Wilka Carvalho (@cogscikid) / X

Wilka Carvalho

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Wilka Carvalho

@cogscikid

@KempnerInst research fellow @Harvard. I want to build AI that empowers the human reinforcement learning algorithm. prev: deepmind, umich, msr.

Cambridge, MA

Joined November 2015

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Wilka Carvalho
@cogscikid
Jun 2
Task diversity is supposedly key to generalization in RL. But what does it do to continual RL, where agents face one new task distribution after another? We find that past a point, more diversity actually inhibits continual reinforcement learning 🧵
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Wilka Carvalho
@cogscikid
Aug 5
we are but humble servents
Amanda Long
@_amanda_long
Aug 4
Avital Balwit is Chief of Staff to Anthropic’s CEO. She reflects on what it’s like to be one of a select few people shaping frontier AI systems and the moral gravity of what they half-jokingly call “building God.”
Wilka Carvalho
@cogscikid
Aug 4
"half-jokingly"
Amanda Long
@_amanda_long
Aug 4
Avital Balwit is Chief of Staff to Anthropic’s CEO. She reflects on what it’s like to be one of a select few people shaping frontier AI systems and the moral gravity of what they half-jokingly call “building God.”
Wilka Carvalho
@cogscikid
Aug 3
applications open to be research fellow at Kempner institute: kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu/kempner-instit… can't think of a better place to study the intersection of machine learning & cognitive science!
Kempner Research Fellowship - Kempner Institute
From kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu
Wilka Carvalho
@cogscikid
Jul 31
I love AI companies competing for "whose AI can better escape a sandbox and enter someone else's computing environment"
Sauers
@Sauers_
Jul 31