Artificial Intelligence·1 min read

Nice explainer: https://ibmm-unibe-ch.github.io/SMILES_or_SELFIES/

Artificial Intelligence

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13321-025-01099-w

Nice explainer: ibmm-unibe-ch.github.io/SMILES_or_SELFIES

Beyond performance: how design choices shape chemical language models

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Artificial Intelligence

You in Control?

First installment: you think you are in control but your [social media, AII chatbot, ...] is controlling you.

1 min · Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence

Winning at bullshit

The delightfully named Bullshit Benchmark (really the BS Detection Benchmark) by Peter Gostev is really worth looking at. Yet another benchmark you say? Another benchmark, yes, but one that addresses how LLM…

1 min · Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence

Who is using AI to code?

Science paper ( with unsurprising but specific results. The authors measured the fraction of Python functions in more than 30 million GitHub commits from 160k software developers they could detect were…

1 min · Artificial Intelligence
Human + Machine

When Not to Use AI as a Cognitive Escalator

There is this concept of AI-driven cognitive atrophy going around. It may happen, there is ample evidence that our ability to perform some tasks degrades when we stop performing them. But the key here is to…

2 min · Human + Machine
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