Börje Karlsson
@tellarin.bsky.social
AI researcher @ BAAI, ex-Microsoft Research, Nokia/INdT, etc. Occasional politics, opinions are my own, RTs ≠ endorsements… 🇸🇪🇧🇷🇵🇹
https://tellarin.com/borje/
https://tellarin.com/borje/
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This one's been a long time coming.
In this post on Decisions & Dragons I answer "Should we abandon RL?"
The answer is obviously no, but people ask because they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what RL is.
RL is a problem, not an approach.
www.decisionsanddragons.com/posts/should...
In this post on Decisions & Dragons I answer "Should we abandon RL?"
The answer is obviously no, but people ask because they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what RL is.
RL is a problem, not an approach.
www.decisionsanddragons.com/posts/should...
August 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This one's been a long time coming.
In this post on Decisions & Dragons I answer "Should we abandon RL?"
The answer is obviously no, but people ask because they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what RL is.
RL is a problem, not an approach.
www.decisionsanddragons.com/posts/should...
In this post on Decisions & Dragons I answer "Should we abandon RL?"
The answer is obviously no, but people ask because they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what RL is.
RL is a problem, not an approach.
www.decisionsanddragons.com/posts/should...
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love an experimental craft lager
August 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
love an experimental craft lager
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🏹 Job alert: 3 fully-funded Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowships at the @unistuttgart.bsky.social
📍 Stuttgart 🇩🇪
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/4mAFrsk
📍 Stuttgart 🇩🇪
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/4mAFrsk
Collaborative Artificial Intelligence
Our group conducts fundamental research towards collaborative artificial intelligence (CAI) at the intersection of multimodal machine learning, computational cognitive modelling, computer vision, and ...
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June 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
🏹 Job alert: 3 fully-funded Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowships at the @unistuttgart.bsky.social
📍 Stuttgart 🇩🇪
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/4mAFrsk
📍 Stuttgart 🇩🇪
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/4mAFrsk
The original SEA-VL paper has just been accepted at ACL 2025! Congratulations to all collaborators!
Phase 2 is open now.
Phase 2 is open now.
📢 Calling all SEA-passionate individuals!
SEACrowd is excited to launch our contributor call for SEA-VL Phase 2: Building Visual Language Models for Southeast Asia! 🌏
After the success of Phase 1, we're now taking on a bigger mission (see thread)👇
SEACrowd is excited to launch our contributor call for SEA-VL Phase 2: Building Visual Language Models for Southeast Asia! 🌏
After the success of Phase 1, we're now taking on a bigger mission (see thread)👇
May 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The original SEA-VL paper has just been accepted at ACL 2025! Congratulations to all collaborators!
Phase 2 is open now.
Phase 2 is open now.
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Everything is a conspiracy if you don’t know how anything works.
April 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Everything is a conspiracy if you don’t know how anything works.
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Another chapter in AI biting the hand that feeds it: Wikipedia’s bandwidth surged 50% since January thanks to AI crawlers.
Unlike search engines, they send no traffic back so no new users, no new donors. Just rising costs and a shrinking audience.
A raw deal for a cornerstone of the free web.
Unlike search engines, they send no traffic back so no new users, no new donors. Just rising costs and a shrinking audience.
A raw deal for a cornerstone of the free web.
How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
Since the beginning of 2024, the demand for the content created by the Wikimedia volunteer community – especially for the 144 million images, videos, and other files on Wikimedia Commons – has grow…
diff.wikimedia.org
April 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Another chapter in AI biting the hand that feeds it: Wikipedia’s bandwidth surged 50% since January thanks to AI crawlers.
Unlike search engines, they send no traffic back so no new users, no new donors. Just rising costs and a shrinking audience.
A raw deal for a cornerstone of the free web.
Unlike search engines, they send no traffic back so no new users, no new donors. Just rising costs and a shrinking audience.
A raw deal for a cornerstone of the free web.
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One thing I find annoying about when people talk about “the male loneliness epidemic” is that half the time, they’re actually talking about the “entitled incel epidemic” which is an entirely different problem.
April 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
One thing I find annoying about when people talk about “the male loneliness epidemic” is that half the time, they’re actually talking about the “entitled incel epidemic” which is an entirely different problem.
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Hundreds of international students in the U.S. are waking up to letters informing them that their visas have been revoked due to their campus activism or engaging with “anti-national” content on social media.
