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Bálint Gyevnár

@gbalint.bsky.social
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Postdoc @ CMU Machine Learning and Philosophy • Metascience of AI: safeguarding scientific integrity in the age of AI • gbalint.me • 🇭🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Tim Miller @tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I'm hiring again! 2 postdoc positions (3-years). Australian citizenship required. Join my lab to research scalable human-centred AI for decision support in defence, balancing scalable decision support and human control in complex environments. Details: uqtmiller.github.io/recruitment/
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Visiting San Diego, I can say with confidence that the rest of the world is not up to real taco standards. That thing here rocks
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Everyone stop, this is important
A black and white drawing of three dachshunds arranged vertically, each holding a different optical illusion object in its mouth, and the dogs themselves drawn as if a single line optical illusion. The top dog holds a Penrose triangle, the middle dog holds a Necker cube, and the bottom dog holds a Penrose trident. The dogs’ bodies are elongated in an exaggerated cartoon style. The artwork is signed “@IndieTheIntrovert” in the bottom right corner.
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
What does it mean when we say we understand mathematics and how will AI change all that? I recently attended the workshop on the Cognitive Science of Mathematical Understanding organized by Tania Lombrozo and Akshay Venkatesh, and summarized my experiences on my blog: gbalint.me/blog/2025/ma...
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Mathematical Understanding and Artificial Intelligence | Bálint Gyevnár
Thoughts and notes from the workshop on the Cognitive Science of Mathematical Understanding
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András Tóth-Czifra @minczifra.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
And now the propaganda rag "Magyar Nemzet" (along with other pro-Orban media) shared - then removed - a map containing the personal data, including the address, of the opposition supporters and activists whose data was stolen. Clear and brazen intimidation tactics. 444.hu/2025/11/07/n...
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Nyíltan hergel a Magyar Nemzet a tiszások ellen, akiknek ellopták az adataikat
Ez a fideszes média történetének egyik legkeményebb húzása.
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 06/11/2025
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
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GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I had a long conversation with MIT Tech Review’s @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social about AGI; it fed into this very good read on the rise of AGI orthodoxy
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How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I have been doing ML wrong my whole life: arxiv.org/abs/2309.08632
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Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need
Inspired by recent work demonstrating the promise of smaller Transformer-based language models pretrained on carefully curated data, we supercharge such approaches by investing heavily in curating a n...
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Yeah that is true, although it hasn’t been the case more recently afaik: youtu.be/Whqs8v1svyo?...
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Why British cities make no sense
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Oh just wait until you see what they call cities in England: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Cycling in Pittsburgh is great: the city is beautiful in the autumn colours, I never need to do cardio training again, and one may experience the "Pittsburgh left" which is when oncoming cars cut ahead of you at an unprotected left turn. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsbu...
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Pittsburgh left - Wikipedia
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Sedat Kapanoğlu @ssg.dev · 25/10/2025
new blog post: Vibe coding in the 90's
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Vibe coding in the 90's
Hey folks. You know how programming is hard in 1994. You need books, help files, manuals, references to learn about a certain feature. You read all those. Then you go through endless iteration of tria...
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
TIL that the expression: constant == expression, is called a Yoda condition and it makes so much sense. docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/y...
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yoda-conditions (SIM300) | Ruff
Checks for conditions that position a constant on the left-hand side of the
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Kirigami-inspired parachutes with programmable reconfiguration - Nature
A thin planar disc designed with appropriately patterned cuts transforms itself, due to air flow effects, into an effective parachute exhibiting good positional stability, regardless of its initial or...
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I just saw a recent @nature.com paper that designs parachutes by literally cutting hundreds of holes into a disc. Inspired by kirigami, which is like origami but instead of folds you make cuts, if you cut a disc the right way, then you might just be able to jump out of a plane and survive.
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
👏👏👏 eurips.cc/salon-des-re...
