Behrad Toghi

AI Scientist, Alpinist, Former Race Driver

[Behrad Toghi @BToghi]

“Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”

[Behrad Toghi @BToghi]

@apartovi @neo Can graduates also apply? :)

[Ali Partovi @apartovi]

Two amazing inspirations in one photo. 😍😍😍

[Behrad Toghi @BToghi]

@NaveenGRao @MosaicML @code_star @jefrankle I’m fully supportive of both of you dropping out 🚀

[Behrad Toghi @BToghi]

@GaryMarcus Tesla sold ~0.2m cars in the US in 2020 while Toyota sold ~2.1m cars. Assuming ALL Teslas have ADAS and only 1/3 of Toyota’s do have ADAS and assuming a Tesla driver is twice as likely to engage ADAS, still more L2 miles for Toyota (& others)

[Behrad Toghi @BToghi]

@GaryMarcus I’m not sure if Tesla has the most mikes driven with an L2 ADAS activated…

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Big changes for AI R&D at Meta!

- FAIR remains FAIR: No change in the modus operandi and mission.
- FAIR is now part of Reality Labs - Research (RLR) under Michael Abrash. RLR is a wide-ranging research organization that now includes AI.
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[Behrad Toghi @BToghi]

Our work on “sympathetic RL agents” with @DorsaSadigh : https://t.co/ZPaeO1qaUj

[Ilya Sutskever @ilyasut]

Something like emotion may emerge in RL agents because emotion seems to lie at the root of action

[Behrad Toghi @BToghi]

Danke Niki! #NikiLauda #nürburgring

[Ali Partovi @apartovi]

Unlike VCs predicting doom, I’m bullish for early-stage startups. This downturn differs from 2000 & 2008 (see why below). If you’re an early-stage CEO, don’t panic. Don’t obsess about extending runway. Obsess about making something people want, and hire superstars to help. 1/n

[Behrad Toghi @BToghi]

@CipherModeLabs @iendeavors @pillar_vc @NSF Incredibly proud of @SadeghRiazi and his team! It’s been a fun ride the last 13 years buddy!

[Behrad Toghi @BToghi]

@ebiyik_ Very well deserved @ebiyik_ ! Congrats to @CSatUSC

[Dorsa Sadigh @DorsaSadigh]

We are looking for early stage researchers (yes, it means you Ph.D. students and postdocs) to act as respondents at our #RSS2022 workshop.

The role of respondents is to help with guiding the discussion and conducting a 30-min fireside chat with one of the speakers!

[Behrad Toghi @BToghi]

@NiloufarKhavari @nioshaafshar @TiamMohamadzade I disagree.

[Dorsa Sadigh @DorsaSadigh]

WAFR deadline is approaching! Check out the call for papers!
The contribution areas are now expanded to be more inclusive of all areas of foundations of robotics research #WAFR22

[Shimon Whiteson @shimon8282]

Benchmarks are important since they constrain the task, forcing you to improve the algorithm instead. That's why I'm more impressed by results on a benchmark than on a task the authors invented. The fact that the task existed before the algorithm makes the results more credible.

[Behrad Toghi @BToghi]

I’ve been an advocate for “self-driving cars are at least 10yrs away from us”, but seems like I was wrong..? https://t.co/YsohLjlM1S

[Behrad Toghi @BToghi]

How are they going to "cooperate" with each other and "sympathize" with humans? If you are interested to know more, here is my talk at #IROS2021:
https://t.co/seDEUpfbE4

Feel free to also check our paper with @DorsaSadigh on this subject:
https://t.co/ZPaeO1qaUj

[Behrad Toghi @BToghi]

ROBOTS & HUMANS!!!

Now that I have your attention let me tell you how the pictures below relate to my line of work, #autonomousdriving !

What is going to happen when we put bunch of #selfdrivingcars on the streets and surround them with humans?

[Behrad Toghi @BToghi]

"When you practice mediocrity, you literally get better at being mediocre"
-Nicole Glaros @nglaros