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View the opening keynote by Surya Ganguli at the recent Codex FutureLaw conference Stanford Law School, where tech and law intersect: Understanding and Improving Reasoning and Creativity in Modern Generative AI youtu.be/seXFtfZRy3s?si… #techlaw #genAI #AIlaw

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Good advice. Works for achieving long term research goals as well.

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I think it’s even more beautiful if written as e^(i pi) + 1 = 0. Then the additive identity 0 and the multiplicative identity 1 both get brought in to play a role, in addition to differential equations (e), geometry (pi) and algebraic closure (i).

No. Some (biased) counterexamples: A 2D dynamical system predicting mouse brain activity: nature.com/articles/s4158… Random projections and scaling in the brain: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Critical dynamics triggering perception: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Random matrix theory and

Honored to have had my recent work with Surya Ganguli on the mechanisms behind creativity in diffusion models featured in this lovely article by Webb Wright for Quanta magazine!

A great Quanta Magazine article on our theory of creativity in convolutional diffusion models lead by Mason Kamb. See also our paper with new results in version 2: arxiv.org/abs/2412.20292 to be presented as an oral at ICML Conference #icml25 thx Webb Wright !

This syllabus contains ancient antediluvian wisdom from before the flood of deep learning scaling. Young people would do well to master it. E.g Graphical models are essential in AI for science where interpretability and well calibrated uncertainty quantification is needed. They

This week in academia, a not so short🧵... 1. Staff reductions and other cost cutting measures coming to Brown University highereddive.com/news/brown-uni…

In a recent paper, the physicists Mason Kamb (left) and Surya Ganguli found that the creativity in diffusion models is a consequence of their architecture. quantamagazine.org/researchers-un…

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btw, 1) we proved conditions for a simple version of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis for two layer linear networks back in 2019 in our PNASNews paper: A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep nets (Fig. 11): pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… 2) we also showed evidence

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