Nando de Freitas

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I seek to understand intelligence & agency and build AI aligned with compassion, freedom & universal human empowerment through progress in science & engineering

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1	Oct 19, '24	I’ve walked through poor neighbourhoods in India, Africa and LatAm many times. Yet, I recently walked through one of the most depressing ones in terms of poverty, drug abuse, and s	43.5×	683k	1.8k	121	363
2	Aug 17, '24	Hmmm, from what I see my colleagues in AI at Google London work bloody long ours and are extremely committed. This guy once came to London and told us to abandon Torch and use Tens	26.4×	416k	2.4k	95	402
3	Mar 25, '24	There appears to be a mismatch between publishing criteria in AI conferences and "what actually works". It is easy to publish new mathematical constructs (e.g. new models, new laye	19.9×	313k	1k	188	710
4	Nov 12, '25	I still remember that 2013 @NeurIPSConf party with Mark Zuckerberg. He had a bottle of water at that first Neurips corporate party. I thought it was out of character for a Neurips	17.5×	275k	1.2k	86	379
5	Feb 4, '23	Nvidia released the megatron language model before the pandemic. It’s amazing how influential this paper became. A must read for people wanting to learn about AI.	16.1×	254k	872	128	592
6	Sep 1, '24	Some companies can turn the most motivated scientists and engineers into unproductive, complacent hamsters. They do this by introducing a large number of levels and process-heavy p	15.6×	245k	607	67	235
7	Oct 30, '25	We are hiring star research and data engineers to invent the future of AI. JoinAITeam@microsoft.com If you’re finishing your undergrad or PhD at Imperial, Cambridge, Oxford, UCL, T	14.2×	223k	671	67	717
8	Sep 27, '25	The only bitter lesson is that LLMs have succeeded beyond any expert expectations. Underpinning LLMs is the idea of scaling, which is too often misunderstood as more parameters. Sc	12.5×	196k	676	71	429
9	Dec 15, '24	Let us please talk more about mental health in the AI community. I was shocked and reminded of this by the sad and tragic death of this young colleague with so much talent. Many of	12.1×	190k	649	76	147
10	Apr 9, '24	This is by far the best non-technical Natural and Artificial Intelligence book anyone could read. This comprehensive, well-researched, crisply clear, sharply focused and illuminati	12×	188k	833	126	1k
11	Sep 14, '25	If you have 10K data instances, would you: 1. SFT an LLM with 10K data, or 2. Learn a reward with 5K, and RL the LLM on the remaining 5K with the learned reward 3. Other (explain)?	11.3×	177k	446	20	391
12	Oct 12, '25	Machines that can predict what their sensors (touch, cameras, keyboard, temperature, microphones, gyros, …) will perceive are already aware and have subjective experience. It’s all	11.1×	175k	373	58	256
13	Sep 7, '24	The Llama 3 paper is a must-read for anyone in AI and CS. It’s an absolutely accurate and authoritative take on what it takes to build a leading LLM, the tech behind ChatGPT, Gemin	10.2×	160k	1.8k	275	1.5k
14	Feb 9, '25	I think you’re missing a lot of history. @ylecun also championed online learning (SGD) - yes it sounds crazy but there was a time when this wasn’t the majority view. Yann also spea	10.1×	159k	502	17	94
15	Feb 18, '24	I agree with @DrJimFan. Life, with all its midblowing structure, is about creating order in a universe of increasing disorder, see e.g. for an easy intro. Like a cell, a neural net	9.9×	155k	329	64	224
16	Dec 18, '23	I’m with @ylecun and @AndrewYNg on this. I feel it is more responsible to devote greater effort to solving today’s problems (e.g. climate, health, energy, poverty, safety, communic	9.4×	148k	477	54	48
17	Mar 29, '24	Predicting the next word "only" is sufficient for language models to learn a large body of knowledge that enables then to code, answer questions, understand many topics, chat, and	8.6×	134k	640	125	580
18	Sep 13, '24	It’s time to say thank you and goodbye to @GoogleDeepMind. I had the immense fortune of working there for 10 years. They were undoubtedly the most exciting years in the history of	8.2×	130k	1.4k	31	147
19	Apr 20, '25	RL is not all you need, nor attention nor Bayesianism nor free energy minimisation, nor an age of first person experience. Such statements are propaganda. You need thousands of peo	7.3×	115k	1.4k	189	471
20	Apr 4, '24	Thanks @osanseviero and @huggingface for inviting me to a wonderful AI dinner, where I had the pleasure of catching up with old friends, @sarahookr @neilzegh @laurentsifre @ylecun,	6.9×	109k	314	15	27
21	Sep 16, '24	I’ve joined @Microsoft AI to advance the frontier of large scale multimodal AI research and to build products for people to achieve meaningful goals and dreams. The MAI team is sma	6.9×	109k	954	46	207
22	May 8, '25	Why don’t you compete with ChatGPT? Last time I checked Gemini app was an order of magnitude behind. More seriously, this arrogance and comparative disparaging is toxic and not nee	6.5×	103k	331	8	54
23	Sep 9, '19	I believe I have written more papers than Alan Turing + John Nash! Numbers of papers alone is a wrong misleading metric. Please focus instead on writing good papers that advance th	6.3×	0	1.8k	358	43
24	Oct 8, '24	For the first time in my life I can explain what the physics @NobelPrize is about! In fact, if you’d like to learn what is a Hopfield net and how it relates to NP hard satisfiabili	6.2×	97k	574	69	495
25	Sep 21, '25	Most RL for LLMs involves only 1 step of RL. It’s a contextual bandit problem and there’s no covariate shift because the state (question, instruction) is given. This has many impli	6.1×	97k	697	59	709
26	Oct 7, '25	I would like to hire exceptional engineers (code, math, science, games, video) . Essential: people who want to transform the world in positive ways by advancing AI. Email me at: Jo	5.9×	93k	759	49	801
27	Dec 19, '20	Can AI researchers please tweet: I am against racism, sexism, bullying and cancelling, and I believe in improving diversity, equity and inclusion in our AI community. We need to he	5.8×	0	1.3k	326	26
28	Nov 22, '24	The OpenAI letters: Some of what is said here is absolutely shocking. The politics, hysteria, incompetence, power hunger, gaslighting, etc are beyond any HBO show. I was a leading	5.6×	88k	719	90	494
29	Mar 26, '25	Dear @GoogDeepMind ers, First, congrats on the new impressive models. Every week one of you reaches out to me in despair to ask me how to escape your notice periods and noncompetes	5.5×	87k	456	40	201
30	May 14, '22	Someone’s opinion article. My opinion: It’s all about scale now! The Game is Over! It’s about making these models bigger, safer, compute efficient, faster at sampling, smarter memo	5.2×	0	830	207	261
31	Jul 1, '24	It amazes me that so many (even tech) people still don't get the transformative power of generative AI. The best text to image and video models in existence today all use synthetic	5.1×	79k	318	53	261
32	Sep 20, '24	The @OpenAI o1 models represent one of the smartest advances in AI in a long time. Having just joined @Microsoft AI, one of the things I really look forward to is being able to con	5.0×	78k	364	14	53
33	Nov 30, '24	I used a metaphor that upset some people. I welcomed the feedback, and I have deleted the tweet. I also apologise to anyone I might have offended. The rest of the tweet is about so	4.9×	77k	287	32	73
34	Oct 21, '25	One of the most important papers of the year.	4.6×	72k	380	25	147
35	Jul 7, '19	View point invariance is an important inductive bias in how we perceive objects - here tested to the limit by a smart artist.	4.4×	0	1.1k	310	66
36	Jan 25, '23	This video on distributed neural net training should be part of every machine learning & AI course in the world. It is brilliantly done. Thanks ⁦@gbarthmaron⁩ for pointing me t	4.4×	69k	368	72	307
37	Dec 10, '23	Once upon a time at a #NeurIPS party. So much changed. Thanks @sirbayes for finding this.	3.7×	59k	283	2	16
38	Apr 3, '21	Mike Jordan defending ML engineering! Good engineering gave us the GPU convnets, the transformers, torch, numpy, etc. The popular diminishing meme “it’s-just-engineering” is silly,	3.5×	0	975	144	92
39	May 5, '19	Beautiful explanation of transformer neural networks	3.5×	0	736	211	137
40	Aug 7, '25	Work life balance is a top priority. Yes, there was nearly a decade in my life when I worked 98 hours, but I did it out of need and aspiration, not because anyone forced me. During	3.2×	50k	462	21	240
41	May 9, '22	Game over. Scale is essential to AI.	3.2×	0	857	83	96
42	Oct 19, '24	I partly disagree, Yann. First, I called on both big tech and government to be clear. Second, Tech corporations are partly responsible and cannot be excused. SF is where they opera	3.1×	48k	338	7	23
43	Sep 3, '24	It is remarkable that anyone can now train a 124M parameter LLM in about real-time on a MacBook M3. So easy to experiment. This would have been the stuff of dreams when I was in sc	3.0×	47k	520	27	138
44	Sep 21, '19	Last decade in AI was about solving big associative learning: Language models, image labelling, speech recognition, lipreading, Starcraft, etc. A triumph! The recipe was always the	2.8×	0	711	159	48
45	Mar 11, '23	Diffusion as a neural net, a language model in jax, attention and transformers — some slides from my ⁦@Khipu_AI⁩ tutorial	2.7×	43k	340	52	134
46	Jun 28, '20	Our field lacks diversity. This is the biggest danger of AI. As we witnessed this week, it is not easy to tear the chains of history. Few of us are able to rise above our environme	2.5×	0	626	151	35
47	Jun 8, '25	Many people work through the weekend, without time to announce it on Twitter. I spent my Sunday happily with my family and friends, supporting and sharing love. I feel as a result	2.5×	39k	368	11	36
48	Jun 6, '18	Building a Deep Neural Network to play FIFA 18	2.5×	0	576	181	30
49	Dec 31, '18	For anyone wanting to make their lectures freely available to everyone . It’s highly rewarding when people approach me at conferences and tell me they got into machine learning by	2.4×	0	704	99	31
50	Jun 18, '20	This is such an important tweet for new researchers: A Turing award winner’s public admission that failure is ok. It’s through trying and failing (ie falsifying some hypotheses) th	2.3×	0	711	115	10
51	Feb 24, '22	What role can the AI community play in a world where bullies attack peaceful democratic countries 🇺🇦 and threaten the world? I’m really curious to hear from everyone.	2.3×	0	534	47	44
52	Oct 3, '19	27,600 GPUs, 1/2 PB data, and a neural net with 220,000,000 weights. More please!	2.2×	0	544	102	44
53	Sep 6, '25	I loved this research paper on Flow Matching, the most popular approach for video gen. TLDR: More data means harder to fit any specific data (say image), better generalisation, gre	2.2×	35k	308	24	332
54	Oct 26, '19	A neural net solves the three-body problem 100 million times faster	2.1×	0	484	130	60
55	Jun 16, '18	Solving the Rubik's Cube Without Human Data	2.1×	0	461	171	29
56	Dec 7, '19	Dear friends, this year I will not attend #NeurIPS2019. This is the last year before my littlest daughter starts going to school. It is important for dads to spend time with their	2.1×	0	838	12	2
