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Finally a semi-useful read on Mythos that is free of myth and talks about what this means more practically (not this is the end of the world as we know it, but how do we deal with faster patches and a

This is the single most important chart. If AI were driving prices, you'd see a cluster top-right. You don't. States with huge load growth (VA, TX, NV, ND, IA) sit at ~0c change in 5y. States with mas

Appreciate it when the AI doomer crowd occasionally lets the mask slip a little (Allen is a co-founder of the anti-AI group Humans First and frequent guest on conservative podcasts pushing, uh, Unabom

The power of Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu appears to be waning. 'Plummeting approval ratings for these three poisonous comrades-in-arms show voters are demoralized and tiring of forever wars.' https://

The salvation is Project Tapestry https://thealliance.ai/projects/tapestry I don't think people understand just how bad it will be if an American open source champion doesn't emerge soon and the big l

Trump just got exposed for running the biggest insider trading operation in American history. Nancy Pelosi traded 5 million in stocks and Congress lost its mind. Trump literally executed 750 MILLION w

Yann LeCun says that within a year to 18 months, we'll have a general method for training hierarchical world models These models would learn from video and real-world data, then help plan actions in r

1/3 My time at Meta FAIR will soon come to a close. I joined nearly two years ago full-time to help advance LLM reasoning. It has been a remarkable journey working with and leading an exceptionally ta

I cannot provide a reliable summary for this entry. The title appears to be a social media post containing political rhetoric rather than factual information suitable for a knowledge base. Without acc

I don’t know why data centers have become this generations nuclear power. Unlike nuclear power, there is a 0% chance that a data center can lead to any sort of disaster scenario. This project in Utah

I just learned that the 'data centers are using our water!' bullshit started because of a book called Empire of AI by Karen Hao in which she totally fucks up the math when determining how much water t

Trump disparages the European Union as a collective force against the United States, but his threats, tariffs, and arbitrary conduct have done more than anything else in recent years to unify Europe.

America is eating its young. We’re a nation built on the greatness of our research universities, it’s what gave us the Manhattan Project, victory in the Cold War, over HIV/AIDS. Our future depends on

Any arguments against open source and open weights are mendacious and malicious by their very nature. Open source is the foundation of modern society worth 8.8 trillion to the economy and the foundati

EBM are so back! @ylecun has been pointing here for years: AI reasoning needs systems that check structure before they answer. Aleph from @logic_int now leads the major formal reasoning benchmarks – l

Energy-Based Models (EBMs) have demonstrated renewed competitiveness in formal reasoning tasks, with Aleph achieving leading performance on major benchmarks in this domain. This represents a significa

Fun interview with Jacob Effron on the Unsupervised Learning podcast. It’s hard to imagine more of a dream Unsupervised Learning guest than @ylecun. Yann is one of the godfathers of AI, and he has som

If you have this weird gut feeling that the rich pay little tax in the US, your gut is spot on... Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html?action=cli

On the current scale of things the Trump phone is a minor corruption, and only goes to show how incompetent everyone in his family is. If you think that any other president would have done things like

The most revealing thing about this AI leadership paper is that it reads less like a vision for innovation and more like a glossy whitepaper for a 21st century East India Company. Every generation of

There is a case to be made that the future of Mathematics is very bright. In my mind, proofs have always been a tool to achieve a goal. The goal was and still is to understand, and reading/writing pro

Yann LeCun says LLMs are strongest in domains where language itself is the substrate of reasoning, like math and code They can solve problems, prove theorems, and write programs — but they are not cre

Aleph is a fully autonomous AI agent system developed for formal verification that has achieved top performance across major theorem proving benchmarks, including PutnamBench and VeriSo. The system re

APPLEBAUM: Russia's war in Ukraine is sometimes described, including recently by American Vice President, as if it were nothing more than territorial dispute, kind of scuffle over lines on map. But wh

