Florian Golemo

(he/him) Postdoc at MILA / ElementAI in Deep Learning for robotics & 3D. I'm into electronics, synth music, and climbing.

[Florian Golemo @shoddy_robots]

Since @BostonDynamics didn't answer our emails, we had to build our own Spot Mini #robot (just a bit more... shoddy 😁).
Thanks to @MassCaccia, @chrisjpal, and @element_ai for helping out, @stanfordrobotx for the quad design and @poppy_project for the arm design.

[Anthony Gosselin @antho_gosselin]

🚗💥Introducing Ctrl-Crash: controllable video generation for autonomous driving! SOTA models struggle to generate physically realistic car crashes. We propose an image2video diffusion model with bounding box and crash type control.
Website: https://t.co/vNBYhbx3c4
🧵->

[AK @_akhaliq]

Ctrl-Crash

Controllable Diffusion for Realistic Car Crashes

[John Oliver @iamjohnoliver]

1/2 Here's our story from last night about Elon Musk...https://t.co/bxMcJJyovr

[Abeba Birhane @Abebab]

me & my collaborators have done the most extensive research of the LAION datasets (3 academic papers & the first to investigate dataset in 2021 showing misogyny, pornography, & malignant stereotypes)

yet, the Stanford study has not cited us once. this is academic misconduct

[Florian Golemo @shoddy_robots]

@DavidSKrueger Are there?
What high-profile people in the AI research community think that?

[Glen Berseth @GlenBerseth]

The skill of being able to imitate others from just minimal visual observation is challenging to learn but an extremely beneficial skill most intelligent animals possess. We develop an agent that can learn to imitate an expert from only a single video demonstration—a 🧵.

[Florian Golemo @shoddy_robots]

Omfg @EriolDoesDesign thank you sooooo much! You're the best! 🤩

[AK @_akhaliq]

6. Apple Orange

[Florian Golemo @shoddy_robots]

@tyrell_turing Eyyyyyy huge congrats!!! Well deserved! 🎉 🎉

[Florian Golemo @shoddy_robots]

@tyrell_turing 100%! IMHO this is the most salient and pressing point - there's AI used all over the place right now from recommendation algorithms that lead to increased polarization to credit assessment with untraceable judgement. This needs regulation more urgently than some hypothetical.

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

The problem isn't regulating "AI" or future "AGI". It's protecting individuals from corporate and government overreach using "AI" to cut costs and or deflect accountability.

[Florian Golemo @shoddy_robots]

And then some people go around saying we should accelerate this. 😬
I'm all for better AI assistants but let's take it easy and test them properly before mass deployment.

[Jon Uleis @MovingToTheSun]

My new favorite thing - Bing's new ChatGPT bot argues with a user, gaslights them about the current year being 2022, says their phone might have a virus, and says "You have not been a good user"

Why? Because the person asked where Avatar 2 is showing nearby

[Krishna Murthy @_krishna_murthy]

Announcing our newest preprint

Features from CLIP, DINO are ready for zero-shot 3D perception.

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗙𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 builds open-set multimodal 3D maps by fusing features to 3D. These maps can be queried by text, image, click, and audio📜👇

https://t.co/rGTJjrtziz

[Mila - Institut québécois d'IA @Mila_Quebec]

The #2023DLRL Summer School will be held in #Montréal, presented by CIFAR and Mila, in collaboration with Amii and the Vector Institute.

Submit your application for the #DLRLSchool before February 22! 👉 https://t.co/PRjpNapx2y

[Florian Golemo @shoddy_robots]

@LegalizeBrain @kareem_carr It's clearly a diagram, not a neuron.

[Glen Berseth @GlenBerseth]

RL training has high variance over final policy performance. Our new work @corl_conf #Agilerobotics workshop augments RL by learning to estimate where the agent is underperforming and forcing the agent to learn along this boundary.

W/ @velythyl, @shoddy_robots, @duckietown_coo

[Florian Golemo @shoddy_robots]

@irinarish Could you explain that, please? Because that's the contentious and important part. Is it okay to discount other people's well-being in the near-term for humanity's long-term well-being?

[Florian Golemo @shoddy_robots]

@irinarish Does your version of longtermism entail discounting any current or near-term well-being in favor of long-term?

[Florian Golemo @shoddy_robots]

@irinarish What do you think "longtermism" means? In your own words?