Small world! I love using PyTorch, but ultimately, it's "just" the tool to get your models implemented :). I taught a lot of PyTorch back then (kind of as a a side project) to help get people started! (Unfortunately, I am currently not mentoring PhD students anymore as I left
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AI4ALL 2025 Summer Program Opens for High School Students
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The application for the AI4ALL 2025 summer program ends tomorrow. Help us connect with underrepresented high school students who have a strong interest in learning about AI through lectures, hands-on research projects, and mentoring activities. Learn more: https://
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Fundamental Skills Remain Valuable in the AI Era
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One interesting(and positive) thing about current AI landscape is “fundamental skills” will always be valuable. What you get off generative AI tools is a limit of what you can ask, and your ask largely depends on your base knowledge. Some problems will not require anything extra
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Stanford OVAL Creates Public AI Assistant for Researchers
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Discover how @StanfordOVAL is creating a public AI assistant that aims to enhance the productivity of researchers, journalists, and historians. Watch the livestream of their workshop on February 13 by signing up here: https://
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Humanity’s Last Exam: No AI model scores above 10%
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Examples from Humanity’s Last Exam, designed by CAIS & Scale to be the *final* broad-subject, closed-end Q&A exam for LLMs written by humans. Today, no model scores above 10%. This is how hard a test has to be for frontier AI to score that low — in Classics, Ecology, and C.S.:
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Google Research Scholar Program Opens for Early-Career Professors
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Applications for the 2025 Research Scholar program, which aims to strengthen long-term collaboration with the academic community by supporting early-career professors, close soon. Learn more and apply by Jan 27, 11:59PM UTC-12 →
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Abraham Project: Early Technological Components for Artificial Being
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In the early years of Abraham, the project functioned as a kind of intermittent study of the technological components that could help create such a being. I wrote about the concept extensively and ran a workshop series on it from 2019-20, including a 6-week class I recorded at
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France Education Crisis: Inflation of Indispensable Standards Hurts PISA Rankings
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À force de tout déclarer indispensable, plus rien n’est indispensable. Et à la fin, la France dégringole dans les classements PISA.
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AI Tutors: Patient, Broad, Deep Collaborative Learning
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This intuitively makes sense right? The fact that you can interact with an AI tutor in a way that you can’t with a human tutor – collaborating, asking for explanations, simplifications, clarifications – and your tutor will never get impatient, and has much more broader and deeper
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AI Predicts Career Path and Evaluates Academic Thesis
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Quite funny to ask it to predict my future career (pretty accurately I must say!), or to roast the thesis (Q_Q).