Stefan Michaelis
@stmichaelis.bsky.social
@Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Sharing insights, news, and findings from the web
https://lamarr-institute.org/
Sharing insights, news, and findings from the web
https://lamarr-institute.org/
Recommended reading: "AprielGuard: A Guardrail for Safety and Adversarial Robustness in Modern LLM Systems" at:
AprielGuard: A Guardrail for Safety and Adversarial Robustness in Modern LLM Systems
A Blog post by ServiceNow-AI on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
December 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Recommended reading: "AprielGuard: A Guardrail for Safety and Adversarial Robustness in Modern LLM Systems" at:
News from Lamarr: "Lamarr researcher Prof. Dr. Petra Wiederkehr elected to the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)" at:
Lamarr researcher Prof. Dr. Petra Wiederkehr elected to the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) » Lamarr News
Lamarr Principal Investigator Petra Wiederkehr has been elected to Germany’s National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).
lamarr-institute.org
December 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "Lamarr researcher Prof. Dr. Petra Wiederkehr elected to the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)" at:
Recommended reading: "Benchmark Studies" at:
Benchmark Studies
It is impossible to disentangle technical innovation from technical debt
www.argmin.net
December 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Recommended reading: "Benchmark Studies" at:
Recommended reading: "True Stories from the (Data) Battlefield – Part 1: Communicating About Data" at:
True Stories from the (Data) Battlefield – Part 1: Communicating About Data
A blog about data science, statistics, and data analysis with open-source software.
methodmatters.github.io
December 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Recommended reading: "True Stories from the (Data) Battlefield – Part 1: Communicating About Data" at:
Recommended reading: "ChatGPT Is Terraforming Earth" at:
ChatGPT Is Terraforming Earth
Your ChatGPT subscription is subsidising the terraforming of Earth.Not metaphorically. China’s solar overbuild is crashing electricity prices toward zero. AI...
chrismdp.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Recommended reading: "ChatGPT Is Terraforming Earth" at:
Recommended reading: "Quoting Obie Fernandez" at:
A quote from Obie Fernandez
If the part of programming you enjoy most is the physical act of writing code, then agents will feel beside the point. You’re already where you want to be, even …
simonwillison.net
December 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Recommended reading: "Quoting Obie Fernandez" at:
Recommended reading: "The Normalization of Deviance in AI" at:
The Normalization of Deviance in AI
This thought-provoking essay from Johann Rehberger directly addresses something that I’ve been worrying about for quite a while: in the absence of any headline-grabbing examples of prompt injection...
simonwillison.net
December 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Recommended reading: "The Normalization of Deviance in AI" at:
Recommended reading: "The Slow And Dangerous Loss Of Self" at:
The Slow And Dangerous Loss Of Self
I have been telling people to use AI as a thinking partner, not a replacement for thinking. To let it interview them, surface ideas, enhance their output rat...
chrismdp.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Recommended reading: "The Slow And Dangerous Loss Of Self" at:
News from Lamarr: "RePAIR brings Pompeii’s frescoes back to life" at:
RePAIR brings Pompeii's frescoes back to life » Lamarr News
The European research project RePAIR – Reconstructing the Past combines robotics, AI, and computer vision to reconstruct ancient frescoes from Pompeii using an AI-supported method that digitally analyzes...
lamarr-institute.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "RePAIR brings Pompeii’s frescoes back to life" at:
News from Lamarr: "Award for sustainable AI research" at:
Award for sustainable AI research » Lamarr News
Award-winning research on sustainable large language models recognized by TU Dortmund for advancing energy-efficient and transparent AI systems.
lamarr-institute.org
November 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "Award for sustainable AI research" at:
News from Lamarr: "Data spaces and vertical AI: Europe’s path to digital sovereignty" at:
Data spaces and vertical AI: Europe's path to digital sovereignty » Lamarr News
Vertical AI and trusted data spaces emerge as essential pillars for Europe’s digital sovereignty, highlighted by Lamarr Institute in Paris
lamarr-institute.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "Data spaces and vertical AI: Europe’s path to digital sovereignty" at:
News from Lamarr: "New access to quantum computing" at:
New access to quantum computing » Lamarr News
Open-access textbook presenting an intuitive quantum computing introduction by bridging AI fundamentals, Hopfield networks, and practical Python examples
lamarr-institute.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "New access to quantum computing" at:
News from Lamarr: "Setting the course for European AI sovereignty" at:
Setting the course for European AI sovereignty » Lamarr News
European AI sovereignty takes center stage as the Foundation Model Workshop contributes research perspectives to the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty
lamarr-institute.org
November 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "Setting the course for European AI sovereignty" at:
News from Lamarr: "JUPITER selects first AI projects" at:
JUPITER selects first AI projects » Lamarr News
Bonn’s Lamarr Institute wins JUPITER Gauss-AI selection: Prof. Gall’s HoMe project advances generative AI, robotics, and human-motion video models.
