Pessimists Archive

Hugo Larochelle

@hugo_larochelle

Mila Scientific Director. Scientific Lead @adaption_ai, advisor @tiptreesystems & @PrizmalAi. Ex @Google DeepMind & Twitter Cortex. Father of 4.

Noam Brown

@polynoamial

Researching reasoning @OpenAI | Co-created Libratus/Pluribus superhuman poker AIs, CICERO Diplomacy AI, and OpenAI o-series 🍓 reasoning models

Durk Kingma

@dpkingma

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

Richard Socher

@RichardSocher

Building self-improving superintelligence CEO @recursive_si and @youdotcom MP @aixventuresHQ Ex: Stanford Adj Prof, Chief Scientist at Salesforce, CEO MetaMind

Yejin Choi

@YejinChoinka

professor at Stanford, researcher at NVIDIA, adventurer at heart

Soumith Chintala

@soumithchintala

Building new things @thinkymachines. Also dabble in robotics at NYU. Cofounded @PyTorch. AI is delicious when it is accessible and open-source.

Lucas Beyer (bl16)

@giffmana

Researcher (now: Meta. ex: OpenAI, DeepMind, Brain, RWTH Aachen), Gamer, Hacker, Belgian. Anon feedback: https://www.admonymous.co/giffmana ✗DMs → email

Liam Fedus

@LiamFedus

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

rohan anil

@_arohan_

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

Aravind Srinivas

@AravSrinivas

cofounder and ceo @perplexity_ai

Christian Szegedy

@ChrSzegedy

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

Elad Gil

@eladgil

Entrepreneur & Investor

Arvind Narayanan

@random_walker

Princeton CS prof and Director @PrincetonCITP. Coauthor of "AI Snake Oil" and "AI as Normal Technology". https://www.normaltech.ai/ Views mine.

Jeff Clune

@jeffclune

Co-founder, Recursive. Professor, CS, U. British Columbia. CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute. | ML, AI, deep RL, deep learning, AI-Generating Algorithms (AI-GAs)

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

@jaschasd

Member of the technical staff @ Anthropic. Most (in)famous for inventing diffusion models. AI + physics + neuroscience + dynamics.

Boaz Barak

@boazbaraktcs

Computer Scientist. See also http://windowsontheory.org . @harvard @openai opinions my own.

Lex Fridman

@lexfridman

Host of Lex Fridman Podcast. Interested in robots and humans.

Leopold Aschenbrenner

@leopoldasch

http://situational-awareness.ai

Balaji

@balajis

Author of the Network State. Founder of the Network School.

tobi lutke

@tobi

Shopify CEO by day, Dad in evening, hacker at night, Aspiring comprehensivist.

Kevin Weil 🇺🇸

@kevinweil

BoD @Cisco @Stoke_Space LTC @USArmyReserve Ex CPO+Science @OpenAI, Pres @Planet, Head of Product @Instagram @Twitter ❤️ @elizabeth ultramarathons kids cats math

Amjad Masad

@amasad

ceo @replit. civilizationist

Dylan Field

@zoink

eliminate the gap between imagination and reality

Adam D'Angelo

@adamdangelo

CEO of Quora, working on Poe: @poe_platform

Palmer Luckey

@PalmerLuckey

I am a technology enthusiast, writer, and modder. Founder of @ModRetro, @Oculus VR, and @Anduriltech. Keeping American superheroes safe with autonomous systems.

Ben Thompson

@benthompson

Author/Founder of @stratechery. Host of @ditheringfm @sharptechpod. @notechben for sports. @monkbent on other networks. Home on the Internet.

Joanne Jang

@joannejang

trying to automate my work @coreauto // prev: model behavior & labs @openai

vitalik.eth

@VitalikButerin

I choose balance. First-level balance. mi pinxe lo crino tcati https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/09/12/in-the-balance/

benahorowitz.eth

@bhorowitz

martin_casado

@martin_casado

@ a16z

Aidan Gomez

@aidangomez

cofounder @cohere

Jon Barron

@jon_barron

Principal research scientist at Google DeepMind. Synthesized views are my own.

Alex Tamkin

@AlexTamkin

machine learning, science & society @AnthropicAI | recently: Clio, Anthropic Economic Index, Claude Artifacts | prev: phd @StanfordAILab, @stanfordnlp

Rohan Pandey

@khoomeik

descending cross-entropy to ascend entropy @PeriodicLabs || prev research @OpenAI @CarnegieMellon '23

David Luan

@jluan

retired!! former cofounder of @adeptailabs, vp engineering @openai and @amazon, and @google LLMs lead. all about type II fun.

Richard Ngo

@RichardMCNgo

eppur lo si può muovere

rapha

@rapha_gl

research lead @ openai

Brian Armstrong

@brian_armstrong

Co-founder & CEO @Coinbase. Creating more economic freedom in the world. Co-founder @researchhub @newlimit. Not investment advice.

Kamalika Chaudhuri

@kamalikac

Researcher, Google Deepmind. Formerly, Director FAIR @ Meta. Former Professor at UCSD. Researcher in AI privacy, security, and generalization.

Anjney Midha

@AnjneyMidha

founder, scientist, teacher @amppublic @stanford @frontiersystems • scaling alignment.

Theo Weber

@theophaneweber

Research scientist @ DeepMind; currently working on thinking/reasoning in Gemini.

Lachy Groom

@lachygroom

it's pronounced locky. lachygroom@gmail.com. π.com

Shreya Shankar

@sh_reya

Incoming assistant professor @CSDatCMU @CMUDB. Putting LLMs in databases and BI tools. Created http://docetl.org and http://evals.info.

Patrick OShaughnessy

@patrick_oshag

building @psumvc @colossusmag hosting @investlikebest

cat

@_catwu

claude code + cowork @anthropicai, prev: @dagster, @scale_ai

François Fleuret

@francoisfleuret

Research Scientist @meta (FAIR), Prof. @Unige_en, co-founder @neural_concept_. I like reality.

niki parmar

@nikiparmar09

Working @Anthropic. Views expressed here are my own.