Joss Moore

Catch me on Threads: Same Bat name; same Bat handle

[Joss Moore @one_animals]

Catch me on Threads: Same Bat name; same Bat handle https://t.co/C5aCFGQ1Uy

[Joss Moore @one_animals]

Or, if you happen to be heading this way today or tomorrow you could buy me a copy at the airport. I can travel and will pay five times the price you paid.

[Joss Moore @one_animals]

Looking for an emergency copy of The Vegetarian by Han Kang in either English or German, in the vicinity of Morro Jable. Prepared to pay a good price for it!

[Oriol Vinyals @OriolVinyalsML]

Our experimental version of Gemini 1.5 Pro in AI Studio debuted at #1 on the LMSys leaderboard. 1300 ELO, nice round number 🔥

With the Gemini team, we are focused on both improving our models by iterating and finessing our recipe (deep learning FTW!), and also on massive bets that could yield big quality jumps. If you have what it takes, join us!

https://t.co/7clnfIGY8r

[Timothy Gowers @wtgowers @wtgowers]

Google DeepMind have produced a program that in a certain sense has achieved a silver-medal peformance at this year's International Mathematical Olympiad. 🧵

https://t.co/DIcsYXUv97

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

We’re presenting the first AI to solve International Mathematical Olympiad problems at a silver medalist level.🥈

It combines AlphaProof, a new breakthrough model for formal reasoning, and AlphaGeometry 2, an improved version of our previous system. 🧵 https://t.co/SYaLPSbIyj

[Joss Moore @one_animals]

@arcadefire Thursday, the night you play Brixton, will be the night we finally rid ourselves of this wretched Conservative government. A Funeral, if you will. Please, please, please in the encore can you do a cover of D-Ream’s ‘90s anthem Things Can Only Get Better? 🌹

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

My opinion of @elonmusk
I like his cars (I own a 2015 S, and 2023 S), his rockets, his solar energy systems, and his satellite communication system.
I also like his positions on open source and patents.

But I very much disagree with him on a number of issues.

I disagree with how he treats his scientists.
Technology/product development may not need openness and publications to advance, but forward-looking *research* sure does, whether it's in AI, neural interfaces, material science, or whatever.
Secrecy hampers progress and discourages talents from joining the effort.

I also disagree with the hype. I mean, expressing an ambitious vision for the future is great.
But telling the public blatantly false prediction ("AGI next year", "1 million robotaxis by 2020", "AGI will kill us all, let'spause",...) is very counterproductive (also illegal in some cases).

More importantly, I think his public positions on many political issues, journalism, the media and the press, and academia, are not just wrong but dangerous for democracy, civilization, and human wellfare.
Say what you want about "traditional media" but you can't really have reliable information without professional journalists working for a free and diverse press. Democracy can't exist without it, which is why only authoritarian ennemies of democracy rail against the media.

Finally he doesn't seem to hesitate to disseminate batshit-crazy conspiracy theories as long as they serve his interests (e.g. boosting "PizzaGate", "illegal immigrants corrupt elections in the US", "person X is a pedo",...).
One would expect a technological visionary to be a rationalist. Rationalism doesn't work without Truth.

This has become particularly concerning since he bought himself a platform to disseminate his dangerous political opinions, conspiracy theories, and hype.
He has been quite naïve about the difficulties of running a social network and the (legal) necessity of doing content moderation. One can claim to be a 1st Amendment absolutist, but a lot of content *must* be taken down by law, e.g. terrorist propaganda, child exploitation, blatant hate speech (in the EU and other regions).
Then, there is dangerous disinformation that puts public health in danger or corrupts the democratic process. You have to moderate that too.
Content moderation is a complicated problem whose best answer is not an attitude of total laissez-faire but a complex trade-off.

[Michael Chang @mmmbchang]

Gemini and I also got a chance to watch the @OpenAI live announcement of gpt4o, using Project Astra! Congrats to the OpenAI team, super impressive work!

[Joss Moore @one_animals]

@chrysha22 I would very much like to know this too. It is kind of outrageous.

[Jacky Liang @jackyliang42]

We can teach LLMs to write better robot code through natural language feedback. But can LLMs remember what they were taught and improve their teachability over time?

Introducing our latest work, Learning to Learn Faster from Human Feedback with Language Model Predictive Control

[Joss Moore @one_animals]

He should have just changed his name to Elon Musx.

[Grace Petrie @gracepetrie]

Whichever of you twats bet Penny Mordaunt a tenner for every time she could get “stand up and fight” into the final minute of her speech, you owe her £110

[Irvine Welsh @IrvineWelsh]

Trainspotting parodies usually bore the shit out of me, but I quite like this one.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Introducing 𝗥𝗧-𝗫: a generalist AI model to help advance how robots can learn new skills. 🤖

To train it, we partnered with 33 academic labs across the world to build a new dataset with experiences gained from 22 different robot types.

Find out more: https://t.co/k6tE62gQGP

[Joss Moore @one_animals]

So sick of their stupid faces, even before they start talking #GeneralElectionN0W

[Joss Moore @one_animals]

@campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK @RestIsPolitics @theresa_may Lock up your cheeses.

[Jason Kingsley, new novel - Lord of Blackthorne @RebellionJason]

More bad news in the games industry, Epic laying off about 900 people and Creative Assembly closing a big project and loosing people too.

If you could spread the word, we have over 50 vacancies at present on our website!

[Joss Moore @one_animals]

Once all of our police people have gone to Australia we can get Serco Security to take over, so it’s fine…

[Joss Moore @one_animals]

This rotten government is done, isn’t it? General election by Christmas I reckon.