Massimo Ruffolo

#Researcher in #MachineIntelligence =(#MachineLearning + #AI) #Entrepreneur #Founder @altiliagroup #Innovator... A better world is possible

[Ahmad @TheAhmadOsman]

i have fully dropped Claude Code for OpenCode

i donʼt use Opus 4.5,
i use GLM-4.7 and MiniMax-M2.1
theyʼre opensource and can be self-hosted

nobody can nerf my models or rug pull me
nobody should be able to do that to your intelligence

p.s. buy a GPU and run your LLMs locally

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

Haha! Good one.

[elvis @omarsar0]

Cool paper from Microsoft.

And it's on the very important topic of in-context learning.

So what's new?

Let's find out:

[François Chollet @fchollet]

I'll take the other side of this bet...

[Massimo Ruffolo @MassimoRuffolo]

@sama Sam, don’t make proclamations, be rigorous—what exactly was your coding project about and what concrete results did you actually achieve?

[Massimo Ruffolo @MassimoRuffolo]

@jk_rowling There are many forms of genius. It’s well known that genius gives rise to the highest expressions of humanity… yet at the same time, it can spill over into madness and brutality.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Human intelligence is highly specialized.
The term AGI to designate human-level intelligence is nonsense.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Worth repeating:
Do not confuse retrieval with reasoning.
Do not confuse rote learning with understanding.
Do not confuse accumulated knowledge with intelligence.

[Tsarathustra @tsarnick]

Economist Erik Brynjolfsson of Stanford says that machines have increased the value of human labor by 50 times in the past couple hundred years by amplifying and complementing human productivity

[DHH @dhh]

What a beautiful day for programming!

[Massimo Ruffolo @MassimoRuffolo]

@GaryMarcus @GaryMarcus This is not a holy ware! Generative AI is a wonderful invention and a powerful tool. To create value for businesses it requires technological platforms and approaches that allow enterprises to get value from it by deploying it in a secure and effective way.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Thoughts exist without language.

[hardmaru @hardmaru]

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought

https://t.co/lnjn3bcx0A

“Language is a defining characteristic of our species, but the function, or functions, that it serves has been debated for centuries. Here we bring recent evidence from neuroscience and allied disciplines to argue that in modern humans, language is a tool for communication, contrary to a prominent view that we use language for thinking. We begin by introducing the brain network that supports linguistic ability in humans. We then review evidence for a double dissociation between language and thought, and discuss several properties of language that suggest that it is optimized for communication. We conclude that although the emergence of language has unquestionably transformed human culture, language does not appear to be a prerequisite for complex thought, including symbolic thought. Instead, language is a powerful tool for the transmission of cultural knowledge; it plausibly co-evolved with our thinking and reasoning capacities, and only reflects, rather than gives rise to, the signature sophistication of human cognition.”

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Why has productivity (GDP per hour worked) grown faster in the US than in Europe over the last 15 years.

[note: if you think this is because Americans work more than Europeans, you are wrong. Productivity measures output *per hour worked*]

[PicoCreator - AI builder @ ✈️🌉 @picocreator]

So while Silicon Valley tries to block open source AI

China moved ahead with

- qwen2 72B, sliding pass Facebook llama3 70B with clean Apache2 license
- kling, launches a sora like model, before sora

Like they really dun care about your fears or world view, and accelerate

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

The No Language Left Behind paper (NLLB) just appeared in Nature.
High-quality translation between 200 languages in any direction, with sparse training data, and many low-resource languages.

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

I would pick @ylecun over @elonmusk every single day of the week. Despite getting much less $$, recognition & visibility than entrepreneurs, the scientists who publish their groundbreaking research openly are the cornerstone of technological progress & massively contribute to making the world a better place!

[Massimo Ruffolo @MassimoRuffolo]

@LauraEdelson2 Thank you for a so clear analysis. Let's defend OS AI models from lobbyists... The real risks descends from a concentration of AI models in the hands of few companies...

[Laura Edelson @LauraEdelson2]

I'm so tired of being in rooms where people whisper about the absolute ARMY of Big Tech-funded people (most, but not all, ex-Googlers) that have popped up in nearly every corridor in DC where people are working on literally anything to do with AI. So let's talk about it! 1/12

[Massimo Ruffolo @MassimoRuffolo]

These must be considered seriously…
“designing a firehose of addictive content that entered through kids’ eyes and ears”. “by displacing physical play and in-person socializing, these companies have rewired childhood and changed human development on an almost unimaginable scale”

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

A scathing review in Nature of Jonathan Haidt's latest book "The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness" by UC Irvine's Candice Odgers (associate dean for research and professor of psychological science and informatics).

Quote: "An analysis done in 72 countries shows no consistent or measurable associations between well-being and the roll-out of social media globally. Moreover, findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study, the largest long-term study of adolescent brain development in the United States, has found no evidence of drastic changes associated with digital-technology use. Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University, is a gifted storyteller, but his tale is currently one searching for evidence."

https://t.co/yeQmF1GqpX