This is the very definition of a First Amendment violation.
This is the very definition of a First Amendment violation.
Hundreds of international students wake up to an email asking them to self deport for campus activism - The Times of India
US News: Hundreds of international students in the US are getting an email from the US Department of State (DOS) asking them to self-deport owing to campus act.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Hundreds of international students in the U.S. are waking up to letters informing them that their visas have been revoked due to their campus activism or engaging with “anti-national” content on social media.
This is the very definition of a First Amendment violation.
This is the very definition of a First Amendment violation.
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(this is not a suggestion or endorsement)
(this is not a suggestion or endorsement)
March 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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(this is not a suggestion or endorsement)
(this is not a suggestion or endorsement)
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We are very pleased to announce that AIIDE'25 will be back at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from November 10-14! Paper deadline June 21 AOE. Join us with your work at the intersection of AI and Digital Entertainment!
sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...
sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...
AIIDE 2025
The 21st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2025) is the next in an annual series of conferences showcasing interdisciplinary research on modeling,...
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March 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
We are very pleased to announce that AIIDE'25 will be back at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from November 10-14! Paper deadline June 21 AOE. Join us with your work at the intersection of AI and Digital Entertainment!
sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...
sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...
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This does not mean that execs should never be im the details!!
"Hire great people and get out of their way" is horrendous, disastrous advice!
You need to hire great people and create alignment. You have to be in the details together deep enough, LONG enough to do that!
"Hire great people and get out of their way" is horrendous, disastrous advice!
You need to hire great people and create alignment. You have to be in the details together deep enough, LONG enough to do that!
March 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
This does not mean that execs should never be im the details!!
"Hire great people and get out of their way" is horrendous, disastrous advice!
You need to hire great people and create alignment. You have to be in the details together deep enough, LONG enough to do that!
"Hire great people and get out of their way" is horrendous, disastrous advice!
You need to hire great people and create alignment. You have to be in the details together deep enough, LONG enough to do that!
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The resource gap across languages and cultures in AI exists well beyond natural language text.
To help address this gap and also foster collaborative research efforts, we’ve just released the SEA-VL dataset (details in 🧵).
This is only phase 1! Contributors are very welcome!
To help address this gap and also foster collaborative research efforts, we’ve just released the SEA-VL dataset (details in 🧵).
This is only phase 1! Contributors are very welcome!
SEA-VL: Building AI for Southeast Asian Research 🌏
We release SEA-VL, the largest vision-language dataset tailored for SEA’s diverse culture.
📜 arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.07920
🤗 Data: huggingface.co/collections/...
Check the thread 🧵
We release SEA-VL, the largest vision-language dataset tailored for SEA’s diverse culture.
📜 arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.07920
🤗 Data: huggingface.co/collections/...
Check the thread 🧵
March 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The resource gap across languages and cultures in AI exists well beyond natural language text.
To help address this gap and also foster collaborative research efforts, we’ve just released the SEA-VL dataset (details in 🧵).
This is only phase 1! Contributors are very welcome!
To help address this gap and also foster collaborative research efforts, we’ve just released the SEA-VL dataset (details in 🧵).
This is only phase 1! Contributors are very welcome!
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OpenAI has spent billions on a system to replicate archetypal narratives when the Digital Storytelling community surpassed that 30 years ago.
"It's got everything -- it's cheaper than humans, the noun-verb agreement is mostly right, it never comes up with an unexpected idea, and it's cheaper than humans!" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’
As tech firms battle creative industries over copyright, OpenAI chief Sam Altman says he was ‘really struck’ by product’s output
www.theguardian.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
OpenAI has spent billions on a system to replicate archetypal narratives when the Digital Storytelling community surpassed that 30 years ago.
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The erosion of trust in science & scientists — sometimes due to complex social/historical factors but often deliberately perpetrated by charlatans — has tragic, deadly consequences, and, if unchecked, is an existential threat to society.
"The vaccination has stuff we don't trust," said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died from measles at the end of last month. Tom Bartlett visited with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy:
The Texas Girl Who Died From Measles
Her father tells her story.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The erosion of trust in science & scientists — sometimes due to complex social/historical factors but often deliberately perpetrated by charlatans — has tragic, deadly consequences, and, if unchecked, is an existential threat to society.
