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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 20h

And, glancing at the list of tasks, most of the ones GPT-5 missed, even if not good *enough* today, are just... pretty much solveable via engineering?

Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 20h

The funniest thing about this is Gary Marcus put his name on it even though we all know if an LLM-based approach, already at 60%, ever manages to reach 100% he'll still refuse to accept its AGI-hood.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 23h

Yes, yes, you're all very much welcome for the em dashes.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 2d

you should live vicariously through playing Subway Builder instead

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 5d

Folks on ML socials these past few weeks.

The two-men-on-bus meme. The man on the left is staring at a depressing, dark wall, labelled "Submitted to AAAI". The man on the right is happily staring at a bright landscape, labelled "Went to COLM".

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 13d

My dad's been watching instructional car videos and every other video he opens is utter slop.

I'm in the room and it's SO obvious to me that a video with generated images/panning stock photos and a steady, droning narration in numbered list format is slop. Even he can tell

But for how much longer?

Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 14d

This is also the cause of the "BlueSky is boring" complaining.

BlueSky gave them the power to have more control over their content and they looked at that power and had absolutely no clue what to do with it and threw up their arms whining.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 14d

Recommender systems have quite literally broken younger folks' ability to search. I'm not kidding you, the average user is utterly incapable of finding content without a recommender feeding them things. That's why forums died but reddit survived as a social platform, because forums don't use recsys.

John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 15d

It’s frustrating LLMs are the epicenter of this because if you’re looking for a piece of tech to hate, social media recommender algorithms were *right there* and have done far, far more to break society

Tearing those down to the studs and rebuilding wouldn’t suck

⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 15d

antivax movement but it’s left coded and targets machine learning, artificial intelligence, and engineering fields

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 16d

Not can, but do!

Some of your best candidates are going to be people who know exactly how flawed the use of LLMs here are, and will see the use of LLMs here as a massive red flag for the whole company.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 18d

the tail of the y looks like it was beaten and violently contorted into that shape, damn

Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · 24d

the real postrat

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · Sep 13

Nobody seems to have mentioned the blog post yet that dropped yesterday that 'debunks' K2-Think. Turns out, it's guilty of the classic sins of train-on-test and sketchy-comparisons.

www.sri.inf.ethz.ch/blog/k2think

Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Still boggles the mind how one of the dullest and most uninspiring pieces of Harry Potter fanfiction led to where we are today.

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · Sep 4

tpot/rationalism/effective altruism family tree in case anyone is confused

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · Sep 2

absolutely incredible

credits: u/showermusicc on reddit

the virgin "AGI existential risk" vs the Chad Global Warming

Under virgin AGI existential risk:
- programmer LARP fantasy that makes coding the single most important skill for saving humanity
- fake and made up
- entirely based on thought experiments
- Zero evidence
- assumes that there's this vaguely defined concept known as "intelligence" that can be linearly increased as if it were a mathematical quantity
-projects an anthropomorphic drive toward control and power onto algorithms that just do statistics to spit out words; colonialist self-report
- sponsored by billionaires who want to make their technology seem more important than it is
- blackmails you from the future using faulty logic; doesn't actually make any sense
- "oh no, i guess we have to build the Doom Machine now. i guess the course of technological progress is inevitable, oh well"

Under "the chad global warming"
- incomprehensibly complex and interconnected polycrisis
- verified by the entire scientific community
- resists ideological simplification
- will actually kill you
- doesn't even need intelligence to threaten humanity's survival
- divine retribution for fossil capital's greed and wanton exploitation of the natural world
- reveals deep-rooted flaws with the dominant politico-economic paradigm; demands a fundamental shift of human value systems by its sheer physical existence
- billionaires don't want you to think about it because it is too scary

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · Sep 2

And ultimately, I'd rather be here than in a place where I have to fight for space with people who believe vaccines cause autism and windmills kill whales and horse injections cure all and if I want to actually be heard I have to pay someone who then uses my money to fund and support those beliefs

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · Sep 2

Most of our work is engineering and everyone knows that.

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thinking that any more than 10% of machine learning and AI research counts as 'science' is the real cope here.

psychosomatica @xenoimpulse.bsky.social · Sep 2

the entire field of machine learning and AI research is basically verboten here due to the maniac behavior of large swathes of the left, this article feels like cope

Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · Sep 1

NEW: Bluesky is becoming place to discuss scientific research - it gets more proper engagement & attention, new study finds.

For all the talk of decline - borne out by several metrics - the science community seems to have adopted Bluesky more than others.

Story: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Shadab Choudhury @namer.bsky.social · Sep 2

rip openreview

Apparently 60k+ reviews was too much to handle. Hope no one's getting desk rejected at AAAI over non-submission of revieiws.

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