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Co-lead of Gemini Omni @GoogleDeepMind. Senior Research Director. Find me at https://nitter.cf/t.co/JlpGDPButb
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Why don't modern LLMs have an idea of the passage of time? I have a long running thread with one of them, that I jump in once in a few days, and it always assumes zero seconds passed since my last message. Trivial to fix, no??
4 years ago! time flies...
1/ Today we are excited to introduce Phenaki: phenaki.github.io, short-link-to-paper, a model for generating videos from text, with prompts that can change over time, and that is able to generate videos that can be as long as multiple minutes!
Claim: we've solved the AI slop problem (!) 💩🧹✨
Blog post: facebookresearch.github.io/R…
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Key idea: take *expert* human writing and learn rubrics that find the gap between experts and models. Train with those rubrics.
We train with RL-XAR (RL with eXpert Aligned Rubrics) & see large performance gains on writing scientific paper sections, Pulitzer prize novel continuations and high quality Wikipedia pages.
I had some fun today updating my website using Antigravity. It's amazing how you can just say make it more modern, mobile-friendly, secure, fetch various important things you can find about me etc and it... just works! The future is very, very fun :) dumitru.ca/?t=2
got my haircut in Moldova, guy asked me what I do for work, "ohh, AI, I see why you've been losing your hair, stressful times!!" 😆
Or move to Chişinǎu!
- Strongly Pro-EU
- City littered with cafes and restaurants
- Best wine bar ever
- Flat 12% income tax
Tbilisi 🇬🇪 is the best city to move to right now:
- 1% income tax
- 30 min taxi ride costs under $4
- Berghain-level techno club in the city center
- Cafes open until 11 PM, full of people BUILDING
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Tbilisi's standard personal income tax is 20% on Georgian-source income for residents; the 1% rate is a turnover tax only for qualifying small businesses under 500,000 GEL. Typical 30-min cross-town taxi rides via apps cost 15-20 GEL (~$6-8 USD), not under $4.
taxsummaries.pwc.com/georgia/indivi…
tbilisi-expat.com/blog/tbilisi-t…
thegeorgianguide.com/practical-info…
That's the advantage of having a driver, there's a lot more whimsy in your life. Even on my most recent 8-minute ride in Moldova, I learned the ~65-year old guy moved from Luxembourg to Chișinău to find a wife! Very deep convo in French, even if short: "All I want is peace and quiet at home. I really just want to find a friend I can hang out at home with. I can make her breakfast, and she can sometimes make mine. Is that too much too ask for?"
I have the same crocs! Fun fact, it's my second pair, someone stole them from me at a public pool last year :)
I find it somewhat amusing that the most compelling demos of Opus 5.5 are video gen or world sim. A bit ironic, iykyk :)
Francis argues that intelligence can't dig the mines to double our GDP. I think it's then fair to ask why intelligence alone can secretly build weapons, robot armies, or other kind of infrastructure to end humanity?
Why I Changed My Mind About AI Risk open.substack.com/pub/persua…
Bay Area normative determinism in cycling: front of the group was discussing react, back of the group was talking about OpenAI APIs
