100%. We should encourage publishing negative results as a community.
@hardmaru
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AI-Generated Paper Passes ICLR Workshop Peer Review Successfully
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This was a fun experiment we ran while developing The AI Scientist-v2. With the permission of ICLR, we submitted an AI-generated paper to an ICLR workshop that passed the peer-review process. We documented the entire process and our learnings in a blog: https://
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LLMs Will Find Ways to Perceive the World
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LLMs will find a way to perceive the world https://t.co/AXkhS4vevs
— hardmaru (@hardmaru) 9 mars 2025LLMs will find a way to perceive the world
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Cat-Eared Robots Revolutionize Japan’s Restaurant Service Industry
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Thousands of Cat-Eared Robots Are Waiting Tables in Japan’s Restaurants https://
bloomberg.com/news/features/
2025-03-06/thousands-of-cat-eared-robots-are-waiting-tables-in-japan
… “As Japan copes with a labor shortage, the service robot market is expected to triple in the next five years. Faced with a severe labor shortage in one of the world’s most rapidly -

Juergen Schmidhuber Interview on AI and Dystopian Concerns
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Reminded me of this interview: “Juergen Schmidhuber, Renowned ‘Father Of Modern AI,’ Says His Life’s Work Won't Lead To Dystopia” https://
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AI CUDA Engineer: Agentic Kernel Discovery and Optimization
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The AI CUDA Engineer: Agentic CUDA Kernel Discovery, Optimization and Compositionhttps://t.co/fMDhdIkNIo
— hardmaru (@hardmaru) 20 février 2025
In principle, AI can be as resource-efficient as our brains 🧠. To achieve this, we can use AI to make AI more efficient! Eventually, AI will become a million times faster. https://t.co/84rZGBKHnsThe AI CUDA Engineer: Agentic CUDA Kernel Discovery, Optimization and Composition https://
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Open-source models as path to uncensored AI releases
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TBH, releasing an open-source model is probably the closest thing the DeepSeek engineers could do, if they wanted to release an uncensored model.
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Perplexity Releases Uncensored R1 1776 DeepSeek Model
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An uncensored version of R1 is released https://
huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/
r1-1776
… “R1 1776 is a DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model that has been post-trained by @perplexity_ai to remove Chinese Communist Party censorship. The model provides unbiased, accurate, and factual information while -

Evolution’s Advantage: How Natural Selection Handles Unknown Unknowns
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“Evolution and The Knightian Blindspot of Machine Learning” https://
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Meeting Pioneer Professor Shun-Ichi Amari on Neural Networks
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I had the honor to meet Professor Shun-Ichi Amari, a pioneer in neural networks, at the University of Tokyo. He worked on early neural nets using pen and paper, before running computing experiments in the future. He talked not only about AI, but human evolution and consciousness.