Edward Grefenstette
@egrefen
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FR/US/GB AI/ML Person, Director of Research at @GoogleDeepMind, Honorary Professor at @UCL_DARK, @ELLISforEurope Fellow. All posts are personal.
London, United Kingdom
Joined April 2007
🧵 As 2024 wraps up, please pardon my usual self-indulgence in tweeting about the year gone by. 🧵 . This will be a reasonably short one. OR WILL IT? [1/17].
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RT @GovTimWalz: The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.
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From reviewing many recent grad CVs: is everyone today 1000% more cracked than I was during my DPhil, or was I just operating in a slower moving field? . I think I'll choose to believe the interpretation that doesn't make it sound like I'm lazy or mediocre 😅.
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This is now closed and I'm now reviewing all the application (yes!). Since there are ~400, I'm sorry I cannot respond to everyone who reached out offering to meet to discuss the role — it would be 200h of calls if I gave every candidate 30 mins for a chat 😅.
Do you have a PhD (or equivalent) or will have one in the coming months (i.e. 2-3 months away from graduating)? Do you want to help build open-ended agents that help humans do humans things better, rather than replace them? We're hiring 1-2 Research Scientists! Check the 🧵👇.
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RT @MinqiJiang: Weco is one of the most under-the-radar teams building frontier agents. Very excited to see they now have the resources to….
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Incredible to see @UCL_DARK alumnus @zhengyaojiang and colleagues ship, time and again, agentic technology used by multiple frontier labs. These folks are going somewhere fast 🚀✨.
Thrilled to announce Weco has raised an $8M seed led by @GoldenVentures to build self-evolving software!. Our technology has already been used by frontier labs like OpenAI, Meta, Google and Sakana AI. We’re making every codebase a living experiment that learns to beat itself:
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🚨 Research Scientist Hiring alert! 🚨.Applications close THIS FRIDAY for @GoogleDeepMind research scientist roles to work on autonomous assistants and human-facing agentic capabilities, self-improvement, and open-endedness.
Do you have a PhD (or equivalent) or will have one in the coming months (i.e. 2-3 months away from graduating)? Do you want to help build open-ended agents that help humans do humans things better, rather than replace them? We're hiring 1-2 Research Scientists! Check the 🧵👇.
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Completely agree with this, but if we're going for a federal Europe we can't let the Germans run the show after the Merkel clusterfuck. Let Macron steer the ship? He'll need a post presidency job.
The failure of Europe isn't the current expensive divorce deal with the US. The failure is not being able to create multiple massive companies in over a quarter of a century. We missed most of the tech wave. Why?.Because with the Internet as distribution channel every advantage.
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Crazy how so many researchers around the world have been optimizing neural nets by hand using the same one guy called Adam.
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Okay can I somehow just block all these fucking posts that have dumbass videos with the word "physics." superimposed? This site has just gone to slop hell.
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DISAPPOINTED TO SEE NO GOWN-CLAD FIGURES WAVING WANDS AND CASTING SPELLS.
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RT @heiga_zen: We're hiring @GoogleDeepMind APAC! 🇯🇵🇮🇳. Seeking experts in multilingual, multicultural & multimodal AI to help shape the f….
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We put humans first 🫶.
Btw as an aside, we didn’t announce on Friday because we respected the IMO Board's original request that all AI labs share their results only after the official results had been verified by independent experts & the students had rightly received the acclamation they deserved.
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RT @koraykv: Advanced version of Gemini Deep Think (announced at #GoogleIO) using parallel inference time computation achieved gold-medal p….
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Our advanced model officially achieved a gold-medal level performance on problems from the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), the world’s most prestigious competition for young...
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Please see job advert for full details, or ping me any questions via DM. The team and I are looking forward to meeting many of you and hearing about your plans for the future!.
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We have world class engineering support to help scale and move fast, but we prioritize research scientists who can be self-sufficient, strong engineers in their own right, and are ready to occasionally work solo to show proof of life for their most ambitious research directions.
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The ideal candidate would relocate to London and either complement or reinforce team skills. You should seek to formulate your own agenda in line with high level team and organizational priorities, while effectively weaving it into broader projects in and out of the team.
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