Francesco Lässig
Francesco Lässig
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If LLMs Are Just Parrots, Humans Are Just Gene Propagators
Pointing at a loss function is not a valid substitute for an actual engagement with the behaviors and internal representations a model has developed.
Last updated on Mar 29, 2026
Posts
AI Learning Coach (Vireo)
A multi-agent AI system for Entlastungsdienst Bern that assesses care workers’ competencies through conversation, creates personalised learning paths, and enables interactive training. Semi-finalist, GenAI Awards 2026.
Last updated on Apr 1, 2026
Apps
Sovereign AI Platform (LLMify)
An on-premise and Swiss-cloud platform for running open-source LLMs, giving businesses full control over their data. Deployed across multiple client industries.
Last updated on Apr 1, 2026
Apps
Consciousness and Unambiguous Representations
My thoughts on how consciousness should be tackled from a representationalist perspective based on ideas from phenomenal structuralism. Includes an ML-based experiment of how I think one could go about decoding conscious content from neural systems using self-attention.
Last updated on Dec 20, 2025
Articles
arXiv
MoC6 Talk
Neurons, Representations and Consciousness
Some thoughts on the connection between neurons as physical objects, neural representations, and subjective experience.
Last updated on Feb 25, 2024
Posts
Hard, Real, and Core Problems of Consciousness
A look at three formulations of the problem of consciousness, their metaphysical assumptions, and their implications for science.
Last updated on Jan 14, 2023
Posts
The Meta-Problem of Consciousness
A presentation about the meta-problem of consciousness as described by David Chalmers.
Last updated on Mar 3, 2025
Presentations
Probabilistic Forecasting in Darts
A blog post introducing probabilistic forecasting in the
Darts
open source time series library, including an artificial and a real-world example.
Last updated on Dec 29, 2022
Posts
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Darts
PyData Global 2021 - Darts Presentation
A presentation of the
Darts
open source library from the PyData Global 2021 conference by Francesco Lässig and Julien Herzen.
Last updated on Dec 29, 2022
Presentations
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Darts
EuroPython 2021 - Darts Presentation
A talk abut the
Darts
open source library from the EuroPython Global 2021 conference by Gael Grosch and Francesco Lässig.
Last updated on Dec 29, 2022
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