Cool paper using cultural learning to better align culture values in LLMs. Cultural learning ftw! 💪👨‍🏫

Researchers Stephen Jordan and Noah Shutty from Google Quantum AI have devised a new quantum approach to solving problems by treating them like error-free messages. So far, the algorithm has bested all known classical techniques. www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-spee...

Best practices... no wait... Good enough practices... err... how about Questionable practices in machine learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12220

A brilliant colleague and wonderful soul Felix Hill recently passed away. This was a shock and in an effort to sort some things out, I wrote them down. Maybe this will help someone else, but at the very least it helped me. Rest in peace, Felix, you will be missed. www.janexwang.com/blog/2025/1/...

Excited to be able to share what I've been up to recently! We released a new experimental model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, which shows the thoughts/reasoning it uses to come up with its answers. Try it out here! aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_...

Try out our fresh-from-the-oven thinking model: aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_... Very cool what these new classes of models are capable of!

Acheulean technology and emergent sociality: what material engagement means for the evolution of human-environment systems link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It’s been a crazy 2 years seeing so many amazingly talented researchers bring GENerative Interactive Environments alive in Genie 1 and 2. the future is agents in generative environments

Introducing 🧞Genie 2 🧞 - our most capable large-scale foundation world model, which can generate a diverse array of consistent worlds, playable for up to a minute. We believe Genie 2 could unlock the next wave of capabilities for embodied agents 🧠.

thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion" (more examples below)

Are there limits to what you can learn in a closed system? Do we need human feedback in training? Is scale all we need? Should we play language games? What even is "recursive self-improvement"? Thoughts about this and more here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.16905

we are recruiting interns for a few projects with @pyoudeyer in bordeaux > studying llm-mediated cultural evolution with @nisioti_eleni @Jeremy__Perez > balancing exploration and exploitation with autotelic rl with @ClementRomac details and links in 🧵 please share!

Applications are open for student researcher positions at Google DeepMind for 2025! Due date Dec 13 www.google.com/about/career...

During most of the vast history of humanity, technologies have evolved gradually, not through leaps of genius, but slow cultural adaption. Before the scientific method, easy communication & printed books, innovation happened at the level of societies, not people. www2.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/pdf...

Reader, I do not know the demons that haunt your dreams, the frustrations and insults of life that have brought you to your knees, the sadness you battle in your heart. But know this: there is pure goodness in this world. It exists. Sometime we see a glimpse of it. Today, I got such a peek.

Just a heads up to everyone: @deep-mind.bsky.social is unfortunately a fake account and has been reported. Please do not follow it nor repost anything from it.

Great list of researchers working on making NLP models more culturally aware 🌏!!

For no particular reason, I really like these starter packs: Google DeepMind: go.bsky.app/GZ4hZzu Theoretical CS: go.bsky.app/6A6GRSi ML Theory: go.bsky.app/21nFz12 Differential Privacy: go.bsky.app/A7ABG83

now, if we think of p(output | prompt, a few examples) as a predictive distribution p(y|x, D) ... it looks very much like learning to me :) see e.g. my slide deck on drive.google.com/file/d/1B-Ka...

Beyond excited to introduce AlphaQubit, now published in Nature! AlphaQubit is a neural network for quantum error correction and achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on simulated and real-world data.

I'm super excited to share that our work on AlphaQubit, a high accuracy neural network quantum error correction decoder, is now published in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Really excited to share our (Google DeepMind and Google QuantumAI) new publication in @Nature, where we use neural networks to identify errors in quantum computers with state-of-the-art accuracy. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Blog: blog.google/technology/g...

Now that @jeffclune.bsky.social and @joelbot3000.bsky.social are here, time for an Open-Endedness starter pack. go.bsky.app/MdVxrtD

Google DeepMind is hiring Student Researchers in EMEA 👇

Student Researcher positions in EMEA now accepting applications! Please repost. www.google.com/about/career...

Our team is looking for an ML hacker extraordinaire. make the TPUs hum with the sound of AGI. Job description: make intelligence = f(compute) unbounded : boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...