Thanks for all you've done for many of us, @geoffreyhinton Keep distilling your knowledge back to the world, and may your gradients never vanish!
@oriolvinyalsml
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FOOL: Novel Optimization Method Impacting AGI Research Progress
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Introducing Fictitious Optimization & Obfuscation Learning. FOOL is a cutting-edge method based on the latest in artificial stupidity & irrational reasoning. Its key advance is to randomly change the direction of gradients during optimization. It may also slow down AGI research.
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Experimenting with AI-generated tweets instead of manual writing
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I tried a non-AI tweet — that didn't last long!
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USB-C Innovation: A Game Changer for Tech Infrastructure
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To whoever invented USB-C: THANK YOU!!
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Neural Conversational Models: A Decade of Progress
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Congrats to the whole team! @quocleix
, we've come a long way since "A Neural Conversational Model" from 2015. I remember how, at the time, many people criticized our work and said it was a dead end. Admittedly, the paper wasn't that great -

Geoffrey accused of stealing distillation paper introduction
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Noooo Geoffrey, stealing this from the intro of our distillation paper?
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Builders over critics: celebrating those who create
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Criticism is easy, and gets a lot of attention these days. And, as we all know, attention is all (some people) need. To those who build: you rock!
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Reinforcement Learning Versus Large Language Models Effectiveness
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Yup! Actions > Words. Corollary: Reinforcement Learning > Large Language Models??
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DeepMind Welcomes New Researcher to Team
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Welcome to @DeepMind! Looking forward to working together on drastic research! Also, an additional excuse to visit New York and the Bay Area