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Ivan Kartáč

@ivankartac.bsky.social
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Researcher in NLP & computational linguistics. PhD student @ Charles University, Prague. Working on evaluation, explainability, and reasoning. ivankartac.github.io

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New blog post: A.I.: Anti-Intellectualism togelius.blogspot.com/2026/10/ai-a...
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Shreya Chowdhary @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New #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.
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Even Jev?
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Saad Mahamood @saad.me.uk · 02/10/2026
I 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...
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The Future of Natural Language Generation in the Age of Large Language Models | Northern European Journal of Language Technology
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And it didn't stop there at all bsky.app/profile/emnl...
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is it watermarked?
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Soon people will need a layer of specialized agents to communicate with Claude on their behalf
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I 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
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Vilém Zouhar @zouhar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Machine translation is not solved and it will take a while for it to be done arxiv.org/abs/2609.04173
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Last Translation Benchmark
For 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 ...
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I just remind myself that they will create new benchmarks to saturate and then we’re back at zero for a while
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Actually I forgot to mention that this was a swarm of taggers
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When writing a position paper, it must feel really good to finally be allowed to put all those exclamation marks in an academic text
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
How many votes counts as a diagnosis?
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Also the more metaphorical use there seems to correlate positively with single-authorship (which is not really surprising)
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
That’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.)
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
(so these are news articles, in that case it’s topics rather than fields)
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’d expect the pre-2026 occurrences to be mostly from fields where the term is used less metaphorically
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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The overreaction to this Hugging Face thing is driving me nuts. Come flay me for being wrong but... 1/x
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Victoria Bosch @initself.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Are 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/n
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The Umwelt Representation Hypothesis: rethinking Universality
Recent studies reveal striking representational alignment between artificial neural networks (ANNs) and biological brains, leading to proposals that all sufficiently capable systems converge on univer...
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This 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)
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yes, 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”.
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Then I'm not sure if it can help me transform my business
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you fire an AI agent, does it become unemployed?
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
that’s nice but how does it score on Humanity’s last exam?
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Tom McCoy @rtommccoy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Since 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
Illustration of the blog post's main argument, summarized as: "Theory of Mind as a Central Skill for Researchers: Research involves many skills.If each skill is viewed separately, each one takes a long time to learn. These skills can instead be connected via theory of mind – the ability to reason about the mental states of others. This allows you to transfer your abilities across areas, making it easier to gain new skills."
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Could be also frolicking, it’s hard to say
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I guess it’s just flibbertigibbeting there
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
At least some papers already put “load-bearing” in the title, so we don’t have to waste time reading the abstract or intro
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Fun fact: EMNLP proceedings had only 14 papers thirty years ago aclanthology.org/events/emnlp...
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Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (1996) - ACL Anthology
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I 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.
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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A 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...
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Losing my religion
In 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...
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Still think being able to understand the algorithm you're interacting with is very underrated as important www.eugenevinitsky.com/posts/audita...
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Quit social media that won't tell you their algorithm
Opaque 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.
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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Microconferences: A modest proposal for alternative systems to generate, evaluate, and share knowledge.
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Microconferences
A proposal to create alternative systems for generating, evaluating, and sharing knowledge
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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 18/08/2026
I 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.
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Apparently number of extra fingers is an important criterion based on which they select members of this panel
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It feels as if the text was screaming “Don’t take me seriously, I’m just a slop!”
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Reading 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.
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I’ve heard that Marc Andreessen has been studying this very rigorously
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
In Europe, seeing anything recent on my timeline in the morning is either an anomaly or a signal that I woke up too early
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It’s nice that Prover9 now has a new version after so many years (prover9.org), but they should have kept the logo
Original Prover9 logo
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
B R UH!
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
We should make the topic of climate change more sci-fi, so that Silicon Valley EAs and rationalists can finally pivot to it.
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I 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.
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It’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.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Check 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!
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Hyped to try this out!
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Regarding “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.
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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Exactly, 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.
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Paper 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
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Timothee Mickus @linguistickus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I 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...
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