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Dorothea Kolossa
@dorotheakolossa.bsky.social
Here for the science, politics, fun, dialogs, debates.
Also into human-centered technologies, teaching @ TU Berlin, and wondering where we're all going from here... happy to conspire 4 democracy & DEI any time!
Reposted by Dorothea Kolossa
(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 ramon.astudillo@ibm.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Reposted by Dorothea Kolossa
Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism

youtu.be/O34BDDfXEUM
Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism
YouTube video by Knut Jägersberg
youtu.be
October 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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!)
Solve Coding Tasks with an LLM
umfragen.tu-berlin.de
September 23, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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...
The Rise of Silicon Valley’s Techno-Religion
www.nytimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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...
Student projects @ mtec - YouTube
These videos show the final presentations of student project labs done at mtec. They were prepared and presented in either the "Projekt Elektronik" or the "P...
www.youtube.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
📢 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🎉
May 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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
March 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Spending a few days with my best friend and her son in Austria. Out hiking today 😀
March 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Save social media - and democracy - from undue influence of intransparent algorithms that push hostility and disinformation to maximize reach: weact.campact.de/petitions/sa...
Soziale Netzwerke als demokratische Kraft retten
Rund 100 Akteur*innen aus Kultur, Wirtschaft und Medien haben sich zur Initiative Save Social zusammengetan. [1] Gemeinsam schlagen sie zehn konkrete Schritte vor, um das Internet von der Dominanz ...
weact.campact.de
February 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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/...
CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material
Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ+ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Reposted by Dorothea Kolossa
🎧 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
Podcast: Fakten statt Fiktion - Gemeinsam gegen Desinformation
Verschiedene Formen von Desinformationen wie Fake News, manipulierte Videos und Deepfakes stellen unsere Demokratie vor neue Herausforderungen. Jörg Thadeusz begrüßt seine Gäste zur Podiumsdiskussion.
www.ardaudiothek.de
January 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
@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...
Jon Kabat-Zinn & Yuval Noah Harari In Conversation
YouTube video by Yuval Noah Harari
www.youtube.com
January 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Reposted by Dorothea Kolossa
🛰️ 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)
January 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Reposted by Dorothea Kolossa
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
Call for applications - PhD students (12 positions) - Privacy for Smart Speech Technology
“Privacy for Smart Speech Technology” (PSST) is a joint doctoral training programme and Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, the European Union’s flagship funding programme for doctoral train...
psst-doctoralnetwork.eu
December 10, 2024 at 12:20 PM
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...
Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #452
YouTube video by Lex Fridman
www.youtube.com
December 26, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Very interesting takeaways from consciousness theories for AI system design:
Practical Consciousness Theory for AI System Design

huggingface.co/blog/KnutJae...
December 5, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Wie hilft KI beim Faktenchecken? Event am Dienstag, 10.12., an der @TUBerlin: www.tu.berlin/nachrichtend...
Einladung: Wie hilft KI beim Faktenchecken?
Vor dem anstehenden Wahlkampf geben Forscher*innen Einblick ins Faktenchecken mit KI und ihre Projekte mit Medien und Bürger*innen am Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2024, um 17 Uhr im Audimax der TU Berlin
www.tu.berlin
December 2, 2024 at 4:20 PM
so happy to be here, migrated from twitter, among what feels like a crowd of mostly sane people and regular nerds like me🥳
November 30, 2024 at 5:05 PM