@wwdabney

Research scientist at DeepMind. On the critical path to AGI. Also, a persistent optimist.

 Seattle, WA
willdabney.com
Joined May 2015
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What is happening? AI and flying cars I guess.
Tesla
@TeslaOct 16
Real life, baby
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Argon is a model I *actually* enjoy using. They did a great job.
Google DeepMind
@GoogleDeepMindSep 30
Introducing Gemini 4 Argon – our new frontier model. It’s built for complex workflows across coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense – rolling out today to a set of trusted testers through our Fairwind Program.
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RLDM@RLDMParis2027Sep 29
📣 Save the date! RLDM 2027, the Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making, is coming to Paris, July 6-9, 2027 🎉 Stay tuned for submission deadlines and more updates on our website rldm.org 👀
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I’m much more concerned about a few companies and countries coordinating to maintain exclusive control over what super intelligence is allowed to do than I am about some AI-doomsday. This all reads as some combination of negligence and self-serving fear mongering.
Dario Amodei
@DarioAmodeiSep 12
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training. You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

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What interesting timing.
Polymarket
@PolymarketSep 10
JUST IN: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs two AI safety bills regulating outside audits of AI systems, with backing from Anthropic & OpenAI.
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Anthony GX-Chen
@AntChen_Sep 10
Why should a generative model be diverse? 👀 If there’s an obviously best answer, why put probability on worse ones? New paper: a perspective on what diversity is *for*, and an algorithm on post-training for the right amount 🌹. 🧵🔽 [1/12]
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Yann LeCun
@ylecunJul 18
Replying to @deanwball
The "ungovernability" (and openness) of Linux and the Internet is precisely what has made their success. The same will be true of open weight AI foundation models.
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2026 @uwcnc annual get together is a banger: a hackathon on the @AllenInstitute’s dynamic routing data, a workshop by Lenny Aharon on lightning3D pose estimation, + great line-up of trainee and senior speakers @Antihebbiann @ItsNeuronal @wwdabney + bonus visitor @JasonSynaptic
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David Abel@dabelcs4 Nov 2025
Thrilled to share our new #NeurIPS2025 paper done at @GoogleDeepMind, Plasticity as the Mirror of Empowerment We prove every agent faces a trade-off between its capacity to adapt (plasticity) and its capacity to steer (empowerment) Paper: david-abel.github.io/plastic… 🧵🧵🧵👇
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"cutting off your nose to spite your face.”
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Amazing setting for @RL_Conference in Edmonton. The weather feels perfect and the bus pass included in registration 🤌
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Official results are in - Gemini achieved gold-medal level in the International Mathematical Olympiad! 🏆 An advanced version was able to solve 5 out of 6 problems. Incredible progress - huge congrats to @lmthang and the team! deepmind.google/discover/blo…

Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the Interna...

The International Mathematical Olympiad (“IMO”) is the world’s most prestigious competition for young mathematicians, and has been held annually since 1959. Each country taking part is represented by...

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OpenReview seems to be essentially down? I guess I’m not the only one submitting last minute NeurIPS reviews.
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Yeah strike that “essentially”, full on down.
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Love this response.
Demis Hassabis
@demishassabis2 Jul 2025
now wouldn't that be something...
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The moment all of my agents have trained for has finally arrived. Real world impact here we come!
Tansu Yegen
@TansuYegen13 Apr 2025
Porsche Cayenne attempts to escape the swamp that no other vehicle has been able to exit.
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Pulling this over as research advice (for myself): Feedback beats planning It’s a lesson I have to relearn now and then because of the allure of an intuitive hypothesis.
John Carmack
@ID_AA_Carmack10 Apr 2025
I have never seen it expressed exactly like that, but I wholeheartedly endorse it: Feedback beats planning. My plea at Meta was “No grand plans, follow the gradient of user value”.
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Clare Lyle@clarelyle17 Mar 2025
📣📣 My team at Google DeepMind is hiring a student researcher for summer/fall 2025 in Seattle! If you're a PhD student interested in getting deep RL to (finally) work reliably in interesting domains, apply at the link below and reach out to me via email so I know you aplied👇
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Some fantastic news about a very well deserved award! Congratulations Andy and Rich, today the entire field is celebrating you and with you. awards.acm.org/about/2024-tu…

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing...

For developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning.

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Very pleased to share our recent work, in which we use LLMs for automated discovery of interpretable models of animal behavior 🪰🐀🕵️‍♀️ that take the form of Python programs 🐍 See below for a summary of key results by @pcastr!
Pablo Samuel Castro@pcastr10 Feb 2025
Can LLMs be used to discover interpretable models of human and animal behavior?🤔 Turns out: yes! Thrilled to share our latest preprint where we used FunSearch to automatically discover symbolic cognitive models of behavior. 1/12
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