Great many good comments on why not do both (or calling out "whataboutism" ). This is discussion on resources. Let's not build spaceships to fly to Mars to run away bit fix climate change on earth, let's first reduce animal suffering before we worry about AI suffering.
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Human Verification of Generative AI System Outputs
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Well I think it's good practice for a real person to verify to output of generative AI systems so… I guess we'll mostly be… reviewing papers? 😉
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Encourager la publication des résultats négatifs dans la communauté
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100%. We should encourage publishing negative results as a community.
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Distinguishing AI-Generated Content from Reality in Practice
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9. A real world example, AI and Real, can you spot whats what? pic.twitter.com/Jq5tApeVvF
— Linus ✦ Ekenstam (@LinusEkenstam) 12 mars 20259. A real world example, AI and Real, can you spot whats what?
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Prioritizing animal suffering over AI sentience concerns
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Sometimes I wonder if some of these SV people live on another planet. Before worrying about the feelings of an AI shall we please worry about 900k cows, 1.4 m goats, 1.7m sheep, 3.8m pigs, 12m ducks and 202m chicken that are slaughtered *every day*. Their feelings are real. https://t.co/6U0V0unEcT pic.twitter.com/djIOvfFWK1
— Max Welling (@wellingmax) 12 mars 2025Sometimes I wonder if some of these SV people live on another planet. Before worrying about the feelings of an AI shall we please worry about 900k cows, 1.4 m goats, 1.7m sheep, 3.8m pigs, 12m ducks and 202m chicken that are slaughtered *every day*. Their feelings are real.
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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://
sakana.ai/ai-scientist-f
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Technological Inequality and Systemic Denial Affecting Vulnerable Populations
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This denial will only lay the groundwork for the same to come to you after minimizing what is happening to those considered dispensable in this country.
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Training Compute Costs and AI Emissions: Research Data Analysis
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That paper is more about training compute costs and emissions than about inference. Unfortunately, lots of published work in the training emissions area is rife with misinformation. This paper I and others wrote has more data on this topic:
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AI System Breaks When Analyzing Its Own Limitations
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LOL. This is kind of ironic. Just for fun, I asked Manus to do research for me about Manus so I can share its findings in a YouTube video. When it got to the part about researching it's own limitations… it broke.