I made a code sniping agent to detect when new AI papers with code (and weights) are released, and then automatically create a Gradio demo on Hugging Face 🧙
I call this agent CheatCode (https://github.com/jbilcke-hf/CheatCode) because it skips so many steps that it kinda feels like breaking the rules of the AI tech release game 😅
As with any experimental technology, there is still room for improvement 👩🏻🔬:
- Currently the demos are all generated in one go and not built or tested by the agent itself. A more robust version should loop over the deployed app to fix build/runtime issues. - There is still a bit of human curation done to avoid making demos for things that can’t really be demonstrated on ZeroGPU (eg. tasks taking several minutes) - Some papers can actually be showcased in a variety of ways, which isn’t really supported (see Demo 2)
🌎 AI ethics and sustainability are two sides of the same coin.
In our new blog post with Dr. Sasha Luccioni, we argue that separating them (as is too often the case) means missing the bigger picture of how AI systems impact both people and the planet.
Ethical and sustainable AI development can’t be pursued in isolation. The same choices that affect who benefits or is harmed by AI systems also determine how much energy and resources they consume.
We explore how two key concepts, evaluation and transparency, can serve as bridges between these domains:
📊 Evaluation, by moving beyond accuracy or performance metrics to include environmental and social costs, as we’ve done with tools like the AI Energy Score.
🔍 Transparency, by enabling reproducibility, accountability, and environmental reporting through open tools like the Environmental Transparency Space.
AI systems mirror our priorities. If we separate ethics from sustainability, we risk building technologies that are efficient but unjust, or fair but unsustainable.
Online training methods (e.g., GRPO) require real-time generation, a compute- and memory-heavy bottleneck.
TRL has built-in vLLM support and in this new recipe, we show how to leverage it for efficient online training. Run on Colab ⚡, scale to multi-GPU/multi-node!
AI for Scientific Discovery Won't Work Without Fixing How We Collaborate.
My co-author @cgeorgiaw and I just published a paper challenging a core assumption: that the main barriers to AI in science are technical. They're not. They're social.
Key findings:
🚨 The "AI Scientist" myth delays progress: Waiting for AGI devalues human expertise and obscures science's real purpose: cultivating understanding, not just outputs. 📊 Wrong incentives: Datasets have 100x longer impact than models, yet data curation is undervalued. ⚠️ Broken collaboration: Domain scientists want understanding. ML researchers optimize performance. Without shared language, projects fail. 🔍 Fragmentation costs years: Harmonizing just 9 cancer files took 329 hours.
Why this matters: Upstream bottlenecks like efficient PDE solvers could accelerate discovery across multiple sciences. CASP mobilized a community around protein structure, enabling AlphaFold. We need this for dozens of challenges.
Thus, we're launching Hugging Science! A global community addressing these barriers through collaborative challenges, open toolkits, education, and community-owned infrastructure. Please find all the links below!