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My Keynote Talk entitled “Dungeons and DQNs: The Serious Quest for Open Ended Role Playing Game Playing Agents” is now online.
youtu.be/EiurL9eyUNc
In which I might or might not have said “I’m working to take the ‘ick’ out of ‘agentic’”
youtu.be/EiurL9eyUNc
In which I might or might not have said “I’m working to take the ‘ick’ out of ‘agentic’”
Dungeons and DQNs: The Serious Quest for Open Ended Role Playing Game Playing Agents
YouTube video by AIIDE Conference
youtu.be
January 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
My Keynote Talk entitled “Dungeons and DQNs: The Serious Quest for Open Ended Role Playing Game Playing Agents” is now online.
youtu.be/EiurL9eyUNc
In which I might or might not have said “I’m working to take the ‘ick’ out of ‘agentic’”
youtu.be/EiurL9eyUNc
In which I might or might not have said “I’m working to take the ‘ick’ out of ‘agentic’”
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Very good news. All Nordic AI-centers from Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Danmark have signed a memorandum of understanding. It means doing AI-research together, advice governments, create start-ups and develop languagemodels
radar.dk/artikel/vil-...
radar.dk/artikel/vil-...
Vil slå Silicon Valley på AI: Nu slår de nordiske lande sig sammen | Radar
Nyt samarbejde skal lægge grunden for nordiske LLM'er og AI i verdensklasse, der kan konkurrere med Big Tech.
radar.dk
February 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Very good news. All Nordic AI-centers from Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Danmark have signed a memorandum of understanding. It means doing AI-research together, advice governments, create start-ups and develop languagemodels
radar.dk/artikel/vil-...
radar.dk/artikel/vil-...
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My stocks are red bring the DEI training back
February 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
My stocks are red bring the DEI training back
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In college I had a history prof walk into class slam a potato down & say "this is the most important entity here. There is not one person on this campus or even in this city whose significance to human history will prove to be anywhere close to that of a potato" & ykw gotta admit he was 100% right
February 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
In college I had a history prof walk into class slam a potato down & say "this is the most important entity here. There is not one person on this campus or even in this city whose significance to human history will prove to be anywhere close to that of a potato" & ykw gotta admit he was 100% right
TikTok just became the first app (that I’m aware of) to be blocked in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and the US. Interesting…
January 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
TikTok just became the first app (that I’m aware of) to be blocked in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and the US. Interesting…
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This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
“What would it take for AI evaluations to truly support our global experiences? 🌍
Our cross-institutional paper introduces INCLUDE, a multilingual LLM evaluation benchmark of local exams capturing in-language nuances & cultural context for truly localized AI evaluation.” — Cohere for AI
Our cross-institutional paper introduces INCLUDE, a multilingual LLM evaluation benchmark of local exams capturing in-language nuances & cultural context for truly localized AI evaluation.” — Cohere for AI
December 3, 2024 at 1:32 AM
“What would it take for AI evaluations to truly support our global experiences? 🌍
Our cross-institutional paper introduces INCLUDE, a multilingual LLM evaluation benchmark of local exams capturing in-language nuances & cultural context for truly localized AI evaluation.” — Cohere for AI
Our cross-institutional paper introduces INCLUDE, a multilingual LLM evaluation benchmark of local exams capturing in-language nuances & cultural context for truly localized AI evaluation.” — Cohere for AI
Same here. I raise this at every review. Also, simple QA chatbots are not agents.
let's talk about "agents" (in the LLM sense). there's a lot of buzz around "multi-agent" systems where agents collaborate but... i don't really get how it differs from a thinking of a single agent with multiple modes of operation. what are the benefits of modeling as multi-agent?
November 24, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Same here. I raise this at every review. Also, simple QA chatbots are not agents.
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From “Preserving Gaming History,” by game designer Jordan Mechner, part of the Vanishing Culture report.
Read the full report 🔗 archive.org/details/vani...
🕳️ #VanishingCulture
Read the full report 🔗 archive.org/details/vani...
🕳️ #VanishingCulture
November 21, 2024 at 2:49 PM
From “Preserving Gaming History,” by game designer Jordan Mechner, part of the Vanishing Culture report.
Read the full report 🔗 archive.org/details/vani...
🕳️ #VanishingCulture
Read the full report 🔗 archive.org/details/vani...
🕳️ #VanishingCulture