(repost welcome) The Generative Model Alignment team at IBM Research is looking for next summer interns! Two candidates for two topics

🍰Reinforcement Learning environments for LLMs

🐎Speculative and non-auto regressive generation for LLMs

interested/curious? DM or email [email protected]

Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism

youtu.be/O34BDDfXEUM

At @tuberlin.bsky.social we are running a coding study, to see the impact of a coder's background on their interactions with LLMs - and on their ultimate success in coding. Please join: umfragen.tu-berlin.de/llm_coding_s... 👩‍💻🧑‍💻#diversity (yes!)

Hm, yes, the world is changing super-fast. Somehow, I feel like we also need to get back to some of our idealistic roots, and try to make the world a better place. I hope we can manage to agree again, what a "good place" is!

So what do you think about the rationalist movement? Here's a weird and interesting article - let's discuss :)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...

Elektrotechnik und Informatik können und sollen Spaß machen - das sieht man auch in in unseren Projektlaboren. Unsere neuen Videos, zum Sommersemester '25 - sind jetzt auf YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

📢 Upcoming Abstract Submission Deadline: May 23. ⏰
2025 ITG Conference on Speech Communication, Berlin, Germany, September 24-26.

The call for papers with all info can be found here:
www.tu.berlin/qu/itg-sc-2025

Keynotes will be given by Ivan Tashev, Sarah Verhulst and Emmanuel Vincent🎉

(what I like about those (in addition to them being flight simulators ;) is the physics model, flight dynamics and all. I think that is one effortful but effective way of bringing in some solid ground-truth :)

for sure it does! Go, flight simulators!

New York Times article on #AI4ScientificDiscovery: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/t...

and yet.... calling it "twitter" still is in direct opposition to those, who'd rather have propaganda than human exchange. To those who dominate the conversation, and who get to pick the name, but not the history.

Super-proud of Wentao Yu, who very successfully defended his thesis on "Multimodal Integration in Machine Learning" at TU Berlin. The thesis shows that multimodal integration is important for many tasks, from better speech recognition to detection of hate speech and misogyny.
@tuberlin.bsky.social

Dawn Song and her team @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social are again so quick 🙏
d2jud02ci9yv69.cloudfront.net/2025-04-28-l...

Spending a few days with my best friend and her son in Austria. Out hiking today 😀

Save social media - and democracy - from undue influence of intransparent algorithms that push hostility and disinformation to maximize reach: weact.campact.de/petitions/sa...

What's happening to academic integrity and freedom of expression in the States?
Am I falling for disinformation here? #cantbereal
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

🎧 Hörtipp: Fakten statt Fiktion!
Wie beeinflusst #Desinformation unsere #Demokratie? Dr. Vera Schmitt von der #TUBerlin diskutiert bei @rbb24.de u.a. mit @alexandrageese.bsky.social über Deepfake-Erkennung & #KI- Regulierung. Jetzt reinhören ⬇️
www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/foru...
@bifold.berlin

Together with the idea that we should work towards 'uploading' our consciousness

I agree, not the proposition itself is dangerous. As long as it's just a hyothesis, and we're willing to put it to the test scientifically, that's safe & important :)
But if decisions are made, based on assuming it to be true, it's very worrisome to me. What do you think about longtermism?

And so what is your take on this? I see this as pure speculation, without a proposed way of generating evidence.
Dangerous speculation, imho, as it feeds the narrative that we'll be able to migrate to computers - so this plan may take precedence over saving life as we know it. But that's just me :)

@yuvalharari.bsky.social and Jon Kabat-Zinn on the future of #consciousness and #AI (that's my take at least): www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r5l...

🛰️ Heute Abend hebt der #Satellit InnoCube der #TUBerlin ab und schreibt #Raumfahrt- Geschichte: Er ist der 1. Satellit mit kabellosem Datenverkehr.

Den Start im Livestream mitverfolgen:
📺 www.youtube.com/live/2m-KFet...
📅 14.01.2025
⏰ 17:30 Uhr (Beginn der Übertragung)

Call for applicants - PhD students (12 positions)

“Privacy for Smart Speech Technology” (PSST) is a joint doctoral training programme and Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action.

See psst-doctoralnetwork.eu/news/call-fo...

#doctoralnetwork #openposition #phd #PSST #mariecurie

My holiday content suggestion. Such a fascinating discussion on what #LLMs should be like. Plus (sorry about the clickbait):
Hear @lexfridman.bsky.social on something 'good for the soul' (I fully agree, not that that matters ;-)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugvH...