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Rafael Pinto

@rcpinto.bsky.social

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CS / AI / ML PhD / Professor. 🇧🇷 Working on meta-learning, continual learning, control, evo, RL, game AI. Hobbyist game dev (@megamanbeyond.com) Local news and useless facts about my life in PT-BR. EN otherwise.

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Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 1d

Buttobi CPU, I see you're a person of culture.

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 1d

Counterfactual reasoning✔

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 1d

The best reason to root for Helix and their Figure robots so far:

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Levin would like to have a word.

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, thank God!

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 4d

After using Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-5 for highly novel theoretical neural networks research, I must say that, at least for my case, GPT-5 is the clear winner. The "Ph.D. level" claims are correct (and of course, like any human Ph.D., it also makes stupid mistakes now and then).

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 5d

Pensei que fosse o Toninho do Diabo.

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 5d

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 5d

Define "normal".

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 5d

I wasn't familiar with that concept at all, but it seems very relevant to the subject indeed, thanks!

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 5d

bsky.app/profile/rcpi...

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · Aug 9

IOW, there are at least 2 kinds of "knowing" / "understanding" when talking about LLMs, and people usually confuse and/or conflate both.

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 5d

Do you realize the abysmal difference between being a user (and "looking into it") and doing decades of research and, in fact, creating the very foundation for those things?

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 5d

a close up of an older man 's face with the words `` ironic '' written on his face .

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Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 5d

The hatred coming from the butthurt anti-AI mob is now comparable to that of far-right scumbags.

It's one thing to dislike the technology, but the way they're responding to some people here is sick to say the least.

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 5d

Wow, didn't know such a document existed.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 5d

If you confidently assert that LLMs (or anything else besides yourself, for that matter) are or aren't conscious, you're wrong.

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 5d

a group of men are sitting around a table in a conference room .

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Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 5d

I dream of a social network that's like a generalization of that. For any topic, you have to prove knowledge before posting.

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 5d

bsky.app/profile/rcpi...

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · Aug 9

Even if we had perfect knowledge of neuroscience, that wouldn't imply perfect knowledge of psychology.

We have perfect "LLM neuroscience", but not "LLM psychology". We know how parameters are updated and outputs are computed, but not what internal mechanisms it is learning and how it uses them.

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 5d

This is gonna happen very soon. The signs are crystal clear.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMbA...

Steven Spielberg's A.I.-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (2001) - The Flesh Fair

YouTube video by Chris Spencer

www.youtube.com

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 6d

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 6d

The results show exactly the opposite.

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 6d

Here we go, another thread full of geniuses and experts that know everything about how AI is just autocomplete. I'm glad to grow my block list, tho.

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 6d

Dumb take.

Rafael Pinto @rcpinto.bsky.social · 8d

That made me chuckle @tedunderwood.me