San Kala

NeurIPS 25 Embodied Agents Interface Winner. AI Researcher @ eBay / CS @ UCSD / ASICs Eng. in a past life / EE roots

[San Kala @sanpskala]

I disagree with some of the discourse around the robotics future. I think it's coming faster than people imagine and it will be frontier models controlling these robots over the cloud. So I wrote an essay:

https://t.co/So6RO6K173

[Maxime Rivest 🧙‍♂️🦙🐧 @MaximeRivest]

Fable turned my remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter.

My prompts fade, a LLM respond.

Magical!

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Exactly. I've been disseminating a similar message for years.

The concentration of power in AI and the desire for control is by far the biggest danger of AI. It could lead to a few private companies and/or countries being in control of access to information, access to knowledge, and access to the tools of economic expansion.
It's a kind of medieval obscurantism akin to the Ottoman empire banning the use of the printing press for 200 years, in part to keep control of the dogma, but also to protect the corporation of the calligraphers and scribes.

Relevant historical bits about the Internet:
1. It took a deliberate decision by Al Gore and Bill Clinton to open up access of what was then ARPAnet to commercial entities and to the public, against the desires of the entrenched telecom industry. During a public roundtable about the "information superhighway" in 1993, the CEO of AT&T told Gore and Clinton "leave it to us". Gore said no.
2. In the late 1980s, setting up an Internet presence required buying proprietary hardware with proprietary OS and software stack from Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, or Dell. By the 2000s, all of this was wiped out by commodity hardware, Linux, Apache, and an entirely free/open software stack. This migration to open platforms was the result of market forces.

Infrastructure wants to be open.
Foundation models are becoming an infrastructure and will inevitably become commoditized.
Long term, the money is in the application layer, which is what I, Arthur Mensch, Alex Karp, and others have been saying.

[San Kala @sanpskala]

@skeptrune is that @dylan522p ?

[MTS @MTSlive]

today tomorrow

[San Kala @sanpskala]

@AntonioSitongLi In the end the team that can train their model well on whole of YT wins. Learn everything about everything including robotics

[Meme.blend @meme_blend]

White House using Baked light maps to save on compute?

[San Kala @sanpskala]

@ohhsotheysay Which makes me wonder if openai or Google had a role to play in the ant ban

[Ryan Amerio @ryemike_merio]

@LuminaXspace It will take mythos 6 to cure this disappointment. If Sonnet 5 isn't 15% better than 4.8, you'd better hope gpt 5.6 is a flop. This was a bad deal.

[Gruz @damnGruz]

life after fable 5

[San Kala @sanpskala]

I mean ALL

[San Kala @sanpskala]

Roboticists! Are you sufficiently bitter lesson pilled?! Where is the robotics model trained on all video data.

[San Kala @sanpskala]

@brian_armstrong A free market of countries is required to maintain freedom. If people have only one choice (usa) it's over.

[Midjourney @midjourney]

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

[alex fazio @alxfazio]

hi there! we couldn’t help but overhear you discussing biology from across the room. we really appreciate your enthusiasm, but we’re going to need that conversation to come to an end now

[Pleometric @pleometric]

Reminder: You Have Until June 22nd

[qt cache🪷 @frontier_foid]

"Claude fable has been so useful for my ml research!"

[Luke Cannon @lukecannon727]

The cashier at Home Depot just asked me if I wanted to round up to support the SpaceX IPO

[San Kala @sanpskala]

@mal_shaik Once you win you can invent stories about how you won

[Ricky G @howdoibuildthis]

IMO the lauding of the average joe via this media tour is to promote the idea that anyone (or everyone) can win on these platforms which couldn't be farther from the truth. I can't prove it's paid for but the widespread and repetitive nature of this narrative is staggering and would be shocking if it is being distributed innocently.