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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · 3d

The next talk in this series is on Wednesday (8th Oct, 3pm).

It features @alicehelliwell.bsky.social from NU London and Amaritpal Singh Saini from News UK, speaking about 'The Power and Potential of Generative AI'. All welcome!

Register here (in person or online): www.fdmgroup.com/us/understan...

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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · 9d

The Computational Philosophy Lab at Northeastern University London has teamed up with FDM to deliver a series of lectures on Understanding AI. Come along, in person or online! Speakers are Alice Helliwell, David Freeborn, Ioannis Votsis, and Brian Ball.
www.fdmgroup.com/understandin...

Understanding AI Beyond the Hype | FDM Group

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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · 15d

NU London Philosopher David Freeborn (@dpwf0.bsky.social) presents work by the Computational Philosophy Lab at the Ethics and AI conference at Warsaw University of Technology. Read more about the lab's work here: cpl.sites.northeastern.edu

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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · 16d

The first talk in this series is next week (Wednesday 1st October), featuring David Freeborn @dpwf0.bsky.social from NU London and Gillian Magee from AstraZeneca, speaking about AI Ethics in Action: Mapping Responsible AI. Register below to attend in person or online!

NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · 21d

We're pleased to announce an exciting new lecture series in October, in collaboration with FDM. They feature an academic from NU London's Computational Philosophy Lab, paired up with industry specialists. Sign up to attend in person (near London Bridge) or online.

www.fdmgroup.com/understandin...

Understanding AI Beyond the Hype | FDM Group

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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · 21d

We're pleased to announce an exciting new lecture series in October, in collaboration with FDM. They feature an academic from NU London's Computational Philosophy Lab, paired up with industry specialists. Sign up to attend in person (near London Bridge) or online.

www.fdmgroup.com/understandin...

Understanding AI Beyond the Hype | FDM Group

www.fdmgroup.com

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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · 20d

Don't miss NU London philosophers Christoph Schuringa @schuringa.bsky.social and Naomi Goulder at How the Light Gets In festival this weekend at Kenwood House. They are both on a panel with Timothy Williamson and @nigelwarburton.bsky.social, on Sunday 21st.
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HowTheLightgetsIn London 2025

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David Peter Wallis Freeborn @dpwf0.bsky.social · Sep 2

I really admire the artistry of Caravaggio, but if you look carefully, you'll see that the luminance balance in his paintings can be really extreme. Some parts very dark, others so bright, making some parts of the image hard to see. We can use AI to fix the problem!

David Peter Wallis Freeborn @dpwf0.bsky.social · Sep 2

Similarly with this Van Gogh. I love the scene it depicts, but sadly due to the technical limitations of 19th century painting, the image is very distorted and unrealistic. Modern technology will allow us to bring out Van Gogh's vision in its full glory. If only he could still be around to see it!

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David Peter Wallis Freeborn @dpwf0.bsky.social · Sep 2

I love Monet, but frankly many of his paintings are really just mere impressions.

Take this sunrise over water. It's an amazing scene, but sadly Monet never had time to finish the painting. As a result the lines and colors are so drab and blurry.

With AI we can finally bring his dream to life!

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · Aug 27

one of the wildest bits of discourse, is the idea that we can just ban ai

we cannot ban ai. code is speech and you can run these models on a 4080. there's no putting this genie back in the bottle.

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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · Aug 21

More coverage of NU London philosopher Christoph Schuringa's recent book. Read below!

Christoph Schuringa @schuringa.bsky.social · Aug 6

Adam Knowles reviews A Social History of Analytic Philosophy in Radical Philosophy @radical-philosophy.bsky.social
www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/mark...

Adam Knowles · Marketplace of dull ideas (2025)

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David Peter Wallis Freeborn @dpwf0.bsky.social · Aug 23

Now officially published here:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Aug 21

It's quite funny that fairly early in its history philosophy invented writing well (Plato) and reasoning well (Aristotle) and made it clear you can only do one; subsequently clarifying that we'll typically do neither.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Aug 17

TIL the original paper describing CRISPR, by Francisco Mojica, was rejected by 4 journals and took 2 years to be published

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · Jul 27

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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David Peter Wallis Freeborn @dpwf0.bsky.social · Jul 21

My new paper has been accepted at Synthese!

I tackle an ongoing problem with the learning of compositional communication in conventional signaing games.

I build two new models to show that structured receivers can learn and retain compositional information.

philpapers.org/rec/FRECUI-2

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David Peter Wallis Freeborn @dpwf0.bsky.social · Jul 9

The distribution of the Red-billed chough is absolutely bizarre.

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David Peter Wallis Freeborn @dpwf0.bsky.social · Jul 4

Sometimes I look at my bibliographies and think... I bet these papers have never been cited together before.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Jul 1

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Natasha Jaques @natashajaques.bsky.social · Jul 1

In our latest paper, we discovered a surprising result: training LLMs with self-play reinforcement learning on zero-sum games (like poker) significantly improves performance on math and reasoning benchmarks, zero-shot. Whaaat? How does this work?

Bo Liu (Benjamin Liu) @benjamin-eecs.bsky.social · Jul 1

We're excited about self-play unlocking continuously improving agents. RL selects CoT patterns from LLMs. Games=perfect testing grounds.
SPIRAL: models learn via self-competition. Kuhn Poker → +8.7% math, +18.1 Minerva Math! 🃏
Paper: huggingface.co/papers/2506....
Code: github.com/spiral-rl/spiral

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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · Jun 26

Check out this fascinating and detailed interview with NU London's Christoph Schuringa @schuringa.bsky.social, speaking about his new book A Social History of Analytic Philosophy!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_iu...

A Social History of Analytic Philosophy (feat. Christoph Schuringa)

YouTube video by Emancipations with Daniel Tutt

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NU London Philosophers @nulondonphilos.bsky.social · Jun 25

Excited to be at Ford's innovation space in the Stratford Olympic Park, for a Conversations On AI event on how we can use AI to innovate for human benefit. The panel features NU London Philosophy's own Hossein Dabbagh, and the event series is organised by alumni from our MA Philosophy and AI

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · Jun 25

The games business is about games. If you’re in the games business, and somehow (as often happens) your company somehow is now focused on something else (AI, XR, “IP,” acquisitions, etc.) you’re in for a period of struggle. Everyone will wonder what’s wrong. But you know. It’s about games. Gameplay.

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Zoë Schiffer @zoeschiffer.bsky.social · Jun 24

Anthropic has scored a major victory in an ongoing legal battle over AI models and copyright, with big implications for the many AI lawsuits winding through the US legal system. By @knibbs.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims

While the startup has won its "fair use" argument, it potentially faces billions of dollars in damages for allegedly pirating over 7 million books to build a digital library.

www.wired.com

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Jun 17

There's no way scientists are only just now learning about grad school

Headline of an article with a picture of some cells, it reads "Scientists have discovered `third state' between life and death"

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