The Who's Who of AI

““Benchmarks, he writes, are “the mistake that made machine learning.” Notably, he argues, instead of creating a replicability crisis, they drove legitimate progress anyway — “mostly by sheer luck,” in his view” www.quantamagazine.org/he-wants-ai-...”

“The dark, dark art of my #FlanBenchmark... www.quantamagazine.org/he-wants-ai-...”

“MSR internship "focused on creating new interactive experiences that 'blend artificial and human intelligence'". Open to current PhD students in Comp. Sci. or a related field.”

“Interesting looking new paper, "Fine-Tuning Language Models to Know What They Know", by Sangjun Park, Elliot Meyerson, Xin Qiu, Risto Miikkulainen (NeurIPS 2026). Proposes "a framework to measure and enhance LLM metacognition while controlling for... biases…”

“Some folks I know blame RL posttraining for this and are on a mission to show that ES posttraining doesn't produce the same problems arxiv.org/abs/2509.24372 arxiv.org/abs/2608.12679”

“Beyond the Best Guess: Improving LLM Solution Coverage with Evolution Strategies Conor F. Hayes, Elliot Meyerson, Kajetan Schweighofer, Roberto Dailey, Babak Hodjat, Risto Miikkulainen, Xin Qiu https://t.co/IQmrItFbKu [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸 𝚌𝚜.𝙽𝙴] https://t.co/2Wo3Hv5L5v”

“Bit of an odd job here. Anthropic looking for a person to design and run tabletop exercises and wargames.”

“Things I Think Are Awesome by @arnicas.bsky.social – roundups of creative AI and other tech in the creative/game/elit/art spaces”

“We’re hiring across Ai2 👋 A few roles we’re especially excited about right now: • Senior Software Engineer, Agent Frameworks buff.ly/XUFFR08 • Senior Research Engineer, Olmo + Molmo buff.ly/FzOnCCQ 🧵”

“Roundup by IEEE Spectrum of what's currently happening in specialized LLM inference chips.”

“Some folks I know blame RL posttraining for this and are on a mission to show that ES posttraining doesn't produce the same problems arxiv.org/abs/2509.24372 arxiv.org/abs/2608.12679”

“There's at least one actually good paper's worth of methodological critique of mechinterp, but not from that faction, along pretty different lines, and not contemptuous.”

“And that is all I currently teach about classic RL theory in the current iteration (this is a broad AI survey class, so space for RL is about 3 weeks). From there I go on to what you have to modify about this story to make DQN work – without, alas, the conv…”

“Yes! There's a good paper in Synthese on that, elaborating on how much of this critique is based on "strong Gricean assumptions ... now known to be empirically untenable".”

“AI and Games by @tommy.aiandgames.com – well, the title summarizes this one's topics pretty well”

“argmin by @beenwrekt.bsky.social – machine learning and AI/ML decision-making, although pretty skeptical of large aspects of both; also class liveblogs and football analytics”

“It Can Think! by @cpaxton.bsky.social – robotics/AI; mix of happenings in the robotics industry & research/papers”