lamarr-institute.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "JUPITER selects first AI projects" at:
News from Lamarr: "“AI – Muse or Monster?”: Lamarr Institute at the Cine Bonn Bleu Short Film Festival" at:
Lamarr Institute at the Cine Bonn Bleu Short Film Festival
Experts from design, film, and technology discussed the creative potential & ethical challenges of AI at Cine Bonn Bleu Short Film Festival moderated by Lamarr.
lamarr-institute.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "“AI – Muse or Monster?”: Lamarr Institute at the Cine Bonn Bleu Short Film Festival" at:
News from Lamarr: "RiverMamba: New AI architecture improves flood forecasting" at:
RiverMamba: New AI architecture improves flood forecasting » Lamarr News
Artificial intelligence for better disaster prevention: The new AI model “RiverMamba”, developed at the Lamarr Institute and the University of Bonn under the lead of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gall, significantly...
lamarr-institute.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "RiverMamba: New AI architecture improves flood forecasting" at:
News from Lamarr: "Lamarr Institute Engages in Scientific Exchange in Canada" at:
Delegation Visit Strenghtens AI Coopoeration
Lamarr researchers met with leading Canadian AI institutes to explore collaboration on foundation models, robotics, medicine, and responsible AI — joining forces to shape trustworthy, human-centered...
lamarr-institute.org
October 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "Lamarr Institute Engages in Scientific Exchange in Canada" at:
News from Lamarr: "“Apply, Access, Advance” – Lamarr Co-Director Stefan Wrobel on the Implementation of Germany’s Hightech Agenda" at:
Apply, Access, Advance: Lamarr on Germany’s Hightech Agenda
Lamarr Co-Director Stefan Wrobel emphasizes AI’s key role in Germany’s Hightech Agenda and the need for stronger access, collaboration, and application.
lamarr-institute.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "“Apply, Access, Advance” – Lamarr Co-Director Stefan Wrobel on the Implementation of Germany’s Hightech Agenda" at:
News from Lamarr: "New Emmy Noether Group in Bonn explores Animal Behavior through AI" at:
New Emmy Noether Group in Bonn explores Animal Behavior through AI » Lamarr News
Dr. France Rose, a researcher at the interface of biology and computer science, has been successful in the Emmy Noether Program of the German Research
lamarr-institute.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
News from Lamarr: "New Emmy Noether Group in Bonn explores Animal Behavior through AI" at:
News from Lamarr: "Chemical language models don’t need to understand chemistry" at: lamarr-institute.org/news/ai-chem...
AI in Chemistry: Learning Correlations, Not Concepts
Researchers from the Lamarr Institute and the University of Bonn show that transformer models used in chemistry learn only statistical correlations
lamarr-institute.org
October 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "Chemical language models don’t need to understand chemistry" at: lamarr-institute.org/news/ai-chem...
News from Lamarr: "Teachers Learn and Teach AI: AI4Teachers Program Launches in Rhineland-Palatinate" at:
Teachers Learn and Teach AI: AI4Teachers Program Launches in Rhineland-Palatinate » Lamarr News
Lamarr partners Fraunhofer IAIS and the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Education qualify teachers for AI in the classroom – initiative teaches application,
lamarr-institute.org
October 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "Teachers Learn and Teach AI: AI4Teachers Program Launches in Rhineland-Palatinate" at:
Recommended reading: "Acceleration is felt, velocity is ignored" at:
Acceleration is felt, velocity is ignored
On an airplane, we notice even tiny changes in acceleration (including direction) but we’re completely unaware that we’re traveling at hundreds of miles an hour. “Compared to what…
feeds.feedblitz.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Recommended reading: "Acceleration is felt, velocity is ignored" at:
News from Lamarr: "ERC Starting Grant for Lamarr-Chair Lucie Flek" at:
ERC Starting Grant for Lamarr-Chair Lucie Flek » Lamarr News
As one of three researchers at the University of Bonn – a partner institution of the Lamarr Institute – computer science professor Lucie Flek has been awarded
lamarr-institute.org
September 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
News from Lamarr: "ERC Starting Grant for Lamarr-Chair Lucie Flek" at:
Recommended reading: "Walk away or dance" at:
Walk away or dance
AI and LLMs pose a particularly visceral threat to the typing class. Writers, editors, poets, freelancers, marketing copywriters and others are voicing reasonable (and unreasonable) objections to t…
seths.blog
September 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Recommended reading: "Walk away or dance" at:
Recommended reading: "TextQuests: How Good are LLMs at Text-Based Video Games?" at:
TextQuests: How Good are LLMs at Text-Based Video Games?
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
August 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Recommended reading: "TextQuests: How Good are LLMs at Text-Based Video Games?" at: