When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

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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The Trump administration continues to degrade America’s scientific establishment, causing widespread harm to the country’s broader interests and well-being. Last week, the Association of American Univ...

Tom Mitchell literally wrote the book on machine learning -- the technology that underlies today's trillion dollar artificial intelligence (AI) industry. In ...

What machine learning theorists learned using AI agents to generate proofs — and what comes next.

Preprint repositories and conference organizers are having to counter a tide of ‘AI slop’ submissions.

The machine learning-driven system for identifying visual information has grown the citizen-science apps Merlin and iNaturalist, led to the development of key datasets, and jump-started the field of i...

Speech and Language Processing

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Plaintiffs and defendants in copyright lawsuits over generative AI often make sweeping, opposing claims about the extent to which large language models (LLMs) have memorized plaintiffs' protected expr...

Two pioneers of reinforcement learning have won the $1mn prize from the Association for Computing Machinery

Imagining a new syllabus for a first course on machine learning.

GenCast, a probabilistic weather model using artificial intelligence for weather forecasting, has greater skill and speed than the top operational medium-range weather forecast in the world and provid...

Flow matching and diffusion models are two popular frameworks in generative modeling. Despite seeming similar, there is some confusion in the community about their exact connection. In this post, we a...