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Accelerating Culture, work & education Signal 11h ago

Trump research funding artificial intelligence

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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David Lazer Eileen Clancy 🧿 Larry Hunter Shobita Parthasarathy Dr Keith Wilson 🏳️‍🌈

“I suffered through Kratsios' answer to Science: the Endless Frontier. The NYT summary is good, but there's more to it. And I should say that I welcome improvements to the scientific enterprise (which is why I'm participating in @alondra.bsky.social and Jenn…”

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Established AI field signal Resource 17d ago
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AI Compass navigation guide resource

The AI Compass

15 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Maria Antoniak Simon Willison Brian Merchant Scott McGrath Grace Nicole Hennig Dan Greene tante +7

“not wrong! bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/”

“Source code here: github.com/bambamramfan... - try the quiz here: bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/”

4 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Grace: Did anyone else get this?
David Picard: Patron saint: Gary Marcus? Ouch! 😬🫣
Tim Duffy: I do recall one question where I wanted there to be one more extreme answer past the final option
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Primary source bambamramfan.github.io ↗
Established Agents & robotics Research 15d ago
scaling self-play end-to-end driving paper

Scaling Self-Play for End-to-End Driving

4 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Larry Hunter

“Based on something like this paper of yours? Scaling RL self-play for driving is a cool accomplishment! Do you think about how your various approaches might also be applied to humanoid robots? Any particular task seem a good fit? arxiv.org/abs/2606.19641”

4 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Eugene Vinitsky: Our stuff is out there, running on cars and seemingly doing well. Took almost 4 years to get here so it's nice to take a victory lap.
Eugene Vinitsky: It was hard! It sounded crazy for yearrrrrrrrrs
tweety fish: The car business is so fucking difficult
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Primary source arxiv.org ↗
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9 experts · 46 posts · 17d ago
Emily M. Bender Alondra Nelson Maxim Raginsky M.J. Crockett Eryk Salvaggio SE Gyges Larry Hunter Jack Stilgoe
M.J. Crockett: Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason, has long been out of print - used copies sell for hundreds of dollars. It's wild that this is not more widely available given how muc…
M.J. Crockett: Weizenbaum was an MIT computer scientist who built one of the first chatbots, ELIZA. He wrote the book out of a growing sense of horror as he saw how “extremely short exposures to a relatively simp…
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