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Gaël Varoquaux

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Researcher with public evidence across AI business, AI research, Compute & infrastructure.

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Research & code: Research director @inria ►Data, Health, & Computer science ►Python coder, (co)founder of scikit-learn, joblib, & @probabl.bsky.social ►Sometimes does art photography ►Physics PhD
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Super excited about our Survey with Lihu Chen on the Role of Small Models in the LLM Era This topic is crucial in today's world direct.mit.edu/coli/article...

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🧑‍💻🧑‍🏫 I'm recruiting a post-doc to work on Tabular Foundation Models, one of the hotest topics in AI, where we are at the leading edge team.inria.fr/soda/files/2... This is an opportunity to develop the next-level tabular AI, blending deep learning and tables.

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Tomorrow, I'm on the Vanishing Gradients podcast to talk about agentic science with @hugobowne.bsky.social, Shipra Arora from Bain & Company, and Luca Fiaschi from @pymc-labs.bsky.social Online live panel, with QA! 🗓️ Fri Oct 2, 1pm CEST / 7am EST ➡️ Register: numfocus-org.zoo…

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The State of Agentic Data Science: From Hype to Real-World Impact. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. numfocus-org.zoom.us
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A bit later, the AIs work around ‘Verify you are human’ checkbox www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt... All this makes me wonder: the AI industry has a disastrous culture of breaking down doors. To what point did it facilitate recent security incidents where AI experiments have…

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Frontier AI has a documented behavior of breaking third-parties' protections, eg to access newspaper articles or book: • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New... • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project... AI companies chose that agents need not respect robots.txt www.searchenginejournal.com/a…

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Modern AIs tackle different questions than data science on industry or scientific applications. Statistical thinking, front and center in data science, is often hidden in AI. But it’s just as crucial. And too often, we treat data science or AI as merely a programming exercise

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In a general-public piece, I discuss how ideas can go from a conversation with an AI tool to a mathematical proof. It leads me to wonder, how much plagiarism is there in the mathematical genius of bi AI?

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AI Safety & Industry Thinking 📖: a personal anecdote The recent cyber-security screw-ups with AI-mediated attacks on third parties reminded me of a discussion a few years ago... Story time! 👇

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