Reposted by Ivan KartáčJulian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 10/10/2026New blog post: A.I.: Anti-Intellectualism togelius.blogspot.com/2026/10/ai-a... 312124 0
Reposted by Ivan KartáčShreya Chowdhary @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026New #AIES paper w/ @benzevgreen.bsky.social & @tisjune.bsky.social - "Deconstructing AI Hype: A Playbook for Resistance"! Read here: shreyachowdhary.net/files/decons... We argue that AI hype is a problem not because it misdescribes AI, but because it facilitates AI entrenchment. 13018 0
Reposted by Ivan KartáčSaad Mahamood @saad.me.uk · 02/10/2026I am pleased to announce that our @nejlt.bsky.social letter looking at the secular trends of LLMs and Natural Language Generation research has been published today: nejlt.ep.liu.se/article/view...nejlt.ep.liu.se The Future of Natural Language Generation in the Age of Large Language Models | Northern European Journal of Language Technology 141 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026And it didn't stop there at all bsky.app/profile/emnl... 120 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Soon people will need a layer of specialized agents to communicate with Claude on their behalf 110 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I agree that PhD students should probably not be shamed for using it, but I'm still quite disappointed (and maybe even surprised) by how normalized it is to post on x, after all that happened 030 0
Reposted by Ivan KartáčVilém Zouhar @zouhar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Machine translation is not solved and it will take a while for it to be done arxiv.org/abs/2609.04173arxiv.orgLast Translation BenchmarkFor scientific progress, we need benchmarks that test the limits of state-of-the-art models, and evaluation methods that inform us about failure cases. As models get stronger, standard benchmarks for ... 34612 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I just remind myself that they will create new benchmarks to saturate and then we’re back at zero for a while 020 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Actually I forgot to mention that this was a swarm of taggers 030 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 03/09/2026When writing a position paper, it must feel really good to finally be allowed to put all those exclamation marks in an academic text 010 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Also the more metaphorical use there seems to correlate positively with single-authorship (which is not really surprising) 020 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 30/08/2026That’s kind of similar to what I’ve seen with occurrences on arxiv: before 2026, it’s mostly in robotics, biology, or physics (and it collocates with “structure”, “component”, etc.) 120 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 30/08/2026(so these are news articles, in that case it’s topics rather than fields) 010 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I’d expect the pre-2026 occurrences to be mostly from fields where the term is used less metaphorically 210 0
Reposted by Ivan KartáčBen Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The overreaction to this Hugging Face thing is driving me nuts. Come flay me for being wrong but... 1/x 14436126 0
Reposted by Ivan KartáčVictoria Bosch @initself.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Are brains and artificial neural networks converging onto universal representations? There is a seductive idea making the rounds in NeuroAI / machine learning: train systems well enough, and they all converge on the same representation of reality (i.e. a unique world model). We have thoughts™ 1/ncell.comThe Umwelt Representation Hypothesis: rethinking UniversalityRecent studies reveal striking representational alignment between artificial neural networks (ANNs) and biological brains, leading to proposals that all sufficiently capable systems converge on univer... 818175 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 29/08/2026This could (at least in part) be a consequence of the framing these companies are pushing, where this technology is a kind of an autonomous human-like agent, completely distinct from the traditional software. And many people seem to happily accept that (even if not always consciously) 100 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Yes, I think that even though main reason for not revealing raw intermediate tokens in closed models seems to be distillation by competition, it’s perhaps equally important for LLM companies to be able to pretend that these tokens mostly form coherent “thinking traces”. 110 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Then I'm not sure if it can help me transform my business 110 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 28/08/2026If you fire an AI agent, does it become unemployed? 170 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 28/08/2026that’s nice but how does it score on Humanity’s last exam? 110 0
Reposted by Ivan KartáčTom McCoy @rtommccoy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Since many are starting grad school soon, let me re-share my One Big Tip™️ for research! Research involves many skills - collaborating, writing, presenting, etc. But many of these skills can be unified under a single overarching ability: theory of mind Blog post link in reply 28019 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026At least some papers already put “load-bearing” in the title, so we don’t have to waste time reading the abstract or intro 290 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Fun fact: EMNLP proceedings had only 14 papers thirty years ago aclanthology.org/events/emnlp...aclanthology.orgConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (1996) - ACL Anthology 292 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I don't really get why people use the latest Claude models for writing. And because their language is so convoluted and verbose, this can even make them much less useful for coding. 010 0
