Reposted by Gergely NeuEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Straight talk time: Doomerism is BORING. It's the same fantasties rehashed over and over again, just louder each time. And with each iteration it seems that new audiences are being reached, and a new group of people needs to be talked down from unnecessary fear. >> 11596163
Reposted by Gergely NeuNaomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulations finally exited the Uncanny Valley, they brought the Uncanny with them.nsaphra.netLife on the Uncanny Precipice | Naomi SaphraWe were wrong about the Uncanny Valley. 1026461
Reposted by Gergely NeuTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 21/07/2026Such oversimplification risks influencing public opinion in a way that not only damages perceptions of mathematics, but also misleadingly uses specific mathematical tasks as metrics for the general reasoning capacities of commercial products." ➡️SPOT ON. 1448
Reposted by Gergely Neuda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 16/07/2026OVER THINKING - dashare.zone ADMIN 030072
Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social · 22/05/2026value-driven transport! a new framework for generative modeling, combining elements of * optimal control / RL * optimal transport * stochastic primal-dual optimization thread about our new work with @pmorenoz.bsky.social (@upf.edu) & Adrian Müller (@ethz.ch) 1/ 1396
Reposted by Gergely Neuda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 28/04/2026WHAT IS TO BE DONE? - dashare.zone ADMIN 0363104
Reposted by Gergely NeuNeurIPS Europe @neuripseurope.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Today NeurIPS is announcing our official satellite event in Paris. After responding to the call from Ellis following the success of EurIPS in December, we are pleased to reach a new milestone by joining forces with the NeurIPS organizing committee for the 2026 edition. 18933
Reposted by Gergely Neuda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 05/03/2026I BEEN NICE!!! - dashare.zone ADMIN 0336100
Reposted by Gergely NeuELLIS @ellis.eu · 04/03/2026📣 Reinforcement Learning Summer School is returning to Milan in 2026! Co-organized with @ellisunitmilan.bsky.social & designed for Master's and PhD students on RL theory, multi-agent systems, RL & LLMs, real-world applications... 📍 Milan 🇮🇹 📅 3-12 June ⏰ Apply by 27 March 🔗 bit.ly/4b2Plhp 02411
Reposted by Gergely NeuBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 26/02/2026The left is not "missing out" on AI. It's winning the argument. Americans worry about AI and dislike tech CEOs. They're mobilizing against data centers. They support regulation, even refusal. Calls for the left to embrace AI are an effort to change the terms of the debate in Silicon Valley's favor.bloodinthemachine.comActually, the left is winning the AI debateBut it does need to get organized. 13947314
Reposted by Gergely Neuda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 09/02/2026ITS FINE - dashare.zone ADMIN 02441565
Reposted by Gergely NeuICREA Community @icreacommunity.bsky.social · 06/02/2026🎉 Avui és un dia especial! Celebrem els #25anysICREA al CCCB. Ens trobem més de 320 persones per celebrar un quart de segle de recerca d'excel·lència que ha transformat Catalunya i l'ha projectat al món. Avui, més que mai, tots #SomICREA. 3189
Reposted by Gergely NeuDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 06/02/2026"The agents on Moltbook are mimicking sci-fi tropes, not scheming world domination. Whether the most viral posts on Moltbook are generated by chatbots or by humans pretending to be AI, the hype around this viral site is overblown & nonsensical" www.wired.com/story/i-infi...wired.comI Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren’t AllowedI went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies. 14815
Reposted by Gergely Neuda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 25/01/2026ALT TXT - dashare.zone ADMIN 038393
Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social · 12/01/2026our team at @upf.edu is hiring a POSTDOC on graphical models and statistical learning! deadline: jan 30 1148
Reposted by Gergely NeuICREA Community @icreacommunity.bsky.social · 29/12/2025#NousICREAs2025 |📊 Gergely Neu (@neu-rips.bsky.social @upf.edu) estudia els fonaments de l’aprenentatge automàtic i IA, amb l’objectiu de desenvolupar algoritmes més transparents i robustos, capaços de prendre decisions fiables en el món real. short.do/JYHhN1 063
Reposted by Gergely NeuTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 22/12/2025Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI". 13822284
Reposted by Gergely NeuICREA Community @icreacommunity.bsky.social · 15/12/20254️⃣ #recercairesICREA han aconseguit una ERC Consolidator Grant (@erc.europa.eu). 🔶Vladimir Asriyan 🔶Rebekah Clements 🔶Gergely Neu 🔶I Marc Garcia, que s'incorpora a ICREA properament! 👏Enhorabona per aquest ajut que us permetrà consolidar els vostres projectes! 🔗 short.do/AWRd_V 132
Reposted by Gergely NeuHagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 17/11/2025In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science. The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.nytimes.comJeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive 8427174
Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social · 13/12/2025one of those (innumerable) days when i just can't get @6organs.bsky.social tunes out of my head. guess I'll just have to lean into it 050
Reposted by Gergely NeuICML Conference @icmlconf.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Announcing the ICML 2026 policy for LLMs in reviewing! Reviewers and authors both pick either conservative or permissive LLM use, and will be matched accordingly. Importantly: authors on papers who choose conservative must obey the conservative policy as reviewers. 22310
Reposted by Gergely NeuUniversitat Pompeu Fabra @upf.edu · 10/12/2025#Recerca Quatre investigadors vinculats a la #UPFBarcelona desenvoluparan la seva recerca innovadora gràcies als ajuts ERC Consolidator Grant 2025 atorgats per l'European Research Council @erc.europa.eu L'enhorabona! 👏👏👏 1113
Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social · 09/12/2025immensely grateful & happy to be among the recipients 🙏🙏🙏 7300
Reposted by Gergely Neulet-all.com @let-all.com · 07/12/2025The Learning Theory Alliance (LeT-All) also had a social at #EurIPS this year! Featuring a panel discussion as well as mentoring tables afterwards. Building community on multiple continents at the same time! 0102
