Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I'll be at Cosyne workshops next week (16th and 17th). We are hiring at Astera NeuroAI. If you are at Cosyne workshops next week and want to learn more about this exciting research team we are building at Astera, please DM me or email me at dileep@astera.org 091
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 25/02/2026News! I've joined the Astera Institute to lead its neuroscience based AGI research. Backed by $1B+ commitment over the coming decade, my team will explore novel, brain-inspired architectures and algos toward safe, efficient human-like AGI, working alongside Doris Tsao. 1/ astera.org/dileep-georg...astera.orgDileep George joins Astera to lead its neuro-inspired AGI effortDileep George is joining Astera as Head of AI, leading our AGI research division. Working alongside our Chief Scientist Doris Tsao, he and the team will explore novel, brain-inspired computational arc... 13856
Reposted by Dileep George @dileeplearningDavid Jones @davidjonesbrain.bsky.social · 18/01/2026🧵1/12 What if the DMN, limbic system, hippocampus, neural oscillations, gradients, dementia syndromes, mixed pathology, and aphantasia all fall out of the same generative brain computation? 🤯#endalz Introducing #SLOD (preprint): a new #NeuroAI framework w/ @drbreaky.bsky.socialmedia.tenor.coma man in a suit is making a funny face and says `` mind blown '' while standing in a bar .ALT: a man in a suit is making a funny face and says `` mind blown '' while standing in a bar . 12010
Reposted by Dileep George @dileeplearningDavid Jones @davidjonesbrain.bsky.social · 18/01/20266/12 The clone-structured cognitive graph (CSCG) framework pioneered by @dileeplearning.bsky.social offers a natural computational mapping for how latent diffusion could be implemented biologically along hippocampal circuitry. 151
Reposted by Dileep George @dileeplearningMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 14/01/2026My latest on Substack -- a write-up of the talk I gave at NeurIPS in December. aiguide.substack.com/p/on-evaluat...aiguide.substack.comOn Evaluating Cognitive Capabilities in Machines (and Other "Alien" Intelligences)(Apologies for the length of this post, which means it gets cut off in the email version. 012537
Reposted by Dileep George @dileeplearningSimons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 27/12/20254/4 “Language is a mechanism to control other people’s mental simulations.” Dileep George, @dileeplearning, of @GoogleDeepMind at the Simons Institute workshop on The Future of Language Models and Transformers. Video: simons.berkeley.edu/talks/dileep...simons.berkeley.eduOn cognitive maps, LLMs, world models, and understandingNo abstract available. 041
Reposted by Dileep George @dileeplearningSimons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 27/12/20251/4 Do LLMs understand? "They understand in a way that’s very different from how humans understand," Dileep George, @dileeplearning.bsky.social, of Google DeepMind at the Simons Institute workshop on The Future of Language Models and Transformers. Video: simons.berkeley.edu/talks/dileep... 1181
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 25/12/2025the one where #AGIComics figures out what academic training is all about … www.agicomics.net/c/artificial...agicomics.netAGI Comics — #35: Artificial General ScholarshipIn academia, it's not just the citation counts that counts 020
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Check out my blog on the risks of *not* building AGI! blog.dileeplearning.com/p/if-no-one-...blog.dileeplearning.comIf no one builds it, you're never born.Not building AGI is a risky thing.... 120
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Can AIs be conscious? Should we consider them as persons? Here are my current thoughts..... blog.dileeplearning.com/p/ai-conscio...blog.dileeplearning.comAI consciousness, qualia, and personhood.A note on my current positions, in a FAQ format. 391
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 20/10/2025blog.dileeplearning.com/p/quick-note... TLDR: It was fun and the process felt 'magical' at times. If you have lots of small project ideas you want to prototype, vibe-coding is a fun way to do that as long as you are willing to settle for 'good enough'.blog.dileeplearning.comQuick notes from vibe-coding a comic websiteHate less, vibe more! 040
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Those who think there's an AI bubble are unaware of a recent breakthrough.... www.agicomics.net/c/ag-breakth...agicomics.netAGI Comics — #2: Artificial General BreakthroughSelf-congratulatory learning would be a cool name for a real learning algorithm. 2100
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 20/10/2025New and improved and 10000% vibe-coded! Check out www.agicomics.netagicomics.netAGI Comics — #1: Artificial General ProductivityA comic series. 010
