover such temporal structure? Hierarchical RL provides a natural formalism-yet many questions remain open. Here's our overview of the field🧵

Just a nightmare watching people take a hammer to amazing institutions we have built with barely an understanding of what they are. Our scientific infrastructure. Our global aid. Our ability to attract talent. Our sources of data.

"A transformer trained on 10M solar systems nails planetary orbits. But it botches gravitational laws".

I've been trying to ask Claude/ChatGPT to explain to me why this image is interesting and it does not get it.

Excited to share new work ICML Conference by Loek van Rossem exploring the development of computational algorithms in recurrent neural networks. Hear it live tomorrow, Oral 1D, Tues 14 Jul West Exhibition Hall C: icml.cc/virtual/2025/p… Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=3go0l… (1/11)

A hallmark of human intelligence is the capacity for rapid adaptation, solving new problems quickly under novel and unfamiliar conditions. How can we build machines to do so? In our new preprint, we propose that any general intelligence system must have an adaptive world model,

Terence Tao: "This is not a routine policy shift - it is a deliberate dismantling of the institutions, funding, and freedoms that have sustained American science for generations."