Amir-massoud Farahmand

@SoloGen

Vision: Understanding the computational and statistical principles required to design adaptive agents.
Associate Prof @polymtl @Mila_Quebec 🇨🇦
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada academic.sologen.net Joined July 2008

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Amir-massoud Farahmand @SoloGen 11h

Ideas matter!
Personally, I prefer exploring them and coming up with new ones, instead of scaling up the compute (though that is fun too).
Nowadays, however, there is a chance that the next set of very good ideas comes from the machines.

Richard Sutton Verified account @RichardSSutton 2d

Brute force computation is not enough for intelligence. Clever new methods are needed. The science of AI is far from finished. IMHO
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Amir-massoud Farahmand @SoloGen 3d

I don't think this is right, is it?!

[These undergraduate authors withdrew all their 9 submissions to #ICLR2027 as they received negative reviews.]

Amir-massoud Farahmand @SoloGen 6d

The Islamic Republic killed many thousands of Iranians. Almost none of the "western" folks whom I'd expected to react said anything meaningful about it.
Seeing Peter, whose books I love, mentioning sth about it, even in passing, is so rare that feels refreshing.
Thank you!

Peter Godfrey-Smith Verified account @pgodfreysmith 6d

@birchlse An undeniably striking fact. Setting aside the end of the world, a case that bothered me was the January protests in Iran. Ignored nearly everywhere, with the only updates here. A week, at least, ahead of the press on the magnitude of the Nova massacre. Many others.
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Amir-massoud Farahmand @SoloGen Oct 31

From a global equality and liberal perspective, it's quite great idea that everyone runs their own local LLM. This isn't possible with current AI architecture and hardware, but we can make it happen, as evident by the 20W devices in your home that are as smart as you are (*).

Amir-massoud Farahmand @SoloGen Oct 30

I have never really got into Star Trek, but Captain Jean-Luc Picard has been an important part of the cultural fabric of our geekdom. Godspeed Patrick Stewart! 🖖