@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-17 05:02:09
Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage.
Eight pages, that appear to have been produced by U.S. staff and left behind accidentally, shared precise locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of U.S. government employees
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-16 11:01:07
Adapting and Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Self-Management: A Divide and Conquer Framework
Zhaolong Wu, Pu Luo, Jason Pui Yin Cheung, Teng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11645
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-16 12:06:37
Bhaasha, Bhasa, Zaban: A Survey for Low-Resourced Languages in South Asia -- Current Stage and Challenges
Sampoorna Poria, Xiaolei Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11570 https:/…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-08-14 09:02:25
"how are free people supposed to stay free? One short answer: don’t trust anyone over thirty. Paine, reversing centuries’ worth of regard for age and experience, argued that freedom is not a privilege that the old may confer, but a right that the young must demand. Every rising generation should hold its predecessors accountable, boldly taking its rights from them"
I am an old man and I approve this message.
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-09-14 09:09:54
Interesting explanation of LLM training frameworks and the incentives for confident guessing.
"The authors examined ten major AI benchmarks, including those used by Google, OpenAI and also the top leaderboards that rank AI models. This revealed that nine benchmarks use binary grading systems that award zero points for AIs expressing uncertainty.
" ... When an AI system says “I don’t know”, it receives the same score as giving completely wrong information. The optimal strategy under such evaluation becomes clear: always guess. ...
"More sophisticated approaches like active learning, where AI systems ask clarifying questions to reduce uncertainty, can improve accuracy but further multiply computational requirements. ...
"Users want systems that provide confident answers to any question. Evaluation benchmarks reward systems that guess rather than express uncertainty. Computational costs favour fast, overconfident responses over slow, uncertain ones."
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My comment: "Fast, overconfident responses" sounds a bit similar to "bullshit", does it not?
#ChatGPT #LLMs #SoCalledAI
@lilmikesf@c.im2025-08-16 19:39:00
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-08-25 16:29:36
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-05 12:03:41
Transportation Cyber Incident Awareness through Generative AI-Based Incident Analysis and Retrieval-Augmented Question-Answering Systems
Ostonya Thomas, Muhaimin Bin Munir, Jean-Michel Tine, Mizanur Rahman, Yuchen Cai, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Md Nahiyan Uddin, Latifur Khan, Trayce Hockstad, Mashrur Chowdhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.025…
@steve@s.yelvington.com2025-07-04 18:39:10
No kings in America.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-06-26 18:35:23
Today I recalled an event from my youth.
One day, as I was walking home from school, a car driver stopped me. He asked if I'm from around here. Naturally, I found that quite inappropriate, since he has no business learning where do I live. But I answered. So he's asking me if I know where tire repair shop is. I answered that I don't. So he asked me again, "but are you from around here?" Well, that was too much, so he got a short explanation that just because I live here, that doesn't mean that I need to know every single company around here, and since I am not a driver (obviously — after all I was a school kid), I have never needed tire repair shop.
I suppose that worked quite well, since he drove away at this point. As he drove away, his car revealed a tire repair shop poster on the fence opposite.
The obvious lesson here is: if you need something, ask straight instead of going through silly helper questions.