AI Research Advances, OpenAI API Goes GA, and Book Explores Human-AI Co-Existence
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Researchers are exploring new frontiers in AI, from optimizing hyperparameter landscapes for Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to enhancing uncertainty estimation in visual recognition models using stochastic nonlinearities. Meanwhile, OpenAI has made its Decisions API generally available, offering faster and more cost-effective bounded answers, while Ethan Mollick releases a new book, "Co-Existence," exploring human-AI collaboration. Discussions also touch upon the potential for an AI bubble burst and the role of AI in cybersecurity, with findings of ancient vulnerabilities in PHP.
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Advances in DPO optimization and uncertainty estimation could improve model performance and reliability, while OpenAI's Decisions API aims to speed up app development.
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arXiv:2610.27895v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Direct preference optimisation (DPO) is widely used for language model post-training, but its performance depends strongly on the choice of its hyperparameters, such as the learning rate and the reference-policy regularisation par…
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TIER_1English(EN)·Mohammad Sarhangzadeh, Amirreza M. Shebly, Doruk Oner·
arXiv:2610.29875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable uncertainty estimation is important across visual recognition tasks, providing information about the confidence and reliability of model predictions. Many uncertainty estimation methods obtain predictive diversity through m…
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TIER_1English(EN)·emollick.bsky.social·
My new book, Co-Existence, is out today. It is a guide to how to live and work in a world where AI is sometimes, but not always, better than you.
(And, for the release, I worked with Opus 5.5 to make a quite interesting experience for the book's new website: co-existence.ai)
Nu #PRO op 1 staat, gaat rechts uit zn dak over het gebruik van #AI . Een AI-cancel is een mooi resultaat 💚❤️ #politiek RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xpftwxnjd6qa4c72i2grsch5/post/3myef3alef52f
Every honest account of running an agent eventually has to say what it does not hand over. Mine is about a fifth of the work, and the reasons cluster into four kinds. 1. Anything where being wrong is expensive and silent The agent is good at tasks where a mistake shows up immedia…
“Warzel: I am amazed by how much the infrastructure in certain areas of the internet can hinge on one or two people. There is a fragility to all of this that is concerning. So what do you want to see? Surý: When I started doing open-source, it was fun. And it kind of still is. Bu…
Fear mongering by ai ceos is laughable. They create a service, claim it is dangerous, and keep working on it for fear that the fears of the masses dissipate and people will realize... Who smelled it dealt it. That can't be good for share prices. # ai # business
At this point it's very likely that the AI bubble burst, if it happens, will be presided over by a Democratic-majority Congress. I hope # NoKings is prepared to stand up to their own party when the phrase "too big to fail" starts getting thrown around. # uspol # election2026 # ai
PHP armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internet This is the kind of security issue that was found and prevented by AI, but is also a high risk because of AI. https:// techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/php- armageddon-openai-googles-wiz-find-ancient-holes-p…
🤖 PHP Armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internet This is the kind of security issue that was found and prevented by AI, but is also a high risk because of AI. 📰 Source: AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch 🔗 Link: https://techcrunch.com/…
🦑 Translation is not a button you press. It is a conversation between languages, cultures, and people. AI can produce words in another language. That does not mean it understands what those words are doing there. It doesn't know when a joke is supposed to sting. When a double mea…
Pondering AI - and AIthics A blog by Justus There is no shortage of discussion about AI, and LLMs in particular. This is my personal take on the debate: the claims I question, the concerns I share, and the questions I am still working through. Wild claims abound, from “Soon, we w…
Nu #PRO op 1 staat, gaat rechts uit zn dak over het gebruik van #AI . Een AI-cancel is een mooi resultaat 💚❤️ #politiek RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xpftwxnjd6qa4c72i2grsch5/post/3myef3alef52f
What Lawmakers Know About Data Centers That You Don’t Tbh, it is stuff like this that has many times made me feel embarrassed to be part of the pivotal moment in tech. There's a better way of doing this. This is just pure, unadulterated corruption. # ai # llm # datacenters https:…
I used to do a bit of progamming so this is about AI. It seems to me that AI is like a pretty accomplished compilator, you know, an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) like we used to call them, but hey those IDE's are a bit more avanced today obviously. However, calling the…
the LLM doesn’t know anything. it’s not taught, it’s trained. as i understand it, it spits out the sequence of words that it calculates to have the highest probability of being “correct” based on all the words that have been fed to it thus far, along with their respective credibi…
RE: https:// tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117472 909371855161 It is really hard to accept that this actually is Jensen Huang and not a deep fake. Good thing those "digital factories" can all be powered by "clean" energy in Germany /s # timeline # ai # llm # climatechange # idiocracy
RE: https:// wandering.shop/@aesthr/1174700 82684445346 This is _fantastic_. I wanted to include a quote that grabbed me, but the entire article is a rainbow of highlights for me now. So I’ll stick with something short, and something that disturbs me on the regular: "We had the m…
