Yann LeCun

A nice piece by @AndrewYNg arguing that irrational fears about AI should not cause governments to regulate open source AI models out of existence.

Make-A-Scene! An *interactive* and *controllable* image generation system that produces a nice picture from a text description and a rough sketch. Paper here:

Interesting piece on the debate in academia about the effects of social media on society, polarization,.. Haidt vs Gail vs Gentzkow vs Tucker. TL;DR: it's complicated. Different studies reach opposite conclusions. The common narrative is probably wrong.

It's a very nice overview paper. Indeed, my proposal is aligned with many of the conditions you state in the paper. Just in time for me to cite it 😀!

Awesome work from @JeanRemiKing and team shows that activities in the layer hierarchy of a transformer trained with Self-Supervised Learning on speech and audio correlates well with activities of the hierarchy of areas on the human auditory cortex.

Very nice and fascinating work!

Nice thread on the perception of neural nets by the AI community over 4 decades.

Interesting paper on the reasons for the increasing dominance of American research universities iver the 20th century. TL;DR: tenure and competition for talents. [But I would argue that many European countries have better undergraduate education systems]

Nice article at Vice that give the gist of my recent proposal for autnomous AI architectures. It derives from my collquium talk at UC Berkeley last week.

Anyone interested in the ethical issues surrounding copyright and IP should read "Free Culture" by Lawrence Lessig.

Anyone interested by the real ethical issues around copyright and IP should read "free culture" by Lawrence Lessig.

A thread with some more info on FAIR's No Language Left Behind project (if you don't feel like reading the 190-page paper).