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Salon des Refusés - A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe
A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Throw back to a cloud inversion on Beinn Eighe a year ago. If you have the chance, explore the Scottish Highlands!
Mountains peeking above the clouds in Northwest Scotland
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The Hungarian government often mails people “National Consultations” paid for by taxpayers, asking violently condescending questions: “Do you wanna raise taxes?” A: “Yes, I like paying more to fund those who don’t work.” B: “No.” Then they use the results to fake support for their agenda…
Photo of the first question of the recent national consultation in Hungary.
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Just came across this mesmerising art by Estampa of the components of GenAI interacting with humanity: cartography-of-generative-ai.net Reminds me a little of Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler's Anatomy of an AI System: anatomyof.ai
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Cartography of generative AI
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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Please share! We have a number of fully funded PhD studentships in "Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing". I'm a possible supervisor & I'd be keen to support projects on sociolinguistics-AI, e.g., accent bias in AI, language+gender/sexuality+AI. www.responsiblenlp.org
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Our CDT is based in the Edinburgh Futures Institute – the University of Edinburgh’s brand new hub for research, innovation and teaching focused on socially just artificial intelligence and data.
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Ironically, the “AI scientist”-written paper that was accepted to an ICLR workshop was about LSTMs and the paper didn’t cite Schmidhuber. AI scientists should have a Schmidhuber agent that verifies these important details in the future.
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Grace @gracekind.net · 06/09/2025
Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
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A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
"I have wait a long time for this moment, my little red friend." - Emperor Palpatine, probably
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Having been playing The Art of Fauna while procrastinating, and it is the most relaxing game with beautiful illustrations of animals. I cannot recommend it enough: theartof.app/fauna/
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The Art of Fauna: Cozy Puzzles
Discover the wonders of nature with this cozy puzzle game. Download Now!
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
For a week, we visited @iyadrahwan.bsky.social's Center for Humans and Machines in Berlin, where we have met an incredible array of interdisciplinary researchers. Special thanks to @neeleengelmann.bsky.social for hosting us and @alice-ross.bsky.social for organising the trip from the start!
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Have been neglecting Bluesky recently, so I am happy to share a big update 🎉 I will join @cmu.edu as a postdoc in September working with the incomparable @atoosakz.bsky.social and Nihar Shah on understanding risks from LLM co-scientists. If you are in Pittsburgh, I would love to connect!
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Very cool-looking work, and will be reading this thoroughly. Also seems quite similar to our own: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17801
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Integrating Counterfactual Simulations with Language Models for Explaining Multi-Agent Behaviour
Autonomous multi-agent systems (MAS) are useful for automating complex tasks but raise trust concerns due to risks like miscoordination and goal misalignment. Explainability is vital for trust calibra...
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/07/2025
This thread is incredible.
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Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk)
.@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
VCs: oh yeah, developers with AI go brrrrr... METR: Uhm, actually they are 19% slower with AI metr.org/blog/2025-07...
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Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find th...
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The Edinburgh RL & Agents reading group is back in action after a hiatus. Previous speakers come for all across the world, including DeepMind, CMU, Oxford, NUS, etc. Sign up for some great discussions about cutting-edge RL and agents research.
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The absolute state of peer review...
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Peter Jelinek @peterjelinek.eurosky.social · 28/06/2025
Orban: Budapest Pride ist verboten. Budapest Pride: Liebe kannst du nicht verbieten♥️🏳️‍🌈 Angeblich mehr als 500.000 Menschen vor Ort.
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The @braiduk.bsky.social gathering did an amazing job with presenting artists and researchers who address real-world questions around AI by actually engaging with people and learning from them. After hearing two weeks of technical talks at CHAI and RLDM, this was a most welcome break of pace.
