Dimitri Coelho Mollo
@dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy
Assistant Professor in Philosophy of AI at Umeå University, working on and at the foundations of the sciences of mind and cognition.
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Upcoming online-also talk on chatbots this Friday!
Who: Merel Semeijn (Groningen)
What: *Botspeech? Bullshit!* -- on mental fictionalism applied to LLMs and 'uncaring users'
When: Friday, Oct 17th, 12.15-13.00 CEST
Where: Online and on-campus at Umeå University, as part of our AI centre's talk […]
Who: Merel Semeijn (Groningen)
What: *Botspeech? Bullshit!* -- on mental fictionalism applied to LLMs and 'uncaring users'
When: Friday, Oct 17th, 12.15-13.00 CEST
Where: Online and on-campus at Umeå University, as part of our AI centre's talk […]
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social.sunet.se
October 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Upcoming online-also talk on chatbots this Friday!
Who: Merel Semeijn (Groningen)
What: *Botspeech? Bullshit!* -- on mental fictionalism applied to LLMs and 'uncaring users'
When: Friday, Oct 17th, 12.15-13.00 CEST
Where: Online and on-campus at Umeå University, as part of our AI centre's talk […]
Who: Merel Semeijn (Groningen)
What: *Botspeech? Bullshit!* -- on mental fictionalism applied to LLMs and 'uncaring users'
When: Friday, Oct 17th, 12.15-13.00 CEST
Where: Online and on-campus at Umeå University, as part of our AI centre's talk […]
Cool little adapted tale on AI, by Alison Gopnik:
https://simons.berkeley.edu/news/stone-soup-ai
https://simons.berkeley.edu/news/stone-soup-ai
Stone Soup AI
For some time, I’ve argued that a common conception of AI is misguided. This is the idea that AI systems like large language and vision models are individual intelligent agents, analogous to human agents. Instead, I’ve argued that these models are “cultural technologies” like writing, print, pictures, libraries, internet search engines, and Wikipedia.
simons.berkeley.edu
October 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Cool little adapted tale on AI, by Alison Gopnik:
https://simons.berkeley.edu/news/stone-soup-ai
https://simons.berkeley.edu/news/stone-soup-ai
Interesting and worrying article by Marcus and Hamiel going over recent work exploring the very serious security weaknesses of agentic AI:
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-coding-agents-security-nightmare
#ai #cybersec
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-coding-agents-security-nightmare
#ai #cybersec
大型语言模型（LLMs）和编码代理是安全噩梦。
LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare (garymarcus.substack.com)
08-18 ↑ 102 HN Points
garymarcus.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Interesting and worrying article by Marcus and Hamiel going over recent work exploring the very serious security weaknesses of agentic AI:
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-coding-agents-security-nightmare
#ai #cybersec
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-coding-agents-security-nightmare
#ai #cybersec
Reposted by Dimitri Coelho Mollo
Veo3 shows that particular blindness that tech people have to the way culture develops.
It looks impressive now, but that's because it usually takes a lot of work to film shots like this. Once people learn to recognize video AI's "style", that style becomes […]
[Original post on sigmoid.social]
It looks impressive now, but that's because it usually takes a lot of work to film shots like this. Once people learn to recognize video AI's "style", that style becomes […]
[Original post on sigmoid.social]
July 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Veo3 shows that particular blindness that tech people have to the way culture develops.