57	Mar 2, '18	It is beyond any doubt that over the next few years we will perfect the technology for automatically generating a video of anyone saying anything we type, with the right voice too.	2.1×	0	387	170	8
58	Jul 6, '21	The future of deep learning, according to its pioneers – Wise insights.	2.0×	0	407	89	122
59	Feb 9, '19	Ptolemy was a genius, but alas! a simpler model came along. Keep it simple and ensure it makes good testable predictions.	2.0×	0	463	116	70
60	Dec 14, '18	“I think the brain isn’t concerned with squeezing a lot of knowledge into a few connections, it’s concerned with extracting knowledge quickly using lots of connections.” Geoff Hint	2.0×	0	468	132	38
61	Jul 1, '19	Machine learning to automatically translate long-lost languages	2.0×	0	421	154	32
62	Feb 21, '25	Feeling pressure to work more than 5 days per week? Don’t. I’ve been super productive all my life and I never worked on the weekend unless I was excited about something. I don’t re	2.0×	31k	485	23	63
63	Sep 13, '19	I recommend this paper with theoretical and algorithmic insights on metalearning to researchers interested in hierarchical Bayes, MAML, and Reptile. It addresses the idea of learni	2.0×	0	434	106	88
64	Aug 17, '24	What happens to a company is not only the result of how good and committed their tech people are, but it is greatly influenced by the business decisions, the leadership, and the op	1.9×	30k	389	10	34
65	Dec 21, '18	Our meta-learning approach is state-of-the-art in Text-2-Speech, and does it in 5mins instead of 4 hours. This shows that neural nets can work with few data, when we embrace many t	1.8×	0	427	119	35
66	Dec 20, '18	My slides for the #NeurIPS2018 Meta-Learning are now up. Big thanks to the organisers!	1.8×	0	398	114	51
67	Sep 14, '17	Deep learning and TF, without a Ph.D. by Martin Görner. Brilliant teaching resource @DeepIndaba	1.7×	0	434	144	0
68	Mar 10, '19	⁦Yann @ylecun⁩ is a visionary who advocated for SGD, GANs, convnets, contrastive losses, deep nonlinear models, autodiff modular software, etc when most thought he was joking. As a	1.7×	0	496	89	22
69	Feb 10, '18	Why do we label emotions as positive and negative? It’s unsatisfactory that such a key component of cognition is modelled with such a crass binary classifier. In AI we need to get	1.7×	0	419	108	0
70	Dec 28, '19	It would help the discussion if everyone first 1. reads a causal inference book, eg , 2. watches a deep learning course emphasising modularity, compositionality and automatic diffe	1.7×	0	324	68	125
71	Aug 24, '19	I agree. This was a phenomenal paper. I’m hoping it will inspire researchers to probe further.	1.7×	0	419	75	69
72	Sep 30, '18	ICLR 2019 lessons thus far: The deep neural nets have to be BIGGER and they’re hungry for data, memory and compute. GANs, Res-blocks, LSTMs, convnets, & multiagent tricks are d	1.7×	0	410	111	19
73	Jan 28, '17	I'm agnostic and not a fan of religion, but I refuse to visit a country that introduces bans on Muslims and refugees. #nips2016 #nips2venues	1.7×	0	409	116	0
74	Sep 26, '25	After 55, one reflects on life. For me, mathematics was the most beautiful world I encountered.	1.6×	26k	283	6	23
75	Jun 24, '20	This is a superb and inspiring artificial intelligence talk. The best I’ve heard this year. Anyone interested in vision, control, robotics or managing AI projects should watch this	1.6×	0	288	70	124
76	Oct 23, '19	The @OpenAI paper is excellent. It is an achievement and it highlights the biggest AGI challenges (perception, long-horizon, exploration, motor control, compositionality, meta and	1.6×	0	402	92	33
77	Mar 13, '17	Google Brain’s new super fast and highly accurate AI: the Mixture of Experts Layer.	1.6×	0	341	155	0
78	Mar 2, '19	Where can we find other cool examples of continuous systems like this one being used to output discrete symbols? Could be potentially nice for neural networks. Thanks!	1.5×	0	407	66	37
