David Pfau

1.7KFollowing496Top Followers36.8KTotal Followers

BIO

Knowledge manifests itself in radiant dreams that shimmer like the wild sun Views are my own http://davidpfau.com on 🦋

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@pfau

@dpfau

Vibe and topics

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Vibe

Informing

Informing23.2%

Humorous19.7%

Provocative17.7%

Teaching13.1%

Supportive10.3%

Hopeful6.5%

Announcing3.5%

Devil's Advocate2.3%

Banter2.1%

Other1.7%

Topics

AI/ML Research

AI/ML Research35.4%

Twitter Discourse24.4%

US Politics13.1%

AI For Science11.9%

AI Benchmarks7%

AI Regulation3.6%

Fusion Energy2.5%

Datacenter Energy2.2%

Top followers

#6

Ian Goodfellow

@goodfellow_ian

Co-founder of stealth startup. Inventor of GANs. Lead author of http://www.deeplearningbook.org Founding chairman of @pubhealthaction

#14

Kyunghyun Cho

@kchonyc

a mediocre combination of a mediocre professor at @nyuniversity and a mediocre CEO at @OrtetAI

#19

Sasha Rush

@srush_nlp

Researcher, Programmer https://www.youtube.com/@srush_nlp

#30

Zachary Lipton

@zacharylipton

Professor: CMU/@acmi_lab, Cofounder: @AbridgeHQ, Creator: @d2l_ai & http://approximatelycorrect.com, Relapsing 🎷

#36

John Schulman

@johnschulman2

@thinkymachines. Interested in reinforcement learning, alignment, birds, jazz music

#38

Jacob Andreas

@jacobandreas

Teaching computers to read. Assoc. prof @MITEECS / @MIT_CSAIL / @NLP_MIT (he/him). http://lingo.csail.mit.edu http://web.mit.edu/jda/www

#39

Jan Leike

@janleike

AI research @AnthropicAI. Previously OpenAI & DeepMind. Optimizing for a post-AGI future where humanity flourishes. Opinions aren't my employer's.

#47

Durk Kingma

@dpkingma

@AnthropicAI. Prev. @Google Brain/DeepMind, founding team @OpenAI. Computer scientist; inventor of the VAE, Adam optimizer, and other methods. ML PhD.

#50

Dan Roy

@roydanroy

@Google DeepMind. On leave, Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Former Research Director, @VectorInst. Professor, @UofT (Statistics/CS). Views are my own.

#51

Tim Rocktäschel

@_rockt

Teaching AI the joy of invention at @Recursive_SI, Professor of AI @AI_UCL, PI @BOLD_Lab_AI, Fellow @ELLISforEurope. Ex @GoogleDeepMind @AIatMeta @CompSciOxford

#53

Ben Recht

@beenwrekt

optimization. machine learning. uc berkeley. I blog at https://argmin.substack.com/ The world won't end.

#54

hardmaru

@hardmaru

Co-Founder and CEO @SakanaAILabs 🎏

#55

Sebastian Ruder

@seb_ruder

Research Scientist @AIatMeta MSL • Ex @Cohere @GoogleDeepMind

#58

Shane Gu

@shaneguML

Sr. Staff RS GenAI @GoogleDeepMind. 🇯🇵-born 🇨🇳🇨🇦. ex: Omni Thinking, Gemini 1.5-3, GPT-4 @OpenAI, GoogBrain Robotics (JP: @shanegJP). Personal opinions.

#59

Dwarkesh Patel

@dwarkesh_sp

Host of @dwarkeshpodcast https://www.youtube.com/DwarkeshPatel https://open.spotify.com/show/4JH4tybY1zX6e5hjCwU6gF https://apple.co/3ujLQkZ

#61

Thomas G. Dietterich

@tdietterich

University Distinguished Professor (Emeritus), Oregon State Univ.; Former President, AAAI; ArXiv Chair CS Section, Chair Editorial Advisory Council

#71

Edward Grefenstette

@egrefen

FR/US/GB AI/ML Person, Director of Research at @GoogleDeepMind, Honorary Professor at @BOLD_Lab_AI, @ELLISforEurope Fellow. All posts are personal.

#73

Been Kim

@_beenkim

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, PhD from MIT. Make machines empower people.

