Luis Piloto

AI + Neuro @DeepMind | Ph.D @PrincetonNeuro | ex @ptoncompmemlab. Opinions my own.

[Luis Piloto @EncodeThis]

I made the mistake of doing a Shrek impression for my toddler. Now she won't stop asking to "talk to Shrek." First thing in the morning. Right up to bedtime. And, folks, my Shrek impression is so bad. Painfully bad. Help.

[Luis Piloto @EncodeThis]

@vuecinemas Harrow checking in! Apparently, prices are a state secret here. Just two combo options on repeat with no menu. How's a person supposed to know if they're getting fleeced? 🤔 This is cinema 101, folks.

[Oriol Vinyals @OriolVinyalsML]

Introducing Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental! 🎉

Our newest Gemini model has stellar performance across math and science benchmarks. It’s an incredible model for coding and complex reasoning, and it’s #1 on the @lmarena_ai leaderboard by a drastic 40 ELO margin. Only a handful of model releases have leaped ahead so strongly in ELO. 📈

ELO score differences map directly to win rate: e.g. a 400 ELO difference yields a ~91% win rate. Incredible that since 1.5, just a year ago, we jumped 200 ELO (300 since 1.0).

Here’s a fun example where Gemini 2.5 Pro writes code to create an animated swarm of colorful boids swimming in a rotating hexagon. 💫

Try the model for free today in AI Studio. It’s also available to Gemini Advanced users in @geminiapp. https://t.co/Mgdp9TGlpO

Blog: https://t.co/2E7SXYhY7a

[Luis Piloto @EncodeThis]

@taiyasaki Here's one that wasn't even clever...
https://t.co/Dt5KjtzAIr

[Luis Piloto @EncodeThis]

It's almost surely unintentional that this mistake is in the author's favor. Nonetheless, it further erodes my confidence in the current ML publishing environment.

[Luis Piloto @EncodeThis]

@karpathy we should call it the halting problem...that's not taken yet, is it?

[Diana Liao @Birb_brains]

Our paper, Recursive sequence generation in crows (or Re-crow-sion, my preferred title) is out! Thanks to an awesome team (@KatharinaBrecht, @MillieJohnston_ , A_Nieder), we found that crows join primates in being able to grasp center-embedded sequences. https://t.co/mkhGNTtEw2

[Luis Piloto @EncodeThis]

This is great work in this space, congrats to the authors! I do wish I was a reviewer on this as there are some nuances worth unpacking but overall this is really compelling and important work! Wishlist: 1) try object-based models (OP3?) 2) eval models trained on SAYCam data

[Luca Weihs @LucaWeihs]

(New paper!) Do popular video understanding and embodied models have infant-level physical reasoning abilities?

Not as far as we can tell

Paper: https://t.co/LJoQIPPubf
Site: https://t.co/H53va2bSEP

[Luis Piloto @EncodeThis]

@matt_clawson You're welcome 😉

[Luis Piloto @EncodeThis]

Trying some code out in Julia and let me tell you:
importing (or rather including) into the global namespace is the fastest way to make your code unreadable. Where is this function defined?!?

Is this really how people write packages in Julia or am I missing something?

[Luis Piloto @EncodeThis]

F u, too!

[Luis Piloto @EncodeThis]

Can you help me identify this robot? I haven't been able to figure it out just from this silhouette. I need to give a presentation to my daughter about the robots on my t-shirt. Thanks!

[Luis Piloto @EncodeThis]

@criticalneuro @alec_helbling @manim_community Omfg Ida. Did you really just explain that to me within the span of a tweet more effectively than hours of (I think JuliaLang-stuffed) IRL presentations??!? With graphical depictions to boot. A-mazing!

[Luis Piloto @EncodeThis]

@matt_clawson s/hunter2/*******/g

[Luis Piloto @EncodeThis]

@caranha https://t.co/Xg0Hu6XTcr might be able to adapt that to Mario kart 64?

[Luis Piloto @EncodeThis]

@criticalneuro I was wondering why you were up tweeting so late in NYC but obvs you were ✈️. It looks beautiful! Way to make lemonade out of your deadline/vacation collision.

[Luis Piloto @EncodeThis]

I'm really proud of this work. I'm mega, ultra, jumbo grateful for the support of my collaborators, family, and colleagues to make this project a reality. I hope researchers use our dataset directly and/or engage with more nuanced, specific and psych-inspired benchmarks.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Read more about PLATO in @NatureHumBehav: https://t.co/8CQ0YEwsbm and check out the data set via GitHub: https://t.co/guI0jnheum.

Work by @EncodeThis, Ari Weinstein, @PeterWBattaglia, and Matt Botvinick. 2/2

[Luis Piloto @EncodeThis]

@criticalneuro Thanks, Ida! Pretty cool you'll be my first citation!!!!

[Luis Piloto @EncodeThis]

@criticalneuro @tyrell_turing @TonyZador @MelMitchell1 @caswellcaswell @ev_fedorenko I am a big fan of Rosa Cao's and Dan Yamin's papers on "Explanatory models in neuroscience." Not sure if they count as hidden gems but happy to give them a shoutout either way :)

[Luis Piloto @EncodeThis]

My 3yo has reinvented the filibuster: at bedtime she asks to sing the first song and then makes up a neverending song. It is too adorable to be frustrating and she does eventually run out of steam.