Tugce Gurbuz 🧠

AI research | Ph.D. student @QLSMcGill & @Mila_Quebec | Psychologist (@BilkentUniv alumni) | Bass guitarist | Supported by @FRQ_NT & @ai_unique

[World Modeling Workshop @worldmodel_conf]

🚨Announcing the World Modeling Workshop 2026 🚨

📅 When: Feb 4–6, 2026
📍Where: Mila (Montréal) + Online (free)
💡 What: Keynotes, Methods Deep Dive, and Tutorials
🌐 https://t.co/WukFtNON3o
✉️ [email protected]

🧵 Details below:

[Tugce Gurbuz 🧠 @tugcdroid]

@patrickmineault @Mila_Quebec @g_lajoie_ @tyrell_turing Congrats Patrick, it’ll be amazing to have you here!

[Geoffrey Hinton @geoffreyhinton]

Reinforcement Learning by Human Feedback is just parenting for a supernaturally precocious child.

[Ramin @ramin_m_h]

In a new article published today in Nature MI @NatMachIntell we solved a differential equation that describes the interaction of neurons and synapses! This equation had no known closed-form solution since the year 1907!

This solution is important! 1/n

https://t.co/53qU76Ewrq

[Richard Sutton @RichardSSutton]

If you want others to care about what you think, then start by caring yourself. Get a notebook, write your thoughts down, challenge them, and develop them into something worth sharing.

[Tugce Gurbuz 🧠 @tugcdroid]

The final day of @CoLLAs_Conf is ending with a very exciting talk from @RichardSSutton #collas2022

[Sarath Chandar @apsarathchandar]

Panel discussion on the effects of scaling in lifelong learning @CoLLAs_Conf !

[Tugce Gurbuz 🧠 @tugcdroid]

The first day of @CoLLAs_Conf in-person event was amazing with many inspirational keynotes. Huge thanks to #collas2022 organizers!

[AI at Meta @AIatMeta]

Excited to announce Make-A-Scene, our latest research tool Mark Zuckerberg just shared. Make-A-Scene is an exploratory concept that gives creative control to anyone, artists & non-artists alike to use both text & sketches to guide AI image generation: https://t.co/p9HNFy3VeY

[Tugce Gurbuz 🧠 @tugcdroid]

@g_nehaa Thanks Neha!

[Tugce Gurbuz 🧠 @tugcdroid]

@AbhayPuri98 Thanks! :)

[Tugce Gurbuz 🧠 @tugcdroid]

@EtterGuillaume Thanks Guillaume!

[Tugce Gurbuz 🧠 @tugcdroid]

@LucasPhilipp1 @cbvg_bilkent Thanks Lucas!

[Amii @AmiiThinks]

In this intimate Fireside Chat, Amii's Adam White & @camlinke discuss everything from what to expect from a PhD experience and how to make career path decisions to mental health and handling imposter syndrome. Watch it now: https://t.co/hSq5sB0JjD #AI #ML #AIResearch

[Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei]

“AGI is when AGI developes the next generation of AGI.” 😜

[Tugce Gurbuz 🧠 @tugcdroid]

Wow, what a week with so many talented and inspiring people around the world! Coming back to Montreal with lots of inspiration, knowledge, and new friendships. Huge thanks to @AmiiThinks team for organizing such a wonderful event and providing a talent bursary for my attendance!

[Richard Sutton @RichardSSutton]

In the end, Amii's AI week was awesome. #aiweek2022 So much science. So much industry. So much education. So much fun.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Gato🐈a scalable generalist agent that uses a single transformer with exactly the same weights to play Atari, follow text instructions, caption images, chat with people, control a real robot arm, and more: https://t.co/9Q7WsRBmIC

Paper: https://t.co/ecHZqzCSAm 1/

[Event Horizon 'Scope @ehtelescope]

We finally have the first look at our Milky Way black hole, Sagittarius A*. It’s the dawn of a new era of black hole physics. Credit: EHT Collaboration. #OurBlackHole #SgrABlackHole
Link: https://t.co/Ax7ECRVg8A