Neuroscience PhD 🎓 • ex-QA Engineer @unity 👨💻 • ex-Research Fellow @UniofOxford 🏛️ • Into learning 📚, XR 🥽, games 🎮, AI 🤖, brains 🧠 & meditation 🧘♂️
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Joined November 2015
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I'm very happy to share that next month I'll be joining @unity3d, the world’s leading platform for creating interactive, real-time 3D content (youtu.be/1Gj9X9EQrBQ). I'll be part of their Developer Support team, helping creators across industries & around the world bring (1/3)
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Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model.
Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions.
openai.com/sora
Prompt: “Beautiful, snowy Tokyo city is bustling. The camera moves through the bustling city street, following several people enjoying the beautiful snowy weather and shopping at nearby stalls. Gorgeous sakura petals are flying through the wind along with snowflakes.”
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Want to flexibly manipulate many cortical regions, but don't know how to build a random access optogenetics system? We present Zapit: an #opensource hardware and user-friendly software system to make this technology more widely available. Our preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.12.5…
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An article about my vociferous support of open source AI platforms.
Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, and Sam Altman (among others) have scared governments about what they claim are risks of AI-fueled catastrophes.
I know that Demis, at least, is sincere in his claims, but I think those claims are incorrect and counterproductive.
The inevitable *effect*, intentional or not, if governments believe those claims would be a regulatory capture profiting their companies.
I do think that the short-term societal dangers of proprietary AI systems that will soon mediate everyone's digital diet are considerably higher than any imagined catastrophe caused by the misuse of open source AI systems.
And I believe that the benefits of open source AI platforms in terms of progress, safety, economic development, and cultural diversity are overwhelming.
businessinsider.com/sam-altm…
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Final version of @nikasamborska's awesome generalisation paper now online: nature.com/articles/s41593-0…
Data:
gin.g-node.org/vsamborska/da…
Code:
github.com/veronikasamborska…
Excitingly: last author Thomas Akam has just won a @wellcometrust fellowship to start his own lab - look out for jobs!
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Many congrats to our lab head Mark (or we should say Prof Walton)!!🎉🍾
We have a newly-minted professor to announce!
Mark Walton has been awarded the title of Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience.
Congratulations, Prof Walton!
@OxfordWIN @MRCBNDU @EcrXchange @WaltonLabNeuro @OxfordMedSci
➡️bit.ly/3fvKeO0
ALT Photo of Mark Walton with quote that reads: I'm delighted to have been awarded this title. I've been lucky enough to have been supported by outstanding lab members and collaborators who should all take much credit for this accolade.
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Why do we support the introduction of #trafficfilters in #Oxford?
Councillor Louise Upton, Cabinet Member for Health and Transport, gives her five reasons ⬇️
Have your say by heading to: letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/…
Hard to overstate how significant this is!
Excited to share our #NeurIPS2022 @NVIDIAAI work GET3D, a generative model that directly produces explicit textured 3D meshes with complex topology, rich geometric details, and high fidelity textures. #3D
Project page: nv-tlabs.github.io/GET3D/
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Having been promised an energy price freeze, millions will be shocked when hit with a 25% rise in fuel bills in October.
5 million kids risk being pushed into poverty, with charities having to stop feeding the hungry so they can help the starving.
We have to act.
[THREAD]
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However many times the marketing will rebrand alternate realities, in the end we are going to walk through many digital layers at the same time. That revolution starts in your home.
Experiment made with @ShapesXR
@Meta #passthrough
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Whenever I work a trade show or exhibit, especially with #XR components or complex IT architecture, I always specifically request Kai as support.
If you need a Senior IT Ops Specialist with 23yrs experience who can build, support & fix literally anything - nab him while you can!
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10+ years ago, while still an undergrad, I read this passage from The Mind Machine. It resonated so much with me that it triggered my interest in neuroscience. Some years later, I had the fortune to have him as a lecturer during my first week at Oxford. I'll be forever grateful.
Sir Colin Blakemore obituary theguardian.com/science/2022…
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"A Trillion Hours of Play."
Incredulously humbled & thankful for this new collaboration between @unity & 4 universities including
@ImperialDyson, trying to funnel the hose of all player data hoses toward understanding & improving games & the world.
Would you like to know how billions of people play mobile games? I am incredibly proud and honored to announce our collaboration with Unity Technologies on the largest games research project ever - first results are now available!: digitalcreativity.ac.uk/news… #unity3d #games
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If you are feeling unsafe where you are and you want to stay in science, consider Germany for your next step. Masters' and PhD programmes are taught in English, you don't pay extortionate fees, as a PhD student you are (usually) employed by the uni with healthcare 1/n
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Tip 3 - Code isn't obligatory for prototyping
When they see my creations, people are really surprised by what I can do without knowing how to code.
My secret? 📣Artists, designers, and creators of any kind the Unity Asset Store is your best friend!
@GregMadison
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With all the cute, quirky #dalle2 AI images that have been circulating these last few days, I wanted to share some other images* that DALL-E 2 also made that you may not have seen.
*Warning: these are quite distressing
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This is an excellent book that really shaped my views on academia...
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You can currently get a free Kindle copy of my philosophy of science book on Amazon. Offer lasts until Friday.
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