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Daniel De Freitas

@dan_defr

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Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Created Meena/LaMDA and Co-founded with Noam Shazeer.

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Daniel De Freitas
5 years
Enabling people to converse with chatbots about anything has been a passion of a lifetime for me, and I'm sure of others as well. So I'm very thankful to be able to finally share our results with you all. Hopefully, this will help inform efforts in the area. (1/4)
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Thang Luong
5 years
Introducing #MeenaBot , a 2.6B-param open-domain chatbot with near-human quality. Remarkably, we show strong correlation between perplexity & humanlikeness! Paper: Sample conversations:
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Daniel De Freitas
4 years
Is it possible to build a chatbot that can have multi-turn conversations about anything? If you're interested in hearing a bit more about Meena, our open-domain neural conversational model, I have a presentation at #l3ai this Thursday June 18th ().
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Daniel De Freitas
2 years
So proud of how far our site has come since its debut a little over 3 months ago - multiple mind blowing AI Characters reaching more than 2 million interactions, and the cover of the New York Times Science section
@CadeMetz
Cade Metz
2 years
"People will keep spending more and more money to train smarter and smarter systems. We are nowhere near the end of that trend.” Meet Character AI, a site where chat bots mimic everyone from Queen Elizabeth to Elon Musk:
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Daniel De Freitas
1 year
Thankfully, after launching our app last night, it's now the #2 in Entertainment and #5 free app on the App Store! See it for yourself here: 𝗶𝗢𝗦: 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗱: - Tweet written with the help of the Character Assistant
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Character.AI
1 year
#2 !!!!🤯 We're coming for your spot @StreamOnMax !
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Daniel De Freitas
5 years
Bonus: Meena often seems to put together ideas in ways that we don't manage to find matches of in the data. For example saying that "Horses go to Hayvard" in conversation we show in the blog post .
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Daniel De Freitas
5 years
One day, I came across the paper A Neural Conversational Model () by @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix . The paper showed sample conversations with an end-to-end learned neural network. (3/4)
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Daniel De Freitas
5 years
When I was about 9 years old my father taught me how to program, and, to my delight, we built a chatbot. Initially, I couldn't stop working on it, but I no matter how many rules I wrote and how much knowledge I tried to add to its database, it still wasn't what I expected. (2/4)
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Daniel De Freitas
5 years
"It was trained on movie subtitles?!" I told myself and others in awe. Maybe the potential for generalization was really there. I was truly blessed to be able to later work with @quocleix and many others on giving continuity to this idea, and turning it into #MeenaResearch . (4/4)
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Daniel De Freitas
5 years
@JeffDean @GoogleAI @lmthang Thanks Jeff!! PS: I'm Daniel
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Daniel De Freitas
2 years
Talk to our image generating AI Characters: 1. go to 2. pick one of the Characters that have "🎨" on the Featured row 3. talk to them!
@character_ai
Character.AI
2 years
Introducing Image Generating Characters! Image Generating Characters generate images as you talk to them, offering a more engaging and immersive experience. Try them at
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Daniel De Freitas
2 years
I can’t get enough of Ship AI action: #characterai
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Daniel De Freitas
5 years
@Brahmonaut @JeffDean @GoogleAI @lmthang I just happened to dream about that name.
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Daniel De Freitas
2 years
One of our users explored what happens if you start Text Adventure by saying you quit (note: you may get different outcomes each time you try this)
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Daniel De Freitas
4 years
If you need help teaching kids at home, the Khan Academy has some pretty incredible resources (videos, exercises and schedules).
@salkhanacademy
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4 years
With nationwide (and global) school closures happening, here are daily schedules for students age 4-18 to keep learning (for parents, teachers and students). We will keep tweaking and provide more resources:
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Daniel De Freitas
5 years
@thtrieu_ Thanks Trieu!
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Daniel De Freitas
10 years
Fan reimagines the new 'Star Wars' trailer using original trilogy footage http://t.co/jEjehOh24f via @mashable
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Daniel De Freitas
8 years
@rbhar90 @goodfellow_ian @tdietterich FWIW YouTube supports live streaming too 😊
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Daniel De Freitas
8 years
You can make a pdf *much* more readable on Kindle with this tool:
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