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Jane Wang

@janexwang.bsky.social
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Staff research scientist at Google DeepMind. AI and neuro. Former physicist, current human. Find more at www.janexwang.com

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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This is a great high-level explainer from TwoMinutePapers of our new SIMA 2 work! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZFH...
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DeepMind’s New Game AI Just Made History
YouTube video by Two Minute Papers
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Can't tell you how great it is to finally be able to release and talk about this work, SIMA 2, the next step toward embodied intelligence in rich, interactive 3D worlds! deepmind.google/sima
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SIMA 2: A Gemini-Powered AI Agent for 3D Virtual Worlds
Introducing SIMA 2, the next milestone in our research creating general and helpful AI agents. By integrating the advanced capabilities of our Gemini models, SIMA is evolving from an instruction-foll…
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Nice tweet thread from @dannypsawyer on work exploring how well frontier models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini explore in interactive, multi-turn settings - to be presented at NeurIPS workshops this December!
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
There's also nothing in the way we train AI that would ever allow it to optimize for "survival above all else", so unless we start training them in a completely new way, I'm not worried
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Thanks for explaining, but I'm not convinced that power dynamics favor intelligence. There's already a range of intelligence among people, and people already self-improve (learn), but I'd say there's only a loose correlation between intelligence and power among humans
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I put social media into the same category as smoking and lead paint. Some time decades from now, we'll be shocked we allowed ourselves and our kids to be so freely exposed to such a toxic substance
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
A "wasteland of fake nonsense" describes my X feed to a T 😭 I can't even open it anymore it's horrible
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
My main point is about comparison with social media. How emotionally attached would you say people are today to tiktok, Instagram, Facebook, etc? A small percentage of people can get attached to anything, but only social media was expressly designed to get you addicted to mindlessly scrolling
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Social media is optimised for engagement. Chatbots are optimised to be useful. That makes all the difference
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
We are far from understanding just how much social media has damaged us. While people are getting whole PhDs on AI safety
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Mark Zuckerberg was fine with allowing his platform to be used to push misinformation and affect elections around the world
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Yes bad actors can start deploying AI to unleash deepfakes, or put a bunch of spam on the internet, but bots already existed, and so did Photoshop. The very fabric of public discourse has already been shredded by social media companies, for the sake of clicks and likes.
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
It'll come with the risks that any major new technological innovation will involve, but nothing like the "extinction-level" threat I keep hearing about. I have no idea where these people are coming from. If someone wants to explain, I'm happy to listen!
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
AGI will be created with the world's attention on it, and very thoughtful people that I work with every day are thinking about ways to make it beneficial for everyone
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
One major reason I believe this: when the likes of Facebook and Twitter were being set up, NO ONE was concerned about safety, ethics, or regulation of these companies, until it was far too late, and the damage was done (and is still being done)
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This might be a hot take, but I think social media has done much more damage to humanity than AGI has the potential to do. At this point, I think AGI will likely be a net positive by ameliorating some of the catastrophic effects of social media.
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 05/08/2025
Genie 3: A general world model Google announced Genie 3, a world model that can generate 3D scenes in real-time, meaning that it can be used to create 3D experiences that you can immediately use. Like a dynamic video game limited by your own imagination deepmind.google/discover/blo...
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Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models
Today we are announcing Genie 3, a general purpose world model that can generate an unprecedented diversity of interactive environments. Given a text prompt, Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds...
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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
NeurIPS is endorsing EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present NeurIPS work in Europe concurrently with NeurIPS. Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website: blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n... eurips.cc
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A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Key-value memory is an important concept in modern machine learning (e.g., transformers). Ila Fiete, Kazuki Irie, and I have written a paper showing how key-value memory provides a way of thinking about memory organization in the brain: arxiv.org/abs/2501.02950
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Key-value memory in the brain
Classical models of memory in psychology and neuroscience rely on similarity-based retrieval of stored patterns, where similarity is a function of retrieval cues and the stored patterns. While parsimo...
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kyunghyuncho.bsky.social @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
bye, felix kyunghyuncho.me/bye-felix/
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Bye, Felix – Kyunghyun Cho
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Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Felix Hill was such an incredible mentor — and occasional cold water swimming partner — to me. He's a huge part of why I joined DeepMind and how I've come to approach research. Even a month later, it's still hard to believe he's gone.
Felix Hill and some other DMers and I after cold water swimming at Parliament Hill Lido a few years ago
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
A brilliant colleague and wonderful soul Felix Hill recently passed away. This was a shock and in an effort to sort some things out, I wrote them down. Maybe this will help someone else, but at the very least it helped me. Rest in peace, Felix, you will be missed. www.janexwang.com/blog/2025/1/...
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Felix — Jane X. Wang
From the moment I heard him give a talk, I knew I wanted to work with Felix . His ideas about generalization and situatedness made explicit thoughts that had been swirling around in my head, incohe...
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas Bluesky! 💙
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Looking forward to speaking at the CALM workshop today at 930! I'll be talking about causal reasoning in foundation agents #neurips2024 calm-workshop-2024.github.io
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First Workshop on Causality and Large Models (C♥️LM) @ NeurIPS 2024
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
(From Feb. 10, 2021): Introducing a benchmark task for meta-reinforcement learning: Alchemy! Train agents or play it yourself, this environment comes with interesting latent structure that encourages experimentation and structure learning. github.com/google-deepm... neurips.cc/virtual/2021...
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Jack Parker-Holder @jparkerholder.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Introducing 🧞Genie 2 🧞 - our most capable large-scale foundation world model, which can generate a diverse array of consistent worlds, playable for up to a minute. We believe Genie 2 could unlock the next wave of capabilities for embodied agents 🧠.
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
When will Bluesky get a "trending" feature? I always enjoyed looking at what an entire country was thinking about at any given moment 😄
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I'm so tired of living in Trump's fevered dream
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Applications are open for student researcher positions at Google DeepMind for 2025! Due date Dec 13 www.google.com/about/career...
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Student Researcher, 2025 — Google Careers
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Hi Ida! I haven't heard of blue ark, what's that?
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The speed of growth on this platform is insane! Really feels like it's hit a critical point. At what point can we just consider it a clone of Twitter?
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Let's just bring back tweets, why not?
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Great list!
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Why is this interesting? I think it's the first (small) step in moving from foundation models to foundation agents, and learning ways to instill more of a sense of embodied agency along with the incredibly emergent priors that already exist within foundation models.
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Now that I've moved over here, I'll start by introducing some of my major pieces of research, starting with the most recent, SIMA: A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments Blog: deepmind.google/discover/blo... Tech report: arxiv.org/abs/2404.10179
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A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
Introducing SIMA, a Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent
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Simon Schug @smonsays.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
To help find people at the intersection of neuroscience and AI. Of course let me know if I missed someone or you’d like to be added 🧪 🧠 #neuroskyence go.bsky.app/CAfmKQs
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
If you're an RL researcher or RL adjacent, pipe up to make sure I've added you here! go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
One of strongest takeaways I have from this election: people have no idea what tariffs are
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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
But how will I know who to follow without blue checks to let me know who's paying $8/month? 🤔
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