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Aurelie Herbelot is moving

  1. A few years ago, a friend gave me the challenge of writing a fictional without adjectives or adverbs. Today, I found what I'd written at the time, and the narrative looks so strikingly similar to the world of 2025 that I thought I'd share it.

    It's about a neoliberal government, forbidden words and a .

    aurelieherbelot.net/fiction/no

  2. How to break an AI (the illustrated guide 🤖 )

    I am posting this for fun, to show how fragile systems are, and how ridiculous it is to imply that they are intelligent or could wipe us out.

    1) Grab a model. For this demo, I will take GPT2 because it fits on my laptop.

    2) Copy-paste code for running and fine-tuning the AI. You can take mine here, which will also download for you: github.com/possible-worlds-res.

    Optional: see how the model, for now, is working as it should… 1/4

  3. On My Disk is a personal cloud storage solution that keeps your files secure and private. We are integrating PeARS search into the service to make your files incredibly easy to find, regardless of their physical location.

    One ideal shared by PeARS and On My Disk is energy efficiency. So we are dedicated to create 'small AI' solutions that combine old and new machine learning techniques, to create the most climate-friendly NLP tools 🍃 🍐

  4. This week on Denotation IO, our video series 'AI in the Woods' continues 🌳 🦊 This time, a short introduction to the formal notions of meaning and possible worlds. Discover how you routinely generate a multitude of parallel worlds as you speak, and how you can 'point' at objects in those worlds using your meaning faculty.

    Can AI systems do this yet? Ur... not really.

    Find out more at denotation.io/aiinthewoods/ or right here: vimeo.com/785994052

  5. Today is my last day in a university position so I wanted to write a few things about ⬇️

    A thread on , Computational Linguistics and . Above all: on loving your object of study and owning it. \1