Durk Kingma

@dpkingma

@AnthropicAI. Prev. @Google Brain/DeepMind, founding team @OpenAI. Computer scientist; inventor of the VAE, Adam optimizer, and other methods. ML PhD.

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Joined March 2009

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Durk Kingma
@dpkingma
Oct 1, 2024
Personal news: I'm joining @AnthropicAI! 😄 Anthropic's approach to AI development resonates significantly with my own beliefs; looking forward to contributing to Anthropic's mission of developing powerful AI systems responsibly. Can't wait to work with their talented team,
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Durk Kingma
@dpkingma
Feb 28
Obviously I strongly support Anthropic's position here.
Anthropic
@AnthropicAI
Feb 28
A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. anthropic.com/news/statement…
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Durk Kingma
@dpkingma
Oct 30, 2025
1X seems to have the right approach to developing safe humanoid home robots. Developing full autonomy will require lots of in-distribution demonstration data, so this launch, mostly tele-operated, makes a lot of sense. I expect such robots to be ubiquitous in 5-10 years.
1X
@1x_tech
Oct 28, 2025
NEO The Home Robot Order Today
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Durk Kingma
@dpkingma
Oct 15, 2025
I really liked this interview, where Geoff manages to explain the essential bits for a general audience.
Geoffrey Hinton
@geoffreyhinton
Oct 14, 2025
I did a podcast with Jon Stewart who has always been a hero of mine. It was a lot of fun. He really wanted to understand how AI works. youtube.com/watch?v=jrK3Ps…
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Durk Kingma
@dpkingma
Oct 1, 2025
Think, people. Like many other technologies, AI technology has applications that are a net negative, unless well regulated. Don't support the anti-regulation lobby and don't support the people and the companies behind it.
New York Times Opinion
@nytopinion
Sep 30, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for how A.I. could be used in Meta's universe. But the actor and filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt is here to point out a flaw in the technology: an apparent lack of guardrails around how the company's chatbot interacts with underage users.
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