Russ Salakhutdinov and I were both at our first #COLM2026, so I asked him what he made of it. It reminded him of NeurIPS ten years ago, when you could get through all the posters! And he had good advice for early-career researchers.

Russ Salakhutdinov and I were both at our first #COLM2026, so I asked him what he made of it. It reminded him of NeurIPS ten years ago, when you could get through all the posters! And he had good advice for early-career researchers.
I'm at #COLM2026, with the paper "๐ยณ: ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข-๐๐๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข-๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง ๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ค๐จ๐ฏ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ซ๐จ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ" to be presented at the AdvMLxCOTMA workshop.
I'm also covering #COLM through the @wiair.bsky.social - stay tuned on youtube and don't miss any updates ๐๏ธ
New episode of #WiAIRpodcast: Greta Tuckute @gretatuckute.bsky.social talks to @j-novikova-nlp.bsky.social about what brain-LLM alignment does and does not tell us, and why, asked to keep one label out of neuroscience, cognitive science and AI, she drops AI first