Are you human? It's no longer enough to check that box. You now need to prove your humanity by showing that you can write a non-AI way. At least in this game that my PhD student Maria Edwards built based on our joint design. Curious? Try nonslop and see if you can write nonslop!

What Russians did the last 48h:

- Bombing a kindergarten in Kharkiv
- carpet bombing of Kherson with unguided MLRS fire
- hunted farmers on their fields with FPV drones
- Killed a 84-year old female with a FPV drone
- Fired ballistic missiles at Kyiv

To understand what triggered the protests and the unexpected reaction in Ukraine, it’s essential to know the context - especially for those who don’t follow Ukraine’s internal politics.

🧵Thread:

1/ First, the protest isn’t aimed at the President personally, but at a specific law passed yesterday.

The situation with Russians killing a toddler with a drone is especially despicable when you realize this wasn’t a stray artillery shell that landed 50 meters off, or a Shahed drone that hit a tall building, but an FPV drone, guided in real time by an operator watching it live

I'll get straight to the point.

We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT.

Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff.

It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵

❄️ Snowflake just released 2 very strong yet small embedding models for English and Multilingual retrieval.

Large model: huggingface.co/Snowflake/sn...
Medium model: huggingface.co/Snowflake/sn...

Details in 🧵

With all the bad stuff that happened recently to the 🤗 dataset team, here's my small contribution to the image-preferences dataset. It's the first time I contributed to the OS dataset (the seal was broken ;)). Hope that helps a bit with your mission! That's for you @danielvanstrien.bsky.social

An AI researcher that wants to stop big tech owning everything was permabanned here for releasing a dataset of 2M posts.

A librarian received death threats for a 1M post dataset.

The EU funded the creation of this dataset of 235M posts months ago, and… nothing?
zenodo.org/records/1108...

Did you know that 99% of email today is spam? Your inbox isn’t 99% spam because AI is used to filter it.

The same 99% will happen here too, but if AI researchers continue to get perma-banned for making available the datasets needed to filter it, it’s going to make this platform unusable.

Choose one alive or human

@togelius.bsky.social, I've recently read your new book "Artificial General Intelligence" and I have to say I loved it! Especially the chapters about moving goalposts and types of intelligence with examples from sci-fi (💙Lem).

I have some thoughts about the "AGI and Society" chapter though.

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The extended edition of Lord of the Rings is a treasure, my treasure... yesss.