Christopher Kanan
@chriskanan.bsky.social
AI Scientist | Professor | Techno-Optimist
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"AI doomer" media gets clicks and listens, but there is no logical reason to believe that today's frontier LLMs will "wake up" and become the terminator. The major problem is that “AGI” is an overloaded term. We should retire it: syntheticminds.substack.com/p/retiring-a...
Retiring “AGI”: Two Paths for Intelligence
Why today’s systems will transform work but will not yield human-like minds
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October 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"AI doomer" media gets clicks and listens, but there is no logical reason to believe that today's frontier LLMs will "wake up" and become the terminator. The major problem is that “AGI” is an overloaded term. We should retire it: syntheticminds.substack.com/p/retiring-a...
I was featured on the Academic Minute, which airs on over 70 radio stations around the US and Canada. In the segment, I introduce continual learning for the non-AI audience: academicminute.org/2025/02/chri...
#ai #academicminute #continuallearning
#ai #academicminute #continuallearning
Chris Kanan, University of Rochester - Can we teach AI to learn like humans? -
On University of Rochester Week: Human intelligence and artificial intelligence learn differently, but can that change? Chris Kanan, associate professor of computer science at the Hajim School of Engi...
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February 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I was featured on the Academic Minute, which airs on over 70 radio stations around the US and Canada. In the segment, I introduce continual learning for the non-AI audience: academicminute.org/2025/02/chri...
#ai #academicminute #continuallearning
#ai #academicminute #continuallearning
As a professor working at the frontiers of AI, I’ve grown increasingly concerned about the cataclysmic impact AI could have on college enrollments in the coming decades—on top of the decline already underway for other reasons.
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#HigherEducation #AI #EnrollmentCrisis
https://buff.ly/4hDInSq
#HigherEducation #AI #EnrollmentCrisis
AI & The Existential Crisis Facing Higher Education
I’ve been a professor working on the frontiers of AI for about a decade. I consider training and mentoring the next generation of engineers and scientists to be a great privilege, and I think…
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February 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
As a professor working at the frontiers of AI, I’ve grown increasingly concerned about the cataclysmic impact AI could have on college enrollments in the coming decades—on top of the decline already underway for other reasons.
https://buff.ly/4hDInSq
#HigherEducation #AI #EnrollmentCrisis
https://buff.ly/4hDInSq
#HigherEducation #AI #EnrollmentCrisis
A proposed AI bill would, based on my read (and ChatGPT's), make it illegal in the USA to download AI code or weights created by Chinese companies, universities, etc. This is catastrophically shortsighted.
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Bill: https://buff.ly/40Vyd9J
https://buff.ly/4hpjTfC
Bill: https://buff.ly/40Vyd9J
DeepSeek fallout: GOP Sen Josh Hawley seeks to cut off all US-China collaboration on AI development
This week the U.S. tech sector was routed by the Chinese launch of DeepSeek, and Sen. Josh Hawley is putting forth legislation to prevent that from happening again.
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February 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A proposed AI bill would, based on my read (and ChatGPT's), make it illegal in the USA to download AI code or weights created by Chinese companies, universities, etc. This is catastrophically shortsighted.
https://buff.ly/4hpjTfC
Bill: https://buff.ly/40Vyd9J
https://buff.ly/4hpjTfC
Bill: https://buff.ly/40Vyd9J
I can see why Microsoft stock would be impacted by this news due to their OpenAI investment, but I really don't get the others. DeepSeek used FP8 on NVIDIA's chips to get a big boost in training, among other things, but I think this fear is overblown.
January 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I can see why Microsoft stock would be impacted by this news due to their OpenAI investment, but I really don't get the others. DeepSeek used FP8 on NVIDIA's chips to get a big boost in training, among other things, but I think this fear is overblown.
The new US Export Control proposed rule for the amount of compute used to train AI systems is open for comment. I don't think it makes much sense. It puts export controls on AI models trained with over 10^26 "operations." Here is the link: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
#ai #regulation
#ai #regulation
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January 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The new US Export Control proposed rule for the amount of compute used to train AI systems is open for comment. I don't think it makes much sense. It puts export controls on AI models trained with over 10^26 "operations." Here is the link: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
#ai #regulation
#ai #regulation
I'm looking forward to visiting RIT on Friday. I'll be giving a talk on my lab's recent works on large-scale deep learning systems for continual learning and our work on using continual learning to overcome linguistic forgetting in multi-modal LLMs.
www.rit.edu/events/cogni...
www.rit.edu/events/cogni...
Cognitive Science Speaker Series | Continual Learning for Vision and Multi-Modal Large Language Models | Events | RITRIT Logo with TextRIT logoRIT logo and full name (footer)
Speaker: Christopher Kanan, Ph.D. Title: Continual Learning for Vision and Multi-Modal Large Language Models Short Bio: Christopher Kanan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Universit...
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January 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I'm looking forward to visiting RIT on Friday. I'll be giving a talk on my lab's recent works on large-scale deep learning systems for continual learning and our work on using continual learning to overcome linguistic forgetting in multi-modal LLMs.
www.rit.edu/events/cogni...
www.rit.edu/events/cogni...
We’re excited to share INSIGHT, which integrates interpretability directly into its architecture, enabling classification and weakly supervised segmentation without pixel-level annotation.
Web: zhangdylan83.github.io/ewsmia/
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2412.02012
#AI #medicalAI #radiology #pathology
Web: zhangdylan83.github.io/ewsmia/
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2412.02012
#AI #medicalAI #radiology #pathology
December 14, 2024 at 6:52 PM
We’re excited to share INSIGHT, which integrates interpretability directly into its architecture, enabling classification and weakly supervised segmentation without pixel-level annotation.
Web: zhangdylan83.github.io/ewsmia/
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2412.02012
#AI #medicalAI #radiology #pathology
Web: zhangdylan83.github.io/ewsmia/
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2412.02012
#AI #medicalAI #radiology #pathology
The Call for Papers for CoLLAs 2025, the premier venue for continual and lifelong learning research in AI is out: lifelong-ml.cc
The Abstract Deadline is Feb 21, 2025. It will be held in Philadelphia in August.
#continuallearning #deeplearning #lifelonglearning #ai #collas2025
The Abstract Deadline is Feb 21, 2025. It will be held in Philadelphia in August.
#continuallearning #deeplearning #lifelonglearning #ai #collas2025
November 16, 2024 at 3:01 PM
The Call for Papers for CoLLAs 2025, the premier venue for continual and lifelong learning research in AI is out: lifelong-ml.cc
The Abstract Deadline is Feb 21, 2025. It will be held in Philadelphia in August.
#continuallearning #deeplearning #lifelonglearning #ai #collas2025
The Abstract Deadline is Feb 21, 2025. It will be held in Philadelphia in August.
#continuallearning #deeplearning #lifelonglearning #ai #collas2025