The hardest part about being an immigrant is not the immigration system but having to choose between pursuing a world class career and seeing your parents grow old
Keerthana Gopalakrishnan
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Keerthana Gopalakrishnan
@keerthanpg
Mother of robots. Research Lead Gemini Robotics @GoogleDeepmind. Author of "AI for Robotics" book. Opinions my own.
- A 15 story building came back from space and they caught it with a pair of tongs attached to a tower?? If you work with hardware you *know* this represents the best of engineering! Mind-blowing and inspiring!Best footage of the Super Heavy booster landing from today's mission.
00:00 - They donโt give Nobels for engineering feats and thatโs a mistake. Elon and the folks at SpaceX deserve one for making reusable rockets possible, and working steadfastedly on it for over two decades! This changes the trajectory of humanity than many other inventions.Starship rocket booster caught by tower
00:00 - Gemini Nano runs on a phone and without the internet, beginning an era of on-device LLMs, one that fits in your pocket
- Our team @GoogleDeepMind is hiring! You'll join an incredible team passionate about building AGI in the physical world. We're one of the only labs innovating at the cutting edge of both frontier LLMs & humanoids, and we have a ton of fun doing it Apply:
- With the current pace of AI research, I feel pressured to read a LOT of papers just to keep up with SOTA. But my time is limited. So @nuwandavek and I built TalkToPapers, a github util where AI will do the paper reading for you instead
- Gemini Robotics is out and is the most advanced VLA in the world! I am especially blown away by the instruction following results: it is the first time where I personally have felt that building generic embodied intelligence is within reach! Like a robot coming to life.
00:00 - Replying to @keerthanpgItโs the visceral pain in the gut knowing that as you settle into the grind your childhood, the places and characters within it, are slowly withering away to become just a figment of imagination in your head
- There are many games in life but itโs important to know what games you wanna play to win, what games youโre fine being low status in and what games you want to avoid. Once you decide, resist the pull of getting sucked into other peopleโs reward functions via social pressure.
- As a developer I spend a lot of hours trying to understand codebases, clicking through spiraling callstacks in mind-boggling fashion to add a change. What if AI can read the codebase instead and tell you exactly what to change where? @nuwandavek & I built
- In the last two years, large foundation models have proven capable of perceiving and reasoning about the world around us unlocking a key possibility for scaling robotics. We introduce a AutoRT, a framework for orchestrating robotic agents in the wild using foundation models!
GIF - Robotics is getting rapidly disrupted by AI but the knowledge to design data driven robotics is restricted to privileged conferences/labs/academic papers. Making modern robotics accessible is why @alishbaimran_ & I are writing a textbook with @OReillyMedia oreilly.com/library/view/mโฆ
- Solve AGI, use it to solve everything else, including cancer ๐An exciting milestone for AI in science: Our C2S-Scale 27B foundation model, built with @Yale and based on Gemma, generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cellular behavior, which scientists experimentally validated in living cells.ย With more preclinical and clinical tests,
- Replying to @keerthanpgImmigrants know more than anyone else the opportunity cost of being in the valley ..
