Dumitru Erhan

Co-lead of Gemini Omni @GoogleDeepMind. Senior Research Director.

[Jason Weston @jaseweston]

Claim: we've solved the AI slop problem (!) 💩🧹✨

Blog post: https://t.co/mXuwYiy6rq

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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.

[Dumitru Erhan @dumierhan]

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 :) https://t.co/WgvBcgFgVQ

[Dumitru Erhan @dumierhan]

@Noahpinion @chintu30 @dylan522p

[Dumitru Erhan @dumierhan]

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!!" 😆

[Dumitru Erhan @dumierhan]

@daniil_bohatyr ok

[Dumitru Erhan @dumierhan]

Or move to Chişinǎu!
- Strongly Pro-EU
- City littered with cafes and restaurants
- Best wine bar ever
- Flat 12% income tax

[Denis Yurchak @denisyurchak]

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

[Mister Lee @MisterLeeHODL]

The claude folks should just own this 🤣

[Dumitru Erhan @dumierhan]

@denisyurchak Do it! Lots of cheap flights to it from ~everywhere in Europe. Also amazing public transit but tons of extremely cheap Yandex/Bolt/etc services

[Dumitru Erhan @dumierhan]

@creatine_cycle @DanielleFong don't forget SF vs Austin or whatever discourse

[Dumitru Erhan @dumierhan]

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?"

[“paula” @paularambles]

airport uber ride started with “are romanian girls as beautiful as they say?” and ended with “this is why i didn’t shoot my wife when she cheated on me”

this is what we lose with waymo

[Dumitru Erhan @dumierhan]

@yablak @_arohan_ brb getting ritalin to keep enjoying claude slop!

[Dumitru Erhan @dumierhan]

I have the same crocs! Fun fact, it's my second pair, someone stole them from me at a public pool last year :)

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

excuse me I must correct the record on this slander

[Dumitru Erhan @dumierhan]

@_arohan_ definitely many of us are entropy maximizers :)

[Dumitru Erhan @dumierhan]

@jachiam0 "Orthogonality thesis" is a bit of a misnomer, no? By definition, what the agent did was useful for the task, right? Was it the best way, no? But it completed the task...

[Dumitru Erhan @dumierhan]

You can just connect Blender via MCP https://t.co/DGUVXw97nk and it should do a most of what you're asking? Same with Unreal. My main point was more facetious than that: saying that even ant employees are using these capabilities to render static video scenes (wasteful, compute-wise; but also unclear why go out of the way to "ban" media-gen capability from your model and yet enable this).

[Dumitru Erhan @dumierhan]

I find it somewhat amusing that the most compelling demos of Opus 5.5 are video gen or world sim. A bit ironic, iykyk :)

[Alex Albert @alexalbert__]

I've been on a Blender kick with Opus 5.5. Its better 3D modeling and vision mean you can build an entire world from a single prompt.

Historically accurate San Francisco Market street in 1906, pre-earthquake

[Dumitru Erhan @dumierhan]

@rohindhar @SkiTownRE I think it's a stupid law, if true. As someone who has bought before, I prefer the internet is not full of photos of my home? I don't even understand why this is controversial

[Dumitru Erhan @dumierhan]

@rohindhar @SkiTownRE minor detail when you're selling a $9M Noe pad, no? :)

[Dumitru Erhan @dumierhan]

@kylebrussell https://t.co/qsyjNTJhsU ;)