Ana de Prado

Machine Learning & Robotics.
Maker. Robonauta.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

«If you wish to understand the universe, think of energy, frequency, and vibration»

— Nikola Tesla

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

Is it weird that AI coding assistance is not giving me identity fracture?

A lot of software developers are feeling disoriented and threatened these days. Programming by hand is clearly going the way of the buggy whip and the hand-cranked auger. Which is how we're finding out that a lot of people have their identities bound up in being good at hand-coding and how it feels to do that.

That's not me. It's not me at all. Rather to my surprise, I don't miss coding by hand, not any more than I missed writing assembler when compilers ate the world and made that unnecessary. (That was in a couple years back around 1983, for you youngsters.)

Maybe the fact that I'm not feeling any of this disorientation disqualifies me from having anything to say to people who are. On the other hand...if you can learn to emulate my mental stance and be completely unbothered, maybe that would be a good thing?

So. If you're a programmer, and you're feeling disoriented, try this on for size:

I like being a wizard. I like being able to speak spells, to weave complex patterns of logic that make things happen in the world. Writing code is a way to manifest my will.

Yes, I've piled up a lot of arcane knowledge over the 50 years I've been doing this. But languages of invocation, they come and they go. Been a long time since I've had any use for being able to program in 8086 assembler, and that's okay. I have better spells now, and these days some rather powerful familiars.

What I'm inviting you to do is think of yourself as a wizard. Not as a person who writes code, but as a person who is good at assuming the kind of mental states required to bend reality with the application of spells.

And if that's who you are, does it matter if the spells are painstakingly scribed in runes of power, versus being spoken to an obedient machine spirit?

It's all one; it's all the manifestation of will. Arcane languages come and go, machine spirits appear and then diminish to be replaced by more powerful ones, but you? You are the magic-wielder. Without you, none of it happens.

Same as it ever was. Same is it ever was. And so mote it be.

[Laura Lacarra 👩🏻‍💻 @LauraLacarra]

🔴¡IMPORTANTE! Y AYUDA

Han hackeado la cuenta de @almuariza. Gran periodista española ahora de corresponsal en el conflicto Israel/Palestina.

Igual que cuando bloquearon muchas cuentas de X, solo hay que hacer mucho ruido para que @X le ayude y la libere

#HELPAlmuderaAriza

[Aprendemos juntos 2030 @AprenderJuntos_]

¿Cómo de inteligente puede llegar a ser una inteligencia artificial? Nerea Luis (@sailormerqury), doctora en IA, explica el estado actual de esta tecnología. "Todavía estamos lejos de ese escenario "Terminator".

[Ana de Prado @Anandromeda]

@IGN_es Peach Ninja FTW!! #DemoPrincessPeach

[Eduardo Borges @duborges]

This video was generated by Sora.

That's the new model by OpenAI. The most advanced text-to-video tool created so far.

I'll share the videos here. Absolutely insane.

Prompt: This close-up shot of a Victoria crowned pigeon showcases its striking blue plumage and red chest. Its crest is made of delicate, lacy feathers, while its eye is a striking red color. The bird’s head is tilted slightly to the side, giving the impression of it looking regal and majestic. The background is blurred, drawing attention to the bird’s striking appearance.

[Miriam Rey Rejas @MiriamReyR]

Que ganazas!!! Nos vemos el día 26 con Ana de Prado @Anandromeda explicándonos cómo entrenar una AI sin tocar los datos 🤯 🔝 @Spain_AI_ @Intelygenz

[Ana de Prado @Anandromeda]

@llvilarrubies @Spain_AI_ @Intelygenz Gracias @llvilarrubies! ^^

[Spain AI @Spain_AI_]

Ya no queda nada para el #MadridAI del 26 de octubre! 😍
Las entradas están agotadas🎟️🔥desde hace semanas, pero no podemos aguantarnos para contarte más!
🗣️Juan Jose Saez, experto en innovación en
@SASEspana nos hace un adelanto⬇️
Seguiremos haciendo spoiler...🙊#ia #ai #techie

[Spain AI @Spain_AI_]

Y nos vamos al finde con un último spoiler de nuestro #MadridAI 🤖, y es que la charla de @Anandromeda data scientist 👩‍💻en @Intelygenz promete!
👉¿Se puede entrenar #IA sin tocar los datos?😯

No olvidéis que aunque las entradas están agotadas, la lista de espera ¡sigue abierta!

[Spain AI @Spain_AI_]

📢N O T I C I Ó N📢
Nuestro próximo encuentro #MadridAI 🤖ya tiene fecha!!
📆 Jueves 26/10 18:30h
📍@iLABMadrid
🗣️Hablamos de #iA con @Anandromeda @Intelygenz y Juanjo Saez @SASEspana
🍻Networking, aperitivos...
Las plazas son limitadas ¡reserva ya!🎟️
https://t.co/KiZsZ5T6R7 #AI

[koder 404 @404Koder]

Experiencia de entrenamiento de la IA con @Anandromeda y @McmillonColleen @T3chFest #T3chFest2023

[Ana de Prado @Anandromeda]

@cesartuit @T3chFest Qué coincidencia genial! ojalá verte por más eventos 😻

[César Peña ❤️‍🩹 Viva la Sanidad Pública @cesartuit]

La ilusión que me ha hecho descubrir que voy a coincidir dando una charla el mismo día en @T3chFest con @Anandromeda!!! ❤️

[Ana de Prado @Anandromeda]

UC3M lover 😍

[Ana de Prado @Anandromeda]

@alipeji @G_Beaa habéis explicado genial los modelos de difusión! 😻🤖 resultados chulísimos que habéis conseguido... Ojito con estas cracks de la IA!

[B E A @G_Beaa]

Me encanta lo divertida y entretenida la charla de Colleen y Ana sobre modelos de difusión en #T3chFest2023 . Vaya unas titanas!!

[Alicia PJ @alipeji]

Grandes Ana & Colleen @Intelygenz #T3chFest2023