Reposted by Dileep George @dileeplearningBlake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 23/09/20251/4) I’m excited to announce that I have joined the Paradigms of Intelligence team at Google (github.com/paradigms-of...)! Our team, led by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, is bringing forward the next stage of AI by pushing on some of the assumptions that underpin current ML. #MLSky #AI #neurosciencegithub.comParadigms of Intelligence TeamAdvance our understanding of how intelligence evolves to develop new technologies for the benefit of humanity and other sentient life - Paradigms of Intelligence Team 2317911
Reposted by Dileep George @dileeplearningAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Jesus Christ. 4734811376
Reposted by Dileep George @dileeplearningAbhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · 17/09/20251/ 🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩 #neuroskyence 1013858
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 17/09/2025#AGIComics now has a website! And it is 100% vibe coded! Check out agicomics.netagicomics.netAGI Comics — #23: Artificial General ProductivityA comic series. 2111
Reposted by Dileep George @dileeplearningSainsbury Wellcome Centre @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social · 06/08/202512 leading neuroscientists tackle a big question: Will we ever understand the brain? Their reflections span philosophy, complexity, and the limits of scientific explanation. www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/wil... Illustration by @gilcosta.bsky.social & @joanagcc.bsky.social 2153
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Hmm…I don’t think it’s impossible. Evolution could create structures in the brain that are in correspondence with structure in the world. 141
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 15/05/2025This paper turned up on a feed, I was intrigued by it and started reading... ..but then I was quite baffled because our CSCG work seem to have tackled many of these problems in a more general setting and it's not even mentioned! So I asked ChatGPT... ...I'm impressed by the answer1. 1/🧵 1111
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Wow, very cool to see this work from Alla Karpova's lab. She had shown me the results when I visited @hhmijanelia.bsky.social and I was blown away. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/ 1335
Reposted by Dileep George @dileeplearningPessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 27/04/2025𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻'𝘀 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲? We introduce the idea of "importance" in terms of the extent to which a region's signals steer/contribute to brain dynamics as a function of brain state. Work by @codejoydo.bsky.social elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...elifesciences.orgBrain dynamics and spatiotemporal trajectories during threat processing 15417
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 27/04/2025It's kinda obvious. #AGIComics has already figured out which brain region is the most important. 😇 3245
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 30/03/2025ohh...yes...this is exactly what I think after reading some of the "deep research" reports. ....written by a committee 080
Reposted by Dileep George @dileeplearningtal yarkoni @talyarkoni.com · 28/03/2025jumping on the Gemini 2.5 bandwagon... it's an incredible model. really feels like an(other) inflection point. talking to Claude 3.7 feels like talking to a competent colleague who knows about everything, but makes mistakes. Gemini 2.5 feels like talking to a world-class expert with A+ intuitions 10574
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Give me 10 billion dollars and I’ll do it. 1 billion for developing the hardware and 9 billion to pay for my opportunity cost 😇 060
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Nope. It is an engineering problem. Give me an algorithm you think is not being scaled because of a hardware mismatch, I can make the hardware (chip + interconnect + datacenter) given enough money. Purely an engineering problem. 140
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 26/03/2025ok...in that case which other existing model would you make a bet on scaling up? Pick one. I'd be happy to raise money for it. 200
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 26/03/2025This is great....this is a hypothesis. What other such hypotheses are there? Is there a space of such hypotheses, or is this just one? (Also, how does this match with Konrad's @kordinglab.bsky.social argument about being hypothesis-free?) 170
Reposted by Dileep George @dileeplearningDileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 26/03/2025But why would you stop there? Why aren't you convinced this is how it works? It's SOTA on all the tasks.... You are not convinced because it doesn't match some brain data? 101
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Here's my Q to @kordinglab.bsky.social who argues brain is too complex to understand.... How do you know that current systems AI are NOT how the brain works? 000
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Wait... so you think brain is NOT a large transformer? How do you know that? The current empirical studies strongly support the idea that brain is a large transformer..... 330
