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I gave a viral talk recently, and @swyx asked me to put something together to explain how I did it - to help future AIE speakers and anyone who wants to learn. I am, oddly, extremely qualified to do t

Japan just had the fewest babies born in any year on record. Not since the war. Not since the 1918 flu. Since records began in 1899. 705,809 births, the tenth annual record low in a row, and they're n

There’s a bunch of conflicting stances I don’t fully understand in the debate of Proprietary RL’d vs Open Harness, Model intelligence, and Agent Labs building harnesses for bespoke tasks Not all of th

toodles from mickey mouse clubhouse was weirdly ahead of its time wake phrase: mickey mouse clubhouse launched in 2006, and “oh toodles” trained toddlers on the assistant wake phrase years before siri

There's a clay tablet with the founding charter of a 12-partner company on it. Twelve merchants pooled 33 pounds of gold to start the firm. The contract has the partner names, the starting capital, th

Why is the AI backlash growing? Outside of coding (where there is clear value), and a handful of other domains (e.g. brainstorming), Generative AI has been a net negative for society. GenAI has been u

Actual feedback we’ve gotten over the last few years: 2019: The what? For what? Why spend time on this? Maybe you should try doing something else. 2020: Why would you keep spending time on this? Will

This is a complimentary response to an article by Gary Marcus, praising his accuracy and work quality. The tweet does not provide specific details about the article's content, only that it was well-re

Yesterday, @xenovacom assembled Reachy Mini and this morning I created my first app for this new version in under an hour with Claude! Try it on your Reachy mini (or in simulation): https://huggingfac

As an avid cyclist, I was amused to see ChatGPT's “powerful new image engine' draw a bicycle with the 'brake' label pointing to empty space where brakes are sometimes found on other bicycles. The poin

Dylan Patel expressed surprise and admiration that a cofounder's birthday was known by another person, calling it an impressive detail or insight ('alpha'). The post appears to be from a casual social

Wow. Musk’s lawyers will capitalize on this. 🚨 Microsoft's lawyer just told the jury Microsoft 'knew nothing'. OpenAI's non-profit board approved all funding, every step of the way and Microsoft did i

AI-native software engineering teams operate very differently than traditional teams. The obvious difference is that AI-native teams use coding agents to build products much faster, but this leads to

Yann LeCun shared a compilation demonstrating that Donald Trump has frequently labeled his political opponents as fascists, countering claims that calling Trump a fascist incites violence by showing s

I don’t always agree with @ElonMusk. I often disagree. Sometimes loudly. But he’s basically right here, as far I can see. Scam Altman and Greg Stockman stole a charity. Full stop. Greg got tens of bil

@robertskmiles @GaryMarcus “fails less often than a human does” is a terrible metric. We build deterministic software and test it to destruction to ensure it’s 99.99999 reliable . That’s been the basi

The 2020 US election was audited on a massive scale. Researchers examined audit results from 856 jurisdictions across 27 states, covering over 71 million votes. The audits found the net error rate in

Gary Marcus made a critical commentary on Sam Altman's priorities, using a pun on 'AGI' (Artificial General Intelligence) to suggest that Altman's actual focus is on 'Adjusted Gross Income' rather tha

The question of whether Altman and Brockman did what they promised ≠ the question of whether Elon is a good person. Musk argued that Altman and Brockman broke promises and abused the notion of a nonpr

This is totally wrong. Blaming the user is missing the point that (a) coding agents have been overhyped and (b) can’t reliably obey the rules given to them in system prompts and other guardrails. Sorr

Clem Delangue argues that the United States should increase investment and policy support for open source AI models to maintain competitive advantage and reduce dependence on proprietary systems contr

SpaceX successfully deployed 25 Starlink satellites into orbit, as confirmed by Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter). This deployment is part of SpaceX's ongoing effort to expand the Starlink satellite i

HealthBench Professional, our new evaluation of clinician chat tasks, is now available on HuggingFace for easy access. Each example was written, reviewed, and adjudicated by three or more physicians.

Clem Delangue, co-founder of Hugging Face, shared a positive comment about the machine learning internship experience at Hugging Face, suggesting the internship program is engaging and enjoyable for p

In other words, you need the world models that LeCun, Schmidhuber, Fei Fei Li, and I have been advocating for all along. Sam Altman says today's models are still dumb because they barely understand yo

No, the top score if you didn't account for action efficiency would be 100%, achievable with 20 lines of Python. All you need is to brute-force the state space. Please stop spreading complete disinfor

Software engineering legend @Grady_Booch re Dario: I think that @DarioAmodei does not understand software engineering and that he is working feverishly to pump up the valuation of his company in antic

The road to making life multiplanetary starts right here in Starbase. Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new t

Gary Marcus, a prominent AI researcher and critic, expressed frustration that concerns he has been publicly raising about AI for approximately a decade are now receiving mainstream attention as breaki

Gary Marcus highlights a success or advancement in neurosymbolic AI, an approach that combines neural networks with symbolic reasoning systems. Neurosymbolic AI aims to leverage the pattern-recognitio

Hamming's talk is so important that I reproduced it on my site. It's one of the only things on my site written by someone else. https://paulgraham.com/hamming.html A mathematician who shared an office

This post discusses the need for built-in speech-to-text (STT) and text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities in a product or platform (likely referring to Hugging Face's platform based on the mention of Clem

Clem Delangue expressed his personal motivation for continuing work in the open-source space, stating that enjoyment is his primary driver for persisting in the field. He also expressed confidence tha

A few weeks ago, I was forwarded an email from a journalist named “Michael Chen,” asking for comment on an AI bill in Tennessee. All signs suggest Michael Chen is not a real person, and the publicatio

And the more distributed and open-source AI will be, the more jobs and wealth it will create! I have changed my mind on how AI will impact jobs in America. Previously, I believed AI would replace many

Hugging Face offers a $9 Pro account subscription that provides significant value compared to other developer tool subscriptions. According to Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, this pricing tier rep

sorry everyone, we're working on being able to allow more concurrent workloads! Was about to take a jab at understanding CSA and HCA with ML-intern at Hugging Face, @huggingface please upgrade the int

SpaceX's Starship is claimed to be the most powerful moving object ever created, referring to its exceptional thrust capabilities and payload capacity as the world's most powerful operational rocket s

We just raised 30M at a 500M valuation, bringing our total funding to $47M. Led by @craft_ventures , with @PaceCap , @chemistry , TruArrow, and others. But before anything else: this belongs to the co

5B tokens in ml-intern in 48h 😅😅😅 we burned through 5 billion tokens in 48h. turns out giving everyone unlimited access to the most expensive model on the planet is not a great business strategy 🙈 So

Hugging Face's CEO Clem Delangue expressed optimism about the impact of the company's machine learning internship program, suggesting it will grow significantly in scale or influence. The post indicat

In the past 55 days, the president of the US has averaged about 20 social media posts a day, ranging from Bruce Lee videos to AI content of him beating up Canadians. To highlight this man's increasing

Starlink announced the availability of high-speed satellite internet service in specific areas, promoting download speeds of 400+ Mbps suitable for streaming video and remote work. The post was made b

In the 1960s, French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet used an IBM 7040 computer and punch cards to create the first simulated image of a black hole, which was then hand-plotted on paper. This ground

I can't verify this claim as it appears to be from a social media post, and there's no reliable reporting I can confirm about such an incident. The URL format and post characteristics suggest this may

SpaceX conducted a Falcon 9 rocket launch from California carrying 24 Starlink satellites to orbit. Elon Musk shared this launch event on X, likely providing live coverage or updates of the mission. T