79	Nov 12, '19	The poster has no affiliation because in Guatemala AI research is what committed researchers do at night on their own, after a day of work. Touching and inspiring ⁦@Khipu_AI⁩	1.5×	0	470	62	6
80	Dec 7, '20	This will be a long thread. It represents my views solely. Many are puzzled by why I feel it possible to support both @JeffDean and @timnitGebru so I’d like to explain. I will star	1.5×	0	425	33	48
81	May 29, '19	The Illustrated BERT, ELMo, and co. (How NLP Cracked Transfer Learning)	1.4×	0	297	72	63
82	Jan 10, '19	Neural Ordinary Differential Equations .... blog explains	1.4×	0	303	83	46
83	Dec 7, '16	What a amazing authoritative tutorial on deep reinforcement learning at #nips2016 - a must read set of slides!	1.3×	0	309	123	1
84	Mar 13, '19	For anyone interested in meta-learning / learning to learn / continual learning / robotics / imitation, I’ll be giving a talk covering these topics at the Turing Institute in Londo	1.3×	0	381	63	21
85	Mar 31, '17	One-Shot Imitation Learning - This paper is excellent.	1.3×	0	325	103	2
86	Mar 14, '18	At 17 from Caracas to Joburg, I stopped in Rio for 3 days. I bought a book. It changed me. It was my company in dark hardworking days selling beer for a living. At 21 I went to uni	1.3×	0	434	55	0
87	Oct 22, '21	Shaking the foundations: delusions in sequence models for interaction and control. I learned so much from Pedro Ortega in this thought-provocative AI project. Great way to spend ti	1.3×	0	271	31	89
88	Jun 6, '17	One of the most important deep learning papers of the year, thus far.	1.2×	0	299	99	0
89	Dec 3, '19	This type of intelligence always amazes me.	1.2×	0	321	64	14
90	Dec 9, '20	This is EPIC!! It will go in history as one of the best #neurips talks of all times. ⁦@isbellHFh⁩ and colleagues 💜💙💚💛🧡❤️ on: Can’t Escape Hyperparameters and Latent Variables:	1.2×	0	271	35	71
91	May 12, '22	Two years in the making by a talented, collaborative, and fun team, and with enormous help and support from many others at @DeepMind. No better place to be! Congrats @scott_e_reed	1.1×	0	328	26	29
92	Sep 17, '20	So glad to see the value of scientific software frameworks being properly recognised.	1.1×	0	346	44	13
93	Jun 22, '18	Adobe is using machine learning to make it easier to spot Photoshopped images	1.1×	0	273	79	7
94	Oct 20, '19	I find it funny folks are focusing on the symbolic challenge. The big challenge is attaching that hand to a moving controllable robot arm, and preferably having two coordinated han	1.1×	0	295	47	23
95	Jan 15, '22	Here is a great challenge for quadruped robotics — Super Cat Intelligence. 🐭 risky, but nonetheless good benchmark tasks	1.1×	0	298	43	24
96	Jan 25, '18	#ICLR 2019 could happen in Cape Town, South Africa. It’s time for an ML conference to go to Africa. It’s the right thing to do, and we all know it.	1.1×	0	307	57	0
97	Oct 20, '21	If you’re advertising a machine learning or AI scholarship or job on Twitter, please consider announcing it to @QueerinAI @AiDisability @black_in_ai @Khipu_AI @DeepIndaba @_LXAI @W	1.0×	0	273	51	22
98	Nov 15, '19	It is incredibly transformative when a tech leader like @JeffDean participates at events like @Khipu_AI and @DeepIndaba He gives hope, builds confidence, and helps create new oppor	1.0×	0	333	38	5
99	Nov 5, '17	This is one of the most thought provoking and transforming books I have read recently. Solid research, heart-warming. Highly recommend it.	1.0×	0	310	44	1
100	Mar 10, '19	Today I felt very positive about the work I’ve been doing with students at UBC and Oxford, and with colleagues at DeepMind when (1) a complete stranger approached me at a Camden gy	0.8×	0	291	12	5

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