Shannon Vallor and Fabio Tollon on stage presenting their landscape study of responsible AI
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I had the most amazing time at RLDM learning a lot about RL and agent foundations, catching up with and meeting new friends. Two things that really stood out to me are: - Agency is Frame Dependent by from Dave Abel - Rethinking Foundations of Continual RL by Michael Bowling #RLDM2025
Members of the Edinburgh RL group in front of the RLDM poster
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I am heading to RLDM in Dublin this week to present our work on objective evaluation metrics for explainable RL. Hit me up there or send me a DM to connect if you are around.
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Preprint alert 🎉 Introducing the Agentic eXplanations via Interrogative Simulations (AXIS) algo. AXIS integrates multi-agent simulators with LLMs by having the LLMs interrogate the simulator with counterfactual queries over multiple rounds for explaining agent behaviour. arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17801
Flowchart of the AXIS algorithm with 5 parts. The top-left has the memory, the centre-left has the user query, the centre-bottom has the final explanation, the centre has the LLM, and the right has the multi-agent simulator.Screenshot of the arXiv paper
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Atoosa Kasirzadeh @atoosakz.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
What can policy makers learn from “AI safety for everyone” (Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s42... ; joint work with @gbalint.bsky.social )? I wrote about some policy lessons for Tech Policy Press.
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AI safety for everyone - Nature Machine Intelligence
A systematic review of peer-reviewed AI safety research reveals extensive work on practical and immediate concerns. The findings advocate for an inclusive approach to AI safety that embraces diverse m...
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Michael Winikoff @profwinikoff.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Delighted to share our most recent paper: "A Scoresheet for Explainable AI" (with John & Sebastian). It will be presented at @aamasconf.bsky.social later this month. 🎬 Short YouTube summary (5 minutes): www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCpf... 📝 Link to the paper on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2502.098...
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A Scoresheet for Explainable AI
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
90-year-old Masako Wakamiya at the final keynote of #CHI2025 shared a cautiously optimistic vision of the future of AI and humanity, especially for the elderly, as we enter the age of 100-year-long lives. Her speech and work is truly inspiring.
View of an auditorium stage with slides showing in the centre and Wakamiya-san and a sign-language interpreter showing on the sides.
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Oh yeah. In English, because apparently it sounds sophisticated, or at least that is what I have heard on the internet... So it must be true
White body towel in plastic packaging with black text
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
One of the things I find most unique about Japan are the unnecessary and questionable motivational quotes on just about anything. "Humans can only put out what has been put into them." says my pre-packed body towel in the fanciest of fonts. Inspiring stuff
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The #CHI2025 plushie is looking too cute:
A white maneki-neko plushie with a CHI2025 scarf looking extra cute
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
#CHI2025 has a badge tag for rejected author. 🥲I couldn't resist getting one for future use.
White translucent badge tag on a wooden table that says rejected author
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Our key takeaways are: 1. Designing causality for explanations from first principles is essential to fully understand what explanations to give to people about autonomous agents; 2. People prefer goal-oriented explanations for AVs, so focusing on those first might be beneficial. 🧵 7/7
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We also find that counterfactual explanations were not as effective at calibrating trust, which suggests that in more complex domains, such as with AVs, focusing on goal-oriented explanations first might be more useful initially. 🧵 6/7
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We find the best predictor of both perceived explanation quality and trust calibration is the degree of teleology in the explanations. In other words, people seem to prefer explanations that are goal-oriented. This supports the idea that they ascribe beliefs, desires, and intentions to AVs. 🧵 5/7
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
In the 1st stage, we asked people to write explanations, in their own words, along the four explanatory modes, for 14 unique driving scenarios, giving us more than 1,300 explanations. In the 2nd stage, different people annotated these explanations along axes of quality and trust calibration. 🧵 4/7
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Bálint Gyevnár @gbalint.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
1. Teleological, or goal-oriented; 2. Mechanistic, or mentioning direct causal relationships; 2. Counterfactual; 3. Descriptive, or a rephrasing of the situation. We test our framework with a two-stage quantitative experiment with people in the domain of autonomous vehicles (AVs). 🧵 3/7
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