NYU is clearly where AI professors want to be.
Open faculty positions in AI at NYU.
@ylecun
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NYU Attracts Top AI Faculty with Open Positions
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Knowledge Versus Understanding: Adaptation and Cognitive Plasticity
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Knowledge is not understanding.
Reminds me of the folks who have tried wearing prism glasses that invert the world.
They get used to it after a few weeks of practice.
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Facebook Research and PyTorch Developments in AI
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Saclay: STEM Hub with Cost Advantages Over Paris
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Saclay has a high concentration of STEM schools/universities and public research labs.
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Learning World Models Beyond PID Controller Tuning
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It's a *lot* more than adjusting the coefficients of your PID controllers.
Building a model of your own dynamics is acquiring a kind of knowledge, but it's relatively simple.
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France Emerges as Europe’s Top VC Investment Destination
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Some have even moved their HQ from the US to Paris.
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Open Source AI Accelerator Launched at Station F
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Open source AI is the way to go! Proud to see @huggingface
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This will help concretize our common vision of an open and collaborative AI ecosystem. More from TechCrunch: -
Open Source AI Acceleration Program Launches at Station F
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L’IA open source est la voie à suivre ! Je suis fier de voir @huggingface
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AI Timestamps Disinformation: Assessing Credibility Threats
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Should we be impressed that it can slap timestamps on complete nonsense disinformation like Tucker Carlson videos ?
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Knowledge in Execution: Learning Without Language
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The point is that there is a *huge* amount of knowledge in the execution.
Arguably, almost *all* the knowledge is in the execution.
Animals learn to execute complex actions as quickly as humans without the help of language. So whatever knowledge in contained in language must be