Everything we learn through apprenticeship or experience is essentially not written down.
That's most of human knowledge and all of animal knowledge.
@ylecun
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Tacit Knowledge: The Unwritten Foundation of Human Animal Learning
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Human and Animal Knowledge Beyond Written Language
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I have argued that most of human knowledge and essentially all of animal knowledge isn't written down anywhere, nor even expressible in human language.
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Remote-Operated Autonomous Vehicles: Safety and Cost Effectiveness
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Why does that matter?
The only questions are:
1. Is it safe?
2. Is it cost effective?
If remote operators have to intervene once in a while, so be it, as long as it's safer and cheaper than a human driver in the car. Historically, most AI-assisted services have used a -
Non-Sample-Contrastive Methods for JEPA Research Focus
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Essentially *all* of my own research today is on non-sample-contrastive methods for JEPA.
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US Government AI Regulation: Big Tech vs Open Source Advocates
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Both are false.
The US government is primarily concerned with 2 things: public safety and economic development. The corporations advocating for regulations are both large (Google) and small (OpenAI, Anthropic).
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Billionaire Funding for AI Extinction Risk Research Causes Unintended Damage
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There is some "academic money", but fairly small amounts.
Most of the money comes from a few billionaires worried about extinction risks.
Much of it goes to private non-profits, not universities.
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AI Fear Drives Policymakers to Enact Symbolic Regulations
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The only half-cogent argument is this: because people have become scared of AI (by fallacious arguments) policymakers have to look like they are doing something about it.
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Open-source LLMs surge: Can AI R&D regulation work?
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High-performance open-source LLMs popping up around the world.
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FSD Falls Short of Human Learning Abilities Despite Data Investment
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FSD has required enormous amounts of data, years of engineering to take care of corner cases, and the reliability is nowhere near that of a human (though it's clearly useful. I use it).
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How Do Humans Learn World Models?
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Exactly.
That's my whole point.
How do humans learn world models?