It looks impressive now, but that's because it usually takes a lot of work to film shots like this. Once people learn to recognize video AI's "style", that style becomes […]
[Original post on sigmoid.social]
It looks impressive now, but that's because it usually takes a lot of work to film shots like this. Once people learn to recognize video AI's "style", that style becomes […]
[Original post on sigmoid.social]
Reposted by Dimitri Coelho Mollo
Yuguang Yang has shared a textbook about LLMs here
https://yangyutu.github.io/llm_book.github.io
"This book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of Large Language Models, from their foundational concepts to their practical applications, with a special focus on their role in […]
https://yangyutu.github.io/llm_book.github.io
"This book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of Large Language Models, from their foundational concepts to their practical applications, with a special focus on their role in […]
Original post on mastodon.online
mastodon.online
July 7, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Yuguang Yang has shared a textbook about LLMs here
https://yangyutu.github.io/llm_book.github.io
"This book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of Large Language Models, from their foundational concepts to their practical applications, with a special focus on their role in […]
https://yangyutu.github.io/llm_book.github.io
"This book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of Large Language Models, from their foundational concepts to their practical applications, with a special focus on their role in […]
Interesting reporting and analysis by Gordon Hull about recent decisions in the US courts about AI and copyright:
https://www.newappsblog.com/2025/07/ai-and-copyright-training-data-and-transformative-fair-use.html
#aiethics #ailaw
https://www.newappsblog.com/2025/07/ai-and-copyright-training-data-and-transformative-fair-use.html
#aiethics #ailaw
July 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Interesting reporting and analysis by Gordon Hull about recent decisions in the US courts about AI and copyright:
https://www.newappsblog.com/2025/07/ai-and-copyright-training-data-and-transformative-fair-use.html
#aiethics #ailaw
https://www.newappsblog.com/2025/07/ai-and-copyright-training-data-and-transformative-fair-use.html
#aiethics #ailaw
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Wikipedia has a cheat sheet of well-known tells for identifying generated text. (With an appropriate warning not to over-index on minor ones as absolute proof) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases
Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/AI catchphrases - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
July 1, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Wikipedia has a cheat sheet of well-known tells for identifying generated text. (With an appropriate warning not to over-index on minor ones as absolute proof) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases
Some good venting by Steve Klabnik about the sorry state of significant chunks of the AI debate today:
"What is breaking my brain a little bit is that all of the discussion online around AI is so incredibly polarized. This isn’t a “the middle is always right” sort of thing either, to be clear […]
"What is breaking my brain a little bit is that all of the discussion online around AI is so incredibly polarized. This isn’t a “the middle is always right” sort of thing either, to be clear […]
Original post on social.sunet.se
social.sunet.se
June 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Some good venting by Steve Klabnik about the sorry state of significant chunks of the AI debate today:
"What is breaking my brain a little bit is that all of the discussion online around AI is so incredibly polarized. This isn’t a “the middle is always right” sort of thing either, to be clear […]
"What is breaking my brain a little bit is that all of the discussion online around AI is so incredibly polarized. This isn’t a “the middle is always right” sort of thing either, to be clear […]
Reposted by Dimitri Coelho Mollo
He’s called Telemachus
June 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
He’s called Telemachus
Reposted by Dimitri Coelho Mollo
#job alert! Fully funded 4-year #phd position on the #philosophy of #datascience in relation to #psychiatry and #psychopathology at the department of #theoreticalphilosophy in #groningen.
All details here: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000BDMP […]
All details here: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000BDMP […]
Original post on social.edu.nl
social.edu.nl
June 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
#job alert! Fully funded 4-year #phd position on the #philosophy of #datascience in relation to #psychiatry and #psychopathology at the department of #theoreticalphilosophy in #groningen.
