“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...

I would put this even more strongly: open source AI is probably our only realistic chance to avoid a terrifying increase in concentration of power. I do not want to live in a world where the people with all the money also have all the intellectual power.

NeurIPS Test of Time Awards:

Generative Adversarial Nets
Ian Goodfellow, Jean Pouget-Abadie, Mehdi Mirza, Bing Xu, David Warde-Farley, Sherjil Ozair, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio

Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks
Ilya Sutskever, Oriol Vinyals, Quoc V. Le

I’ve started an AI in healthcare starter pack! Let me know who is missing. go.bsky.app/7PeNwep

Here’s the updated Computational Biology Starter Pack! Let me know if you'd like to be included.

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Small yet mighty! 💫

We are releasing SmolVLM: a new 2B small vision language made for on-device use, fine-tunable on consumer GPU, immensely memory efficient 🤠

We release three checkpoints under Apache 2.0: SmolVLM-Instruct, SmolVLM-Synthetic and SmolVLM-Base huggingface.co/collections/...

🚨 NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight
Did you know we lack standards for AI benchmarks, despite their role in tracking progress, comparing models, and shaping policy? 🤯 Enter BetterBench–our framework with 46 criteria to assess benchmark quality: betterbench.stanford.edu 1/x

Alibaba has their own version on GPT-o1. This might be the best description of “o1-type”systems so far arxiv.org/abs/2411.14405

Once the publishers do this + move their journal accounts here, it’s officially game over for academic X. Editors, please encourage your journals to open accounts here. Nature is already here…