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Arturo Deza
@ArtDeza
Building Robotaxis in LATAM before it was cool @Artificio_Org 🏎️ β€’ Prev: NeuroAI PostDoc: @MIT+@Harvard 🧠. Was once a Professor 🦈 β€’ Peruviano πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ͺ
Lima, Peru
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    Arturo Deza
    @ArtDeza
    Aug 17, 2022
    πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Dream came true today: My EB-1A Green Card petition for Aliens of Extraordinary Ability was approved! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Some of you may have known that I spent the last year working on a 600 page document, that would otherwise cost a lawyer $15'000 to prepare and file.
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    Arturo Deza
    @ArtDeza
    Aug 16, 2023
    Big dream come true! Very happy & excited to announce that I have recently moved back to Lima, Peru (my home town!) to start an Assistant Professor position this August in Computer Science at @UTECuniversidad πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ͺπŸš€ Vamos con fuerza ! 🦾
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    Arturo Deza
    @ArtDeza
    Nov 6, 2023
    Replying to @AcademicChatter
    A PhD says more about perseverance rather than intelligence. Perseverance being an underrated quality in life and Intelligence being an overrated one.
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    Arturo Deza
    @ArtDeza
    Aug 3, 2024
    Yup, I've had VCs tell me "nice try buddy, I'm investing in the 19 year old dropouts who don't know linear algebra but know all the Buzzwords. They're young and hungry." πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈπŸ˜‚
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    Mariya I. Vasileva
    @mariyaivasileva
    Aug 3, 2024
    In 2024 startup world, being an expert in AI with the credentials and years of practice to back it up feels like trying to sell genuine Louis Vuitton bags at the bazaar in Istanbul.
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    Arturo Deza
    @ArtDeza
    Apr 1, 2024
    Replying to @jowyang
    While obviously not the same thing and the ripple pattern is different. We have a pretty epic oasis and dunes in Peru like Huacachina.
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    Arturo Deza
    @ArtDeza
    May 24, 2020
    Replying to @jacasiegel
    Respectfully disagreeing here. I had a blast! I lived by the beach (Santa Barbara), went surfing everyday, had academic freedom, lived by myself, made amazing friends, traveled the world (for conferences), took risks, woke up everyday at 11 am.
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    Arturo Deza
    @ArtDeza
    Feb 19, 2021
    Replying to @NoFumoTabaco
    But then you remember the Nazca Lines from the Incan Empire y 'Todo Good'!
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    Arturo Deza
    @ArtDeza
    Oct 19, 2022
    1/ I am excited to announce that we've started @Artificio_Org, a new privately-funded Moonshot R&D lab that aims to Solve Visual Intelligence in Humans & Machines and everywhere in between w/ @W33lliam96, @WangBinxu & Colin Conwell artificio.org
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    Arturo Deza
    @ArtDeza
    May 22, 2024
    Completely agree with Yann. I'd argue the next gen of AI systems will come from Computational Neuroscientists PhD students, not Computer Science PhD students. The NeuroAI wave is coming πŸ‘€
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    Yann LeCun
    @ylecun
    May 22, 2024
    If you are a student interested in building the next generation of AI systems, don't work on LLMs
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    Arturo Deza
    @ArtDeza
    Jan 31, 2022
    Excited to announce that my first paper as senior author: β€œFinding Biological Plausibility for Adversarially Robust Features via Metameric Tasks” has been accepted to ICLR (Spotlight scores 8,8,8,8) with lead of former undergrad Anne Harrington @MIT_CBMM:
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    Finding Biological Plausibility for Adversarially Robust Features...
    Recent work suggests that feature constraints in the training datasets of deep neural networks (DNNs) drive robustness to adversarial noise (Ilyas et al., 2019). The representations learned by such...
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    Arturo Deza
    @ArtDeza
    Jan 12, 2022
    Your student is both the hero academia needs and deserves πŸ˜‚
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    Arturo Deza
    @ArtDeza
    Aug 17, 2022
    Replying to @ArtDeza
    I also couldn't have done this alone without the help of many friends, family and mentors, so if anyone ever finds themselves in a similar situation, drop me a line, happy to help! πŸ˜€ [I may even start a YouTube channel as a side-gig for scientists who are immigrants]
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    Arturo Deza
    @ArtDeza
    Jan 24, 2024
    Yes, this is why I also recommend my students who want to do Frontier AI to *NOT* pursue a PhD in Computer Science, but in Psychology, Neuroscience or Cognitive Science instead and pickup AI on the side.
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    FranΓ§ois Chollet
    @fchollet
    Jan 24, 2024
    Replying to @fchollet
    I am more interested in a system with the cognitive abilities of a 4-year-old than in a big curve that has memorized the entire Internet.
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    Arturo Deza
    @ArtDeza
    Apr 15, 2021
    Replying to @MilesElliot
    Mine was epic! Went surfing everyday, had a beach house, worked a solid 50 hrs per week with afternoon and night shifts, painted like a bohemian, great lab culture, and amazing advisor! For those interested, this was the Dynamical Neuroscience program at @ucsantabarbara

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