All details here: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000BDMP […]
All details here: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000BDMP […]
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There are some interesting details about how Anthropic trained their models tucked away in today's summary judgement: they bought, chopped up and scanned millions of dollars worth of books! https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/24/anthropic-training/
Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books
Major USA legal news for the AI industry today. Judge William Alsup released a "summary judgement" (a legal decision that results in some parts of a case skipping a trial) …
simonwillison.net
June 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
There are some interesting details about how Anthropic trained their models tucked away in today's summary judgement: they bought, chopped up and scanned millions of dollars worth of books! https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/24/anthropic-training/
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This looks like a valuable paper for any educational institution interested in developing an evidence-based policy on LLM usage (if such an institution exists)
"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
arxiv.org
June 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This looks like a valuable paper for any educational institution interested in developing an evidence-based policy on LLM usage (if such an institution exists)
A new, updated, streamlined, and generally improved version of The Vector Grounding Problem paper, joint work by @raphaelmilliere and me on the meaningfulness or else of LLM outputs and internal representations is now available on ArXiv.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01481
New abstract in the […]
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01481
New abstract in the […]
Original post on social.sunet.se
social.sunet.se
June 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A new, updated, streamlined, and generally improved version of The Vector Grounding Problem paper, joint work by @raphaelmilliere and me on the meaningfulness or else of LLM outputs and internal representations is now available on ArXiv.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01481
New abstract in the […]
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01481
New abstract in the […]
Reposted by Dimitri Coelho Mollo
Open access
Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues
www.cambridge.org
June 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Open access
Reposted by Dimitri Coelho Mollo
"These insights challenge prevailing assumptions about LRM capabilities and suggest that current approaches may be encountering fundamental barriers to generalizable reasoning."
While it's a bit of a "Well, I could have told you that" style of hypothesis […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
While it's a bit of a "Well, I could have told you that" style of hypothesis […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
June 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"These insights challenge prevailing assumptions about LRM capabilities and suggest that current approaches may be encountering fundamental barriers to generalizable reasoning."
While it's a bit of a "Well, I could have told you that" style of hypothesis […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
While it's a bit of a "Well, I could have told you that" style of hypothesis […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Another of my forays into AI ethics is just out! This time the focus is on the ethics (or lack thereof) of Reinforcement Learning Feedback (RLF) techniques aimed at increasing the 'alignment' of LLMs.
The paper is fruit of the joint work of a great team of collaborators, among whom @pettter and […]
The paper is fruit of the joint work of a great team of collaborators, among whom @pettter and […]
Original post on social.sunet.se
social.sunet.se
June 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Another of my forays into AI ethics is just out! This time the focus is on the ethics (or lack thereof) of Reinforcement Learning Feedback (RLF) techniques aimed at increasing the 'alignment' of LLMs.
The paper is fruit of the joint work of a great team of collaborators, among whom @pettter and […]
The paper is fruit of the joint work of a great team of collaborators, among whom @pettter and […]
Reposted by Dimitri Coelho Mollo
Bach and Handel never met but they were both blinded by the same quack oculist: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ta...
June 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Bach and Handel never met but they were both blinded by the same quack oculist: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ta...
Reposted by Dimitri Coelho Mollo
I can’t help it, I somehow feel gaslighted by the whole #genai debate. People who are critical of GenAI are often told “but when done right, you’re just so much more productive, so obviously you just didn’t to it right.” So I’m trying. Not because I feel I need to, but because I just want to get […]
Original post on fedihum.org
fedihum.org
June 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I can’t help it, I somehow feel gaslighted by the whole #genai debate. People who are critical of GenAI are often told “but when done right, you’re just so much more productive, so obviously you just didn’t to it right.” So I’m trying. Not because I feel I need to, but because I just want to get […]
Just read that Mozilla has decided to shut down Pocket (!?!). Its integration with Kobo e-readers is great and something I will miss. It will be difficult to find a similarly practical way to read web articles on my e-reader, other than the somewhat clunky pdf-saving + cloud sync method. Any […]
Original post on social.sunet.se
social.sunet.se
June 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Just read that Mozilla has decided to shut down Pocket (!?!). Its integration with Kobo e-readers is great and something I will miss. It will be difficult to find a similarly practical way to read web articles on my e-reader, other than the somewhat clunky pdf-saving + cloud sync method. Any […]
My department has just opened a call for a professor in Philosophy (area of philosophical expertise pretty much open).
