Dex Hunter-Torricke

Working to reclaim our future from Big Tech | Previously @google @spacex @meta @UN

[Dex Hunter-Torricke @DexBarton]

@MikeIsaac Lol the world is hanging on his every word with bated breath. Yeah, Mark Zuckerberg is exactly who societies are hoping comes up with a solution for superb intelligence

[Dex Hunter-Torricke @DexBarton]

@MikeIsaac The squirrel was immediately offered a job leading Meta's AI strategy.

[Dex Hunter-Torricke @DexBarton]

@ednewtonrex Now they should explain why Sovereign AI is backing US-owned companies.

[Dex Hunter-Torricke @DexBarton]

@MikeIsaac Gotta admire Meta's dedication to wasting billions of dollars on Looney Tunes financial related shit that tech bros and memevestors love (cf: Libra, NFTs...). Can't believe morale is down at the company!

[Dex Hunter-Torricke @DexBarton]

@brexton The rot started during the 2010s. In the years after the IPO the absolute worst corporate raider and DC politico types came in and the company started doing more and more stupid things. Slow motion car crash more than a decade in the making.

[Dex Hunter-Torricke @DexBarton]

@ednewtonrex Take a look at some of the other 'sovereign' investments we've made. Just disgusting cronyism at work.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

2 months ago, the UK's Sovereign AI Fund announced that it was giving Odyssey taxpayer-funded compute. Today, Odyssey raised $310 million.

Call me old-fashioned, but I don't think we should be diverting UK taxpayers' money to US-headquartered AI companies that can raise hundreds of millions of dollars and that therefore surely don't need a handout.

[Dex Hunter-Torricke @DexBarton]

The completely unsubtle intertwining of Big Tech and US political power is supposed to intimidate the other nations. Smug tech leaders think they are untouchable.

As usual with cartoon villains, they are absolutely setting the stage for their own defeat.

[Ejaaz @cryptopunk7213]

dario seated on the opposite side of the room like a schoolboy being reprimanded while sam and demis sit either side of Trump… yeah this fable ban might last a while

such a shame, genuinely think the U.S. needs to take a better stance. fable is an amazing model and this cannot be the approach we take for future model releases.

[Dex Hunter-Torricke @DexBarton]

@GergelyOrosz I was at Facebook from just before the IPO through some of the critical early years as a public company. What that company has become is a disgrace. They have repeatedly whiffed on product, strategy, culture, societal impact, largely due to talent misteps.

[Dex Hunter-Torricke @DexBarton]

@MikeIsaac "The world is changing in ways that are out of our control" says dude possessing massive wealth/influence who repeatedly fails to even try and shape the world in ways that solve the problems ailing Meta (and our societies). A decade of rot at Meta is building to a climax.

[Dex Hunter-Torricke @DexBarton]

@alexeheath Most of the execs at the center of the AI race hate each other. They are desperate to win the AGI race for ego as much as any potential societal value. It's like one big game, with the stakes as the future of humanity.

[Dex Hunter-Torricke @DexBarton]

@SpaceX It's rare to see a technological feat that just makes your jaw drop, but there it is

[Jonathan Citrin @jon_citrin]

Excited to announce the release of TORAX, a tokamak transport simulator from our @GoogleDeepMind Fusion team! #fusionenergy

- Open-source: https://t.co/QCobr8mTsJ
- Uses JAX: fast, differentiable
- Easy coupling of ML-surrogates

Hot off the press → https://t.co/oXHakB8wBb

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Scientists from 120 countries have now used #AlphaFold Server to complete more than 620,000 jobs - to help test multiple hypotheses, predict complex interactions between proteins and DNA, and more. 🔬

Find out more in @Nature ↓
https://t.co/ba3Hf1HryC

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Looking forward later today to the #Tribeca2024 premiere of The Thinking Game - a new documentary about the story of @GoogleDeepMind, AGI & AlphaFold, by Greg Kohs with music by Dan Deacon; it’s a sequel of sorts to the award-winning AlphaGo documentary https://t.co/1vs4F1pjNF

[Dex Hunter-Torricke @DexBarton]

"Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another. Keep reading. Keep writing. Keep fighting. We're all still here."

[Séb Krier @sebkrier]

🔭 Very happy to share @GoogleDeepMind's exploratory framework to ensure future powerful capabilities from frontier models are detected and mitigated. We're starting with an initial focus on Autonomy, Biosecurity, Cybersecurity, and Machine Learning R&D. 🚀https://t.co/Foi0aBwTzT

[Vivek Natarajan @vivnat]

alphafold 3, human brain connectomics, med-gemini, amie, …

i try not to think about competitors too much, but i cannot stop thinking about the aesthetic difference between using ai to solve deep, hard grand challenges in medicine & science and building waifus

🙃

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

Google just announced huge Gemini updates, a Sora competitor, AI agents, and more.

The 12 most impressive announcements at Google I/O:

1. Project Astra: An AI agent that can see AND hear what you do live in real-time.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

With its advanced reasoning capabilities, our prototype agent Project Astra was able to identify a number of famous faces in science - from just a few drawings. ✏️