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Max Braun

@maxbraun

@OpenAI. Formerly ▓▓, @Google, https://nitter.cf/t.co/nDr0NaZ7LC, @TheTeamAtX.

 San Francisco
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Joined May 2007
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Over the past twelve months, I’ve been incredibly lucky to work with a group of insanely talented people on something new and different. This is Jony and Sam discussing what we’re up to.
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New data shows that the Waymo Driver continues to make roads safer. Over 14.8M rider-only miles driven through the end of March, it was up to 3.5x better in avoiding crashes that cause injuries and 2x better in avoiding police-reported crashes than human drivers in SF & Phoenix.
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Figure-01 has learned to make coffee ☕️ Our AI learned this after watching humans make coffee This is end-to-end AI: our neural networks are taking video in, trajectories out Join us to train our robot fleet: figure.ai/careers
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Sperm whales have equivalents to human vowels. We uncovered spectral properties in whales’ clicks that are recurrent across whales, independent of traditional types, and compositional. We got clues to look into spectral properties from our AI interpretability technique CDEV.
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Hack of the day: Llama on a microcontroller 🦙🔬 Details and source code at github.com/maxbbraun/llama4m… Thanks to @karpathy, whose llama2.c inspired this!
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@Figure_robot18 Oct 2023
Meet Figure 01
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eBoy@eBoyArts10 Oct 2023
NYC Pixorama mod by @maxbraun & @katrmnv 🍎
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The rise and fall of popular transformer architectures 📈 One pro of having a lot of transformer architectures implemented in transformers & hosted on the @huggingface Hub is that one can see the evolution of popularity of different models 👀
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It's fun to see the evolution with the exact same prompts. This is Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, with apologies to Edward Hopper.
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The same prompts with @StabilityAI's newly released Stable Diffusion 2.0 are looking 🔥
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Best combination climbing gym / co-working space / coffee bar / library in an old church this side of the Seine – at Paris, France
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Nice to see a familiar robot on the front page! 🤖 Congrats to the team for publishing RT-2 and everyone who contributed to the dream of learning robots over the years at @GoogleAI, @GoogleDeepMind, and everydayrobots.com. nytimes.com/2023/07/28/techn… robotics-transformer2.github…
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A paper in @Nature presents a benchmark for assessing how well large language models can answer medical questions. The study, from Google Research (@GoogleAI), also introduces Med-PaLM, an LLM specialized for the medical domain. go.nature.com/3NRU9Lj
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Monocle by @brilliantlabsAR
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We are seeking a visionary leader and an unusually bold thinker ready to build an audacious, resilient, diverse, intergenerational, curious, awe-inspiring organization with us. You can help by spreading the word. longnow.org/careers/
Careers

Careers

The Long Now Foundation fosters long-term thinking. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.

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So happy to share #MedPaLM2 - our team's evolution of Med-PaLM. A new state of art for medical question-answering! Med-PaLM 2 scores 86.5% on MedQA-USMLE, exceeding Med-PaLM's score by >19% 🤯, & 81.8% on PubMedQA... More here: arxiv.org/pdf/2305.09617.pdf
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AudioLM generates high-quality speech (SPEAR-TTS) and music (MusicLM, SingSong), but is quite slow. SoundStorm speeds it up by 100x, generating 30s of audio in 0.5s on TPU, unlocking long-form generation (e.g. dialogues). Work led by @zalanborsos ! 📜🎶: google-research.github.io/se…
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We fed Claude-Instant The Great Gatsby (72K tokens), except we modified one line to say that Mr. Carraway was "a software engineer that works on machine learning tooling at Anthropic." We asked the model to spot what was added - it responded with the right answer in 22 seconds.
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Wittgenstein 2022

Wittgenstein 2022

The Tractatus continued through Artificial Intelligence

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We've started rolling out support for passkeys that let users sign in to our products with a fingerprint, a face scan or a screen lock PIN. Starting today, this will be available as an option for Google Account users. blog.google/technology/safet…
The beginning of the end of the password

The beginning of the end of the password

We’ve begun rolling out support for passkeys across Google Accounts on all major platforms as an additional option that people can use to sign in.

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Two personal updates! 💼 everydayrobots.com → @GoogleAI 🏙️ San Francisco → New York (Illustration via @midjourney)
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