Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My sincere hope is that AI progress slows way down but continues in a way that's economically significant but not too much. Anything else would be a very significant inconvenience to me personally. 020
Reposted by Mike GuerzhoyMike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026* If it's not in the system prompt, it probably doesn't work as a general "prompt engineering" technique [with the exception of forcing the system to do more work for the same price, which does work] * "Don't be a midwit about it" doesn't work ** Unsurprising: "Engineering" requires domain knowledge 071
Reposted by Mike GuerzhoyKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 20/09/2026This thing I made two years ago continues to hold up pretty well 947289
Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A large enough number N is conscious. It so happens that due to ultrafinitism's being true, it doesn't exist, so this doesn't come up in practice youtu.be/orMtwOz6Db0?... 000
Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=brPe... Run My Code from this spring, with Claude Code combobulating in the backgroundyoutube.comRun My Code at NΨ Nocturne 2T6 at UofTYouTube video by Michael Guerzhoy 000
Reposted by Mike GuerzhoyA. H. Zakai @kripken.com · 11/08/2026A thread about proofs described as "AI is intractable / AGI can't work". That 2024 paper and similar ones are worst-case analyses. That is, there are distributions that no machine learning technique can learn effectively. Yes, computers cannot learn everything. But what does that show? 4387
Reposted by Mike GuerzhoyMike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026To appear in Computational Brain & Behavior soon: the claimed 2024 proof (also in CBB) that AGI via learning is intractable also "proves" that ImageNet is intractable. My reading of the hole: equivocation on the variable D. Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.06498arxiv.orgBarriers to Complexity-Theoretic Proofs that "AGI" Using Machine Learning is ImpossibleA recent paper (van Rooij et al. 2024) claims to have proved that achieving human-like intelligence using learning from data is intractable in a complexity-theoretic sense. We point out that the proof... 1225
Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I entertain myself with Fable Max queries and hipster coffee shop coffee. The dollar per minute entertainment ratio favours Fable but not by a lot 000
Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Back from the dentist! (1) Insurance auto-approves. Bro do you even logistic regression? (2) How does he know what instrument to use? Serious world-modelling there (3) I waived the x-ray explanation; can't check (4) Some anaesthetic, more only if patient asks: that one I get 100
Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Area man assigns homework, surprised range-restricted homework doesn't predict exam. (I don't doubt there was ChatGPT'ing with the free ChatGPT, and the R^2 is way lower than I'd guess even after accounting for ChatGGPT (see plot), but the point stands) 110
Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Two fundamental problems (1) humanities people thinking it's normal to give a talk from a script (2) the guy didn't come back with "you're absolutely right to push back on this" 000
Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026When I retire, I expect UofT Bookstore to retire the generic collegiate font UofT ENGINEERING t-shirt 000
Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026To appear in Computational Brain & Behavior soon: the claimed 2024 proof (also in CBB) that AGI via learning is intractable also "proves" that ImageNet is intractable. My reading of the hole: equivocation on the variable D. Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.06498arxiv.orgBarriers to Complexity-Theoretic Proofs that "AGI" Using Machine Learning is ImpossibleA recent paper (van Rooij et al. 2024) claims to have proved that achieving human-like intelligence using learning from data is intractable in a complexity-theoretic sense. We point out that the proof... 1225
Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Some personal news: I solved the Wordle in 3 guesses before my Friday afternoon ESC180 class. While you're here, the final version of our Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: IJCNLP-AACL 2025 paper on biases in human Wordle gameplay is out 100
Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 17/10/2025New from us at ICCV workshops this weekend: www.cs.toronto.edu/~guerzhoy/Op... www.cs.toronto.edu/~guerzhoy/EC... Stay tuned for NeurIPS stuff :-) 000
Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025I was cited in Psychology Today! Specifically, implying the opposite of what I actually wrote, by a person arguing that that's the kind of thing LLMs would do. www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/how-... Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2411.06498 000
Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025At the Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting in Saskatoon (my first time in the Praries) 020
Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Happy belated Valentine's day! New one is in orange 010
Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Low Cost Airline (FLAIR) captain at the door, pointing at my NeurIPS/etc posters: what are those, your plans to take over the world? Me: Yes and the amazing thing is you didn't charge for those as extra carry-on (OK fine I was two minutes late with this and didn't come back up to the plane) 020
Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Geoff Hinton was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. I wasn't but I did score an 87 in his course in 2005, so I got to be on (Canadian) national TV talking about it. youtube.com/watch?v=rQxv... (CTV) youtube.com/watch?v=6yDz... (CityTV) globalnews.ca/video/109117... (Global) 000
Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024This Sunday, I went down to Chestnut Residence to play Ping Pong against some 17 @uoft.bsky.social EngSci students who challenged me to a game! For every point difference against me in a game I lost I donated $1 to the Toronto Humane Society (rounded up a bit to $42 + credit card fees). 000
Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024I miss the times when I could just post to Facebook and get engagement. New socials suck: LinkedIn: Easy engagement, but tacky Instagram: Easy engagement, but don't understand it Bsky: People too nice Twitter: People too mean Openreview/EasyChair: People *way* too mean 010
Mike Guerzhoy @guerzhoy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Chemin de l'Église on a warm autumn night — in Montbonnot-Saint-Martin, France., Nov 24, 2012 000