The department is great, and Umeå is a lovely place to live and work in. Come join us!
https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/professor-of-philosophy_822386/ […]
The department is great, and Umeå is a lovely place to live and work in. Come join us!
https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/professor-of-philosophy_822386/ […]
Original post on social.sunet.se
social.sunet.se
May 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My department has just opened a call for a professor in Philosophy (area of philosophical expertise pretty much open).
The department is great, and Umeå is a lovely place to live and work in. Come join us!
https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/professor-of-philosophy_822386/ […]
The department is great, and Umeå is a lovely place to live and work in. Come join us!
https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/professor-of-philosophy_822386/ […]
Reposted by Dimitri Coelho Mollo
Arvind Narayanan's and Sayash Kapoor's "AI as a Normal Technology" is possibly the most interesting text I've read about #ai and #society this year (and perhaps including 2024 as well).
It will take some time to process all my notes for sure!
To help me think this through, please share any […]
It will take some time to process all my notes for sure!
To help me think this through, please share any […]
Original post on thoresson.social
thoresson.social
May 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Reposted by Dimitri Coelho Mollo
Monday 28 April 2025
Webinar
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Join at:
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Zoe DRAYSON
(University of California, Davis)
Neural representations are (still) theoretical posits
Discussants: Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh), Gualtiero Piccinini (U. of Missouri)
Webinar
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Neural representations are (still) theoretical posits
Discussants: Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh), Gualtiero Piccinini (U. of Missouri)
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April 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Monday 28 April 2025
Webinar
h16-18 CEST
(check your local time here)
Join at:
unito.webex.com/unito-en/j.p...
Zoe DRAYSON
(University of California, Davis)
Neural representations are (still) theoretical posits
Discussants: Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh), Gualtiero Piccinini (U. of Missouri)
Webinar
h16-18 CEST
(check your local time here)
Join at:
unito.webex.com/unito-en/j.p...
Zoe DRAYSON
(University of California, Davis)
Neural representations are (still) theoretical posits
Discussants: Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh), Gualtiero Piccinini (U. of Missouri)
Reposted by Dimitri Coelho Mollo
END OF 10
Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025.
Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer.
But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?
If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By […]
[Original post on ai6yr.org]
Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025.
Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer.
But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?
If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By […]
[Original post on ai6yr.org]
April 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
END OF 10
Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025.
Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer.
But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?
If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By […]
[Original post on ai6yr.org]
Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025.
Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer.
But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?
If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By […]
[Original post on ai6yr.org]
Call for postdoc applications!
We are looking for a 1-year postdoc to work on Philosophy of AI here in lovely Umeå.
Deadline for applications is May 26th.
More information about the fellowship and how to apply can be found here […]
We are looking for a 1-year postdoc to work on Philosophy of AI here in lovely Umeå.
Deadline for applications is May 26th.
More information about the fellowship and how to apply can be found here […]
Original post on social.sunet.se
social.sunet.se
April 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Call for postdoc applications!
We are looking for a 1-year postdoc to work on Philosophy of AI here in lovely Umeå.
Deadline for applications is May 26th.
More information about the fellowship and how to apply can be found here […]
We are looking for a 1-year postdoc to work on Philosophy of AI here in lovely Umeå.
Deadline for applications is May 26th.
More information about the fellowship and how to apply can be found here […]
Interesting study on perceptions about AI in the general US public and among US AI experts (both from academia and companies).
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/03/how-the-us-public-and-ai-experts-view-artificial-intelligence/
Some interesting findings include: experts think people […]
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/03/how-the-us-public-and-ai-experts-view-artificial-intelligence/
Some interesting findings include: experts think people […]
Original post on social.sunet.se
social.sunet.se
April 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Interesting study on perceptions about AI in the general US public and among US AI experts (both from academia and companies).
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/03/how-the-us-public-and-ai-experts-view-artificial-intelligence/
Some interesting findings include: experts think people […]
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/03/how-the-us-public-and-ai-experts-view-artificial-intelligence/
Some interesting findings include: experts think people […]