Reposted by Ivan KartáčJulian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 22/08/2026A personal essay about how I’ve been feeling and thinking about this new technology that I’m contributing to and what it might to do to us all. togelius.blogspot.com/2026/08/losi...togelius.blogspot.comLosing my religionIn spring 2025 I had a crisis of faith. I thought about what the technology I'm helping to create might do to our future, and got scared. M... 99522 0
Reposted by Ivan KartáčEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Still think being able to understand the algorithm you're interacting with is very underrated as important www.eugenevinitsky.com/posts/audita...eugenevinitsky.comQuit social media that won't tell you their algorithmOpaque feeds shape what you believe and you can never check whether they are working for you. We should insist on auditable algorithms, and support the platforms willing to build them. 58011 0
Reposted by Ivan KartáčBen Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Microconferences: A modest proposal for alternative systems to generate, evaluate, and share knowledge.argmin.netMicroconferencesA proposal to create alternative systems for generating, evaluating, and sharing knowledge 2508 0
Reposted by Ivan KartáčGautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 18/08/2026I saw someone post a dozen+ AI slop papers purporting to solve niche open problems. This is antisocial behaviour and worse than if the problems stayed open. 0 people understand the solution, and there is no readable writeup. Also, incentive for either is removed. 2353 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Apparently number of extra fingers is an important criterion based on which they select members of this panel 020 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 17/08/2026It feels as if the text was screaming “Don’t take me seriously, I’m just a slop!” 001 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Reading generic LLM-written text is so painful. Not sure if it's just how the most recent models use language, but regardless of the ideas presented, I find it really hard to focus on semantics when I see the text is generated/rewritten by an LLM. 120 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I’ve heard that Marc Andreessen has been studying this very rigorously 010 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 16/08/2026In Europe, seeing anything recent on my timeline in the morning is either an anomaly or a signal that I woke up too early 020 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026It’s nice that Prover9 now has a new version after so many years (prover9.org), but they should have kept the logo 010 0
Reposted by Ivan KartáčIvan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 29/07/2026We should make the topic of climate change more sci-fi, so that Silicon Valley EAs and rationalists can finally pivot to it. 021 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I see people having different opinions about what is still a survey and what is a position paper. For me, the most interesting surveys are the highly opinionated ones, but some would already call these position papers. 100 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 13/08/2026It’s great to see this approach to teaching about AI evaluation. Isolated capabilities are definitely interesting, but we should be doing more evaluations in real-world settings and focus on whether systems actually help users with their tasks. 020 0
Reposted by Ivan KartáčMaria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Check it out! Lea is live and open to the public 🥳 Lea is an experiment to build better social media by researchers and for researchers, where we own our own data and can build our own feeds, events, and communities. This is still very much a proof-of-concept; we welcome ideas + collaborators! 2024285 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Regarding “using GenAI proportionally to how well you know something”: the problem with this is that there’s often an initial overconfidence when learning a new skill (and later more uncertainty as one gets better at it). So one can easily end up offloading some parts of the process too early. 010 0
Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Exactly, fields like medicine or psychology have much better culture in this respect for obvious reasons. I think the common novelty argument is mainly the legacy of AI/ML/etc. becoming more of engineering rather than scientific fields at some point. 020 0
Reposted by Ivan KartáčPaper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/08/2025**Please repost** If you're enjoying Paper Skygest -- our personalized feed of academic content on Bluesky -- we'd appreciate you reposting this! We’ve found that the most effective way for us to reach new users and communities is through users sharing it with their network 2114143 0
Reposted by Ivan KartáčTimothee Mickus @linguistickus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I was asked to write down my thoughts about ACL 2026 by several different people and why I wasn't thrilled by the experience, so here's a stupidly long ass rant timotheemickus.github.io/hustle%20and... 152 0