Abeba Birhane: fear what powerful people do with AI, not AI itself

A first-year PhD student working at the intersection of controls, ML, and robotics asks where the field is heading as papers increasingly amount to plugging a large foundation model into existing systems. The r/robotics post questions the "blackboxification" trend in robotics research.

ComfyUI renders all visible links and nodes continuously, dropping framerate to single digits when panning congested graphs. The NodeSnapshots extension caches that frontend rendering for a claimed 2-3x FPS gain.

A LocalLLaMA user ran GLM 5.3 Flash on 8-bit vLLM across 4x DGX systems, prompting it to download Remotion and build a 60-second stock-market motion graphics video. They called the result "really good."

A single decode step can launch an RMS norm layer around 33 times, and FlashNorm attacks that overhead by folding weights and using CUDA streams. Talk by Filip Makraduli, who wrote the paper with Nils.