#74

Shakir Mohamed

@shakir_za

ML with Social Purpose. @shakir@mas.to | Research Scientist @DeepMind | Strengthening African ML @DeepIndaba. He/Him. South African 🇿🇦🏳️‍🌈🌍

#75

Zoubin Ghahramani

@ZoubinGhahrama1

VP Research, Google DeepMind, ex-head of Google Brain. Professor at University of Cambridge. Machine Learning Researcher. ex-Chief Scientist & VP of AI, Uber.

#76

Dustin Tran

@dustinvtran

@elorianai. ex-google ex-xai

#77

Luke Zettlemoyer

@LukeZettlemoyer

#80

Susan Zhang

@suchenzang

Always hungry for intelligence.

#81

Zico Kolter

@zicokolter

Professor and Head of Machine Learning Department at @CarnegieMellon. Board member @OpenAI and @Qualcomm. Chief Scientist @GraySwanAI.

#82

Max Welling

@wellingmax

#83

François Chollet

@fchollet

Co-founder @ndea. Co-founder @arcprize. Creator of Keras and ARC-AGI. Author of 'Deep Learning with Python'.

#86

Wojciech Zaremba

@woj_zaremba

AI resilience at OpenAI Foundation Co-Founder of OpenAI https://woj.world

#87

Ben Poole

@poolio

ex-google brain and deepmind. phd in neural nonsense from stanford.

#88

Sander Dieleman

@sedielem

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind (WaveNet, Nano Banana, Gemini Omni). I tweet about ML, music, generative models (personal account).

#89

Roger Grosse

@RogerGrosse

#91

Natasha Jaques

@natashajaques

Assistant Professor leading the Social RL Lab https://socialrl.cs.washington.edu/ @uwcse and Staff Research Scientist at @GoogleAI.

#92

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@yoavgo

#93

Alec Radford

@AlecRad

#95

Yee Whye Teh

@yeewhye

Find me @yeewhye@sigmoid.social Professor at @OxCSML, @oxfordstats and Research Director at @GoogleDeepMind. All opinions are my own.

#97

Barret Zoph

@barret_zoph

VP Research GoogleDeepmind Past: - VP & GM Enterprise (@openai) - CTO & Co-Founder TML (@thinkymachines) - VP Research (Post-Training) @openai

#99

Liam Fedus

@LiamFedus

Building industrial-scale science at @periodiclabs Past: VP of Post-Training @OpenAI; Google Brain

#100

rohan anil

@_arohan_

co-founder, board @coreauto - and continuing to aspire to understand deep learning.

#101

Sholto Douglas

@_sholtodouglas

Scaling RL @AnthropicAI, ex @DeepMind - working towards intelligence too cheap to meter

#105

Christian Szegedy

@ChrSzegedy

#deeplearning, #ai research scientist. Opinions are mine.

#107

Ryan Adams

@ryan_p_adams

Machine Learning Researcher, CS Professor (@PrincetonCS), Dad, Woodworker

#109

Elad Gil

@eladgil

Entrepreneur & Investor

#113

Yisong Yue

@yisongyue

AI Professor @Caltech (@YueLabCaltech)

#115

Charles Sutton

@RandomlyWalking

Research scientist @GoogleAI / Previously academic @InfAtEd / Deep learning to help people write code. / @chas@sigmoid.social / ❤️s:🐱🐶☕️🍕

#120

Behnam Neyshabur

@bneyshabur

Co-Founder & CEO @mirendil 💼 Past: co-led Discovery team @AnthropicAI & Blueshift team @GoogleDeepMind 🎒Traveling & Backpacking

#123

Kevin Patrick Murphy

@sirbayes

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Interested in Bayesian Machine Learning.

#126

Jakob Foerster

@j_foerst

Associate Prof in ML @UniofOxford. Something Something Research Scientist @MetaAI. Something @BOLD_LAB_AI. Always #teamhuman. Opinions belong to the world.

#130

Yarin

@yaringal

Professor of Machine Learning, University of Oxford @OATML_Oxford Group Leader Expert Advisor to AISI "One of the top machine-learning people" - Tim Berners-Lee

#136

Thomas Kipf

@tkipf

Research at @GoogleDeepMind. Gemini Omni Team. Priors: GNNs, Structured World Models, Neural Assets, Veo Ingredients/References, Veo Robotics

#138

Ferenc Huszár

@fhuszar

Founder & Supreme Leader of Technical Staff at Reasonable. Professor on leave from @Cambridge_CL. Alum of @Twitter, Magic Pony, @Balderton

#143

Brandon Amos

@brandondamos

🧙 RL @Reflection_AI past: @MetaAi @GoogleDeepmind @SCSatCMU @Cornell_Tech