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Christoph Heilig @christophheilig.bsky.social · Aug 26

1/8 🧵 GPT-5's storytelling problems reveal a deeper AI safety issue. I've been testing its creative writing capabilities, and the results are concerning - not just for literature, but for AI development more broadly. 🚨

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Bonan Zhao (赵博囡) @bonan.bsky.social · Aug 17

My Lab at the University of Edinburgh🇬🇧 has funded PhD positions for this cycle!

We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate.

It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations.

Spread the words!

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Nicolas Dufour @nicolasdufour.bsky.social · Aug 18

🚀 DinoV3 just became the new go-to backbone for geoloc!
It outperforms CLIP-like models (SigLip2, finetuned StreetCLIP)… and that’s shocking 🤯
Why? CLIP models have an innate advantage — they literally learn place names + images. DinoV3 doesn’t.

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halvarflake.bsky.social @halvarflake.bsky.social · Jul 7

I wrote a short rant about what irks me when people anthropomorphize LLMs:

addxorrol.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-no...

A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs

In many discussions where questions of "alignment" or "AI safety" crop up, I am baffled by seriously intelligent people imbuing almost magic...

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Desmond Elliott @delliott.bsky.social · Jul 7

📢I am hiring a Postdoc to work on post-training methods for low-resource languages. Apply by August 15 employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho....
Let's talk at #ACL2025NLP in Vienna if you want to know more about the position and life in Denmark.

Postdoc in Natural Language Processing

employment.ku.dk

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Jun 25

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance

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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature

An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.

www.nature.com

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Jun 15

"Researching and reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing."

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Jun 14

Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability
open.substack.com/pub/rcsc/p/c...

Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability

How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas?

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Stella Frank @scfrank.bsky.social · Jun 17

Fallacy of the Day:
Calling two different things by the same name doesn't make them the same (jingle) and calling the same thing by different names doesn't make them different (jangle)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle-...

(this is going to be so useful for reviewing)

Jingle-jangle fallacies - Wikipedia

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Stella Frank @scfrank.bsky.social · Jun 13

Seeing What Tastes Good: Revisiting Multimodal Distributional Semantics in the Billion Parameter Era

Human learning and conceptual representation is grounded in sensorimotor experience, in contrast to state-of-the-art foundation models. In this paper, we investigate how well such large-scale models, ...

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Stella Frank @scfrank.bsky.social · Jun 13

Sad not to be there in person but this work will also be presented at ACL in Vienna 2025 - see you there!

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Stella Frank @scfrank.bsky.social · Jun 13

📯 Best Paper Award at CVPR workshop on Visual concepts for our (@doneata.bsky.social + @delliott.bsky.social) paper on probing vision/lang/ vision+lang models for semantic norms!

TLDR: SSL vision models (swinV2, dinoV2) are surprisingly similar to LLM & VLMs even w/o lang 👀
arxiv.org/abs/2506.03994

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Srishti @srishtiy.bsky.social · Jun 2

I am excited to announce our latest work 🎉 "Cultural Evaluations of Vision-Language Models Have a Lot to Learn from Cultural Theory". We review recent works on culture in VLMs and argue for deeper grounding in cultural theory to enable more inclusive evaluations.

Paper 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22793

Paper title "Cultural Evaluations of Vision-Language Models
Have a Lot to Learn from Cultural Theory"

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Jun 2

Check out our new paper led by @srishtiy.bsky.social and @nolauren.bsky.social! This work brings together computer vision, cultural theory, semiotics, and visual studies to provide new tools and perspectives for the study of ~culture~ in VLMs.

Srishti @srishtiy.bsky.social · Jun 2

I am excited to announce our latest work 🎉 "Cultural Evaluations of Vision-Language Models Have a Lot to Learn from Cultural Theory". We review recent works on culture in VLMs and argue for deeper grounding in cultural theory to enable more inclusive evaluations.

Paper 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22793

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kyunghyuncho.bsky.social @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social · May 20

as an extra take-away, this implies that our eval tends to be overly precision focused. we should really think of what we lose in terms of recalls, as this directly relates to what we miss out for whom when we build these large-scale, general-purpose models.

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Cohere Labs @cohereforai.bsky.social · Apr 10

🚀 We are excited to introduce Kaleidoscope, the largest culturally-authentic exam benchmark.

📌 Most VLM benchmarks are English-centric or rely on translations—missing linguistic & cultural nuance. Kaleidoscope expands in-language multilingual 🌎 & multimodal 👀 VLMs evaluation

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Lazaros Nalpantidis @lanalpa.bsky.social · Apr 11

Join us and revolutionize Life Science Lab Automation! 🎓🤖💉

I am hiring a Postdoc in Robotics and Computer Vision for Life Science Laboratory Automation, in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Is that you? 🙋‍♀️
efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoc in Robotics and Computer Vision for Life Science Laboratory Automation - DTU Electro

As part of a joint research collaboration between DTU and Novo Nordisk, we are looking for a postdoc to join our multidisciplinary research program focusing on the interplay between AI-Protein design,...

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Stella Frank @scfrank.bsky.social · Apr 10

Yes! It's the monolithic nature of the single value system that is the target of alignment that's so problematic. (But then we also have to agree to be ok with models that generate content that we as individuals are extremely un-aligned with, right?)

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Isra Salazar @israsalazar.bsky.social · Apr 10

Today we are releasing Kaleidoscope 🎉

A comprehensive multimodal & multilingual benchmark for VLMs! It contains real questions from exams in different languages.

🌍 20,911 questions and 18 languages
📚 14 subjects (STEM → Humanities)
📸 55% multimodal questions

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Stella Frank @scfrank.bsky.social · Apr 10

The Panopticon is amazing! and thanks for this thread - my libby holds list just got a bit longer :-)

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Marcel Binz @marcelbinz.bsky.social · Apr 9

We are looking for two PhD students at our institute in Munich.

Both postions are open-topic, so anything between cognitive science and machine learning is possible.

More information: hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf

Feel free to share broadly!

hcai-munich.com

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VLMs4All - CVPR 2025 Workshop @vlms4all.bsky.social · Mar 14

📢Excited to announce our upcoming workshop - Vision Language Models For All: Building Geo-Diverse and Culturally Aware Vision-Language Models (VLMs-4-All) @CVPR 2025!
🌐 sites.google.com/view/vlms4all

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FGVC Workshop @fgvcworkshop.bsky.social · Apr 9

BirdCLEF25: Audio-based species identification focused on birds, amphibians, mammals, and insects in Colombia.
👉 www.kaggle.com/competitions...
@cvprconference.bsky.social @kaggle.com
#FGVC #CVPR #CVPR2025 #LifeCLEF
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Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · Apr 9

Thanks to these insects, we can now study environmental microplastics retrospectively. 🔍 Even before Duprat began his now famous experiments with caddisfly larvae, insects in the wild were already experimenting with plastic... 🐛 14/x

Above: Casing of Ironoquia dubia (RMNH.INS.1544419) collected on May 18th 1971 in Loenen, The Netherlands. b) The label of the specimen. Depicted on the right: detail of the artificial items. Photographs: overview: Auke-Florian Hiemstra, details: Pasquale Ciliberti. Below: Caddisfly larvae in the studio of Hubert Duprat, carrying cases made from mostly gold. © Hubert Duprat, adagp, 2024, Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris, Photo F. Delpech.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · Apr 2

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers.

AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege

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