Conference talks worth your timeStanford Online
Amit Jain outlines why video encodes 3D geometry through time, making it richer training data than images, then explains how Luma's single shared-latent-space transformer enables multi-turn dialogue and iterative refinement — capabilities absent from diffusion-only or modality-siloed architectures.
AI Engineer
Factory's Missions system chains planner, worker, and validator agents serially—avoiding conflicts from parallelization—with a correctness contract defined before coding begins. Workers inherit clean state from predecessors; validators span linting, type-checking, and live user-testing. Longest production run: 16 days.
PyData
Julia Mertens fine-tunes GPT-2 on dialogue data and measures surprisal against human reading times on controlled stimuli. The model treats natural same-speaker continuations as more surprising than incongruent ones—a reversal that persists regardless of scale and mirrors the Moses illusion, where prior representations override bottom-up input processing.
NDC Conferences
Jon McCoy argues prompt injection concern reflects survivor bias while the real threat is multi-agent, multi-team data lake access without workload isolation. Recommends treating data lake connections as internet-exposed endpoints, decomposing lakes by workload, and having security teams own every data pull.