Nice segment on CBS about AI research for the 10th anniversary of Meta's Fundamental AI Research lab (FAIR): the necessity of open research, AI risks and benefits, the future, AI assistants and domestic robots.
@ylecun
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Lisp-to-C Compiler: Homoiconicity and Language Integration
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I asked Ronan once. He just decided to use odd numbers after the failure of Torch4. Lush was actually pretty awesome, Thanks to some of Léon's magic. It had a Lisp-to-C compiler that allowed to intersperse Lisp and C in a single function.
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Ronan’s Torch Framework Evolution From PhD to NEC Labs
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Here is the full history in all its gory details. Ronan developed Torch3 during his PhD at IDIAP.
He then developed Torch4 in 2004, but quickly abandoned it. In 2006, he started Torch5, and completed it while at NEC Labs. This was written in C (Ronan positively hated C++ at the -
Meta FAIR and AI Research Organization Structure Changes
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It's still called Meta FAIR, as in "Fundamental AI Research." Meta AI was the name of the umbrella AI R&D organization that included FAIR and several engineering divisions between 2018 and 2022. But the AI engineering organizations were moved closer to product groups, and Meta
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AI Interview: Benefits, Risks, and Making Us Smarter
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In-depth interview on CBS Saturday Morning with Brook Silva-Braga, where we discuss the present and future of AI, the benefits and the risks.
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We are hiring in AI sector
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Planning Methods and World Models for Robotic Grasping Tasks
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As I have argued, the winning combination would be planning-based methods using trained world models.
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Mistral co-founders shaped by FAIR-Paris open research culture
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Two of the three co-founders of Mistral did their PhD in residence at FAIR-Paris and worked there as research scientists for a few years before founding Mistral.
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Open Source AI History Before Llama and PyTorch
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Open source AI didn't start with Llama, nor with PyTorch.
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Facebook’s Open Source DNA: Research Lab Publishing Strategy
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I played a role, but open sourcing was already in the DNA of Facebook.
My first question to Mark and Mike "Schrep" Schroepfer (CTO) before I joined was that a research lab needs to publish papers, data, and open source code. Will we be able to do that?
Their answer was: "You