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 26/03/2025TLDR: We need large amounts of data to finally show that brain is a large transformer that we cannot understand. 😇😝 110
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The bitter lesson is that neuroscience seems to be out of ideas... 😇 040
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Although Konrad is being brief here, the idea that “ANN are now often part of normative models and they are definitely SOTA” is something I see often. Including a component that is sota elsewhere doesn’t make a model any better. It is very possible to build sucky models with ANN. 050
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 18/03/2025If it doesn’t work, it’s called a normative model. Otherwise it’s a just a model. 😇 160
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 18/03/2025This research is "nonsense". The reviewers and editors that let this pass should be "ashamed". 2130
Reposted by Dileep George @dileeplearningThomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 18/03/2025This remains important today. As industry places huge financial bets on large language models, the research community needs to investigate other approaches that may achieve similar or better results via entirely different methods. end/ 1164
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Hmm…why is that odd? or maybe this is similar to the point I make here, but coming from the other direction? blog.dileeplearning.com/p/amelia-bed...blog.dileeplearning.comAmelia Bedelia and AGI Safety. Part 1..on the questionable beliefs behind AGI existential risk concerns 040
Reposted by Dileep George @dileeplearningDavid Chalmers @davidchalmers.bsky.social · 17/03/2025we're advertising 2-3 postdoctoral positions to work at NYU on artificial consciousness and related topics at the intersection of AI and the philosophy of mind (possibly including AI mentality, AI interpretability, and AI welfare). deadline is march 30! philjobs.org/job/show/28878philjobs.org Post-Doctoral Associate/Research Scientist, New York University - PhilJobs:JFP Post-Doctoral Associate/Research Scientist, New York University An international database of jobs for philosophers 17638
Reposted by Dileep George @dileeplearningRachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH 7072655110664
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I was not ok with calling balloons "flying machines" either...I wanted to call them "floating machines", but the general public wanted to call it flying and that won out. 😇 blog.dileeplearning.com/p/welcome-to...blog.dileeplearning.comWelcome to the exciting dirigibles era of AINotes for navigating large language models and beyond... 182
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 14/03/2025It was fun to visit Weinan's lab @sunw37.bsky.social at Cornell to give this talk. Exciting to see the experiments he's cooking up, and we had lots of fun discussions about PFC, hippocampus, consciousness and meditation! Part of the talk content is here: blog.dileeplearning.com/p/space-is-a... 2182
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 09/03/2025wow...a post like this on LW? What's happening? 5182
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 07/03/2025After reading this paper I feel like the rat in Ratatouille 😇 030
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 07/03/2025If there is a possibility that none of the critiques you make about theories of cognitive maps apply to our work , which is a contemporary theory of cognitive maps, then isn't that even more reason for you to engage with it? Is it that you aware of our work and found it irrelevant? 000
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Since I do have a cognitive map theory, I read this paper with interest...but I don' get what the point is. Was the cognitive map idea vague initially ...yes. Has it become more concrete recently? Yes. Does it have a homunculus problem? Not really. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/science.orgSpace is a latent sequence: A theory of the hippocampusMental representations of space emerge from sequence learning on egocentric sensory inputs. 4303
Reposted by Dileep George @dileeplearningnspruston.bsky.social @nspruston.bsky.social · 13/02/2025I’m excited about this collaborative project by @sunw37.bsky.social, @johanwinn.bsky.social, and many other talented contributors. Read about how our @hhmijanelia.bsky.social team imaged thousands of neurons in mouse hippocampus as mice learned cognitive tasks over several days: hhmi.news/4hXIp7rhhmi.newsMapmaking in the mind: new research details how the brain builds mental maps of the worldTo see how cognitive maps form in the brain, researchers used a Janelia-designed, high-resolution microscope with a large field of view to image neural activity in thousands of neurons in the 03913
Dileep George @dileeplearning @dileeplearning.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Must-read for anyone interested in cognitive maps & the hippocampus. 2196