Reposted by Gergely NeuGautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 07/12/2025One thing I really love about EurIPS is how so many different people and groups pitched in to make it happen. A true community effort. This echoes the philosophy of the Learning Theory Alliance, and I'm glad the crew (inc @neu-rips.bsky.social @amartyasanyal.bsky.social) did such a great job! 0111
Reposted by Gergely NeuNeurIPS Europe @neuripseurope.bsky.social · 07/12/2025It's a wrap! After 3 main conference days, 1 #ELLIS UnConference day, and now 2 Workshop days #EurIPS is officially over. Thank you to you all for your support and engagement, it has been truly overwhelming in the most positive way. 0294
Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social · 01/12/2025happy to finally share some BIG news: today i'm starting a new job as an ICREA research professor (@icreacommunity.bsky.social) at @upf.edu. this is literally the best job ever and i'm looking forward to all the exciting work i'll get to do now that i am tenured! 10392
Reposted by Gergely Neuda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 09/11/2025BYE - dashare.zone ADMIN 0728245
Reposted by Gergely NeuDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 02/11/2025i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake 1/ 3610172
Reposted by Gergely Neuda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 29/10/2025COME ON - dashare.zone ADMIN 0482110
Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social · 29/10/2025i'm looking forward to attending & contributing to the first ever EurIPS meeting (@euripsconf.bsky.social #EurIPS)! glad that i can learn about the most exciting ML research without having to travel to the US to attend a 15k+ person conference. some personal highlights of the program below. 1/n 1192
Reposted by Gergely NeuELLIS @ellis.eu · 21/10/2025How can AI learn not just from data — but through interaction and intervention? Join us for the Interactive Learning & Interventional Representations, part of the ELLIS UnConference (in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 on Dec 2), co-located with #EurIPS. 161
Reposted by Gergely NeuClaire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi and Matteo Papini are putting together a great unconference workshop at the @ellis.eu day at @euripsconf.bsky.social If you want to talk about RL, causality, bandits, online learning, join us there on December 2nd sites.google.com/view/ilir-wo...sites.google.comILIR Workshop, Dec 2, 2025This workshop covers current research topics in reinforcement learning and causality, and in particular questions at the interface of these research areas. Of particular interest this year are also qu... 1207
Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social · 08/09/2025check out this PhD opportunity for female students from Africa at @upf.edu : www.upf.edu/web/phd-engi... i have hired my amazing student @NnekaOkolo4 via this program, which was a great success. hope i can find someone this time as well! let me know if you have any questionsupf.eduDorcas Muthoni PhD Fellowship - PhD in Information and Communication Technologies - UPF 063
Reposted by Gergely NeuTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 22/08/2025Lol, we need the "AI" that is killing the environment and guzzling untold amounts of resources to save the environment. This is 1984 type of marketing, like "ministry of peace" that is actually the war department. 17669238
Reposted by Gergely NeuBen Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 04/08/2025I’m excited to announce that my new book, _The Irrational Decision_, is now available for pre-order from Princeton University Press.press.princeton.eduThe Irrational DecisionHow the computer revolution shaped our conception of rationality—and why human problems require solutions rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgment 712130
Reposted by Gergely Neuda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 28/07/2025NEVER !! - dashare.zone ADMIN 02786896
Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social · 28/07/2025dear reviewers, of course that "no pdf" rebuttal policy is not going to stop me from running all those wonderful new baselines you just suggested, please find the results below 3360
Reposted by Gergely NeuUlrike Luxburg @ulrikeluxburg.bsky.social · 21/07/2025I love the #eurips initiative! But to live up to its potential, it should be accepted an official #neurips conference location (similar to Mexico City) and not just an addon! Then we would save C02, rather than adding to it!!! What can we do to achieve this? 17520
Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social · 16/07/2025what's the opposite of FOMO called again? either way, i'm right in the middle of that (hope everyone else is doing fine at #ICML2025 nevertheless!) 0150
Reposted by Gergely NeuNeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 16/07/2025NeurIPS is endorsing EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present NeurIPS work in Europe concurrently with NeurIPS. Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website: blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n... eurips.cceurips.cceurips.ccA NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark 112439
Reposted by Gergely Neuda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 29/06/2025THINK ABOTU IT - dashare.zone ADMIN 034351154
Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social · 30/05/2025for the first time since forever, today i felt like a "normal" person should feel like on a friday afternoon. chilled out, not worried about deadlines, todo lists, inbox etc. all it took was staying up until 5am last night to finish a grant proposal 😂😂 #ADHD or #academia? discuss! 2100
Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social · 27/05/2025wanna know how to do inverse Q-learning right? read this paper then!! joint work with the best team of students ever ♥️ 0152
Gergely Neu @neu-rips.bsky.social · 26/05/2025new work on computing distances between stochastic processes ***based on sample paths only***! we can now: - learn distances between Markov chains - extract "encoder-decoder" pairs for representation learning - with sample- and computational-complexity guarantees read on for some quick details.. 1/n 13510