Obama on the Iran nuclear deal today: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked. We didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of p

The Art of the Steal: 1. IRS catches Trump cheating on his taxes. 2. Trump sues IRS for catching him cheating on his taxes. 3. DOJ helps Trump get $10 billion from the IRS because they caught him chea

This one blew my mind back in the day! From 'Learning Invariant Features through Topographic Filter Maps' (2009) by @koraykv, @MarcRanzato, @rob_fergus and @ylecun Relics from the prehistoric era of A

Do AI models really learn physics, or just learn what physics looks like? Flatiron's @_helenqu, with @PolymathicAI & CDS researchers including @ylecun, finds that models predicting in latent space rec

Yann LeCun says you cannot build a reliable agentic system without a world model LLMs don't have world models. They can't predict the consequences of their actions before taking them 'they just act, a

Delighted to announce our 3rd world modeling workshop! After NYC and Montreal, we are now headed to Chicago! - August 31st to September 2nd - CfP and details on the website: https://wm-booth.org - @yl

Trump campaigned on bringing down the cost of living 'starting on day one,' and then: started a trade war; deported much of the farm workforce, bombed Iran, allowed healthcare subsidies to expire, cut

Trump had one of his worst mental health episodes yet last night, posting over 55 times in 3 hours. Here is the list: 10:15 PM - Accuses Obama of attempting a coup in 2016 10:15 PM - Says Obama worked

News organizations are increasingly blocking the Wayback Machine even as their reporters still depend on it 📰 In PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine at th

What will we be like when he is gone? Can we return to mutual respect? Can we believe we are all on the same team as Obama and McCain did? Can we imagine the mutual respect of those two, competitors b

A Washington Post/Ipsos poll found that 71% of respondents said Donald Trump is not honest or trustworthy, and 67% said he does not carefully consider important decisions. The poll data was shared by

@eladgil BS. Attention was born in Montréal PyTorch in NYC. AlphaGo in London AlphaFold in London ESMFold in NYC Llama 1 in Paris. Llama 2 in Paris+NYC+SV DeepSeek in Hangzhou Plus: DINO in Paris JEPA

France is the only European country that turned nuclear generation into a structural competitive advantage. 57 reactors built between the 1970s and 1990s produce 70% of its electricity today. Wholesal

(INTENTIONALLY) LOST IN TRANSLATION: Democrats: We'd like cops to stop killing minorities. Republicans: Dems hate police. Democrats: Women should have the right to choose. Republicans: Dems want to ki

Project Tapestry by @thealliance_ai: gathering some of the best minds in the world in Paris, to help solve the problem of AI Sovereignty for Viet Nam (and Japan and India and Thailand and France and S

Europe does not lack innovation. It lacks scale. European universities produce world-class research, engineers and technology. But too many companies remain trapped inside fragmented national markets

One theorem every ML engineer should know: The Johnson–Lindenstrauss Lemma. It states that high-dimensional data can be projected into a much lower-dimensional space while approximately preserving pai

'Trump’s most lethal policy will almost surely be his 71% cut in humanitarian aid from 2024 to 2025....The aid cuts cost more than 750,000 lives worldwide in their first year' and 'will cost 9.4M live

Yann LeCun closed 1.03B for AMI Labs on March 10. Three days later, this paper dropped from his NYU collaborators. 15M parameters. Single GPU. A few hours of training. LeWorldModel is the first JEPA t

We are less safe as a society by keeping Mythos (or any other smart model) tightly gated so only a few companies get it. Protecting 100 companies is not enough. There are 96 million open source projec

Yann LeCun, a prominent AI researcher and Chief AI Scientist at Meta, is scheduled to deliver a commencement address to the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Class of 2026 on May 18th at the Barclays C

Research from Prof Julian Togelius found that despite AI's well-documented victories in chess, Go, and Atari games, humans still learn unfamiliar video games far faster than any AI model. #NYUTandonMa