It found it interesting to re-read this post by Mohammed AlQuraishi from 10 years ago (2013). moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/wha… He was mostly right, except that the development of AI into a mass-market technology started earlier than he expected.

Funny how the replies reveal that many people can't actually shape rotate in their mind

Congratulations to Durk Kingma and Max Welling for winning the inaugural ICLR Test of Time Award for their amazing work on Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes, the paper that proposed Variational Autoencoders! arxiv.org/abs/1312.6114

Thanks to the ICLR Award Committee! And thank you for the kind words, Max! You were the perfect Ph.D. advisor and collaborator, kind and inspiring. I really couldn't have wished for better.

📢 Excited to share EM Distillation (EMD), a maximum likelihood method that distills pretrained diffusion models to one-step generators. EMD gracefully interpolates between mode-seeking and mode-covering KL to better capture the teacher's distribution. arxiv.org/abs/2405.16852

#Master #AI at UvA Amsterdam closing the academic year with Durk Kingma