We are entering the fifth day of complete blackout of communications in Iran. But as George Washington said "Truth will ultimately prevail where pains is taken to bring it to light.”
#DigitalBlackoutIran
⚠️ Update: #Iran has now been offline for 96 hours, limiting reporting and accountability over civilian deaths as Iranians protest and demand change; fixed-line internet, mobile data and calls are disabled, while other communication means are also increasingly being targeted ⌛️
@alec_helbling Nice work. Do you have any intuition for how this extends to small objects or background concepts?
For example, in your clip the saliency map for “tree” doesn’t cover the tiny background trees. Is the ConceptAttention signal inherently biased toward the most prominent instance?
New research from the Yrikka team: Text-to-Model (T2M).
You can now create a custom object detection models with nothing more than a prompt and a few raw images.
No datasets. No labels. No annotation grind.
@Yuchenj_UW Yes, but 3 out of the 4 authors on the original GPT paper did have PhDs: Karthik Narasimhan, Tim Salimans, and Ilya Sutskever. OpenAI in 2018 operated much more like an academic research lab than a tech company.
Same for FAIR when they released PyTorch.
Every week, a new AI-slop newsletter that I never subscribed to hits my inbox. It feels like the “I had pizza for lunch” phase of early social media.
Trivial content is just not engaging. Here’s to moving on.
In CausalARC, Grok-4 is the only model that sustains high accuracy on logical reasoning tasks: Discovering causal rules and scaling them to larger arrays.
This robustness likely reflects how it was trained, with stronger inductive biases for causal/world-model reasoning.
Congrats to the @krea_ai team for their incredible work improving the aesthetics and realism of FLUX. @MaxClouser shows Krea's frequency signature is almost identical to real images, much closer than the FLUX Dev.
FLUX.1 Krea is out! I compared it to FLUX.1 Dev in the frequency domain using 50 real NYC photos and found Krea aligns closer to reality. Check it out:
https://t.co/eDRpX3hen4
@fchollet I learned some basic Spanish a few years ago but gradually got less out of it as they started over-optimizing for user engagement and not enough for learning.