@fredodurand

he/him. Amar Bose Professor of Computing at MIT EECS and Equity Officer. Photography, good food, wine, travel, and parenting, often at the same time.

 Boston, USA
people.csail.mit.edu/fredo/
Joined April 2009
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1/n Mora 1 is live 🚀 Play it now: mora.fun Spatial puzzles, multiplayer platforming, physics, building, and style switching - all powered by code, 3D generation, and real-time video 😆 After playing every world model demos, we decided to take a different path. Mora 1 is an early step toward giving AI-coded games AAA-grade sights and sound.
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I see @dwarkesh_sp's piece about the recent OpenAI/Huggingface incident reignited endless debates about the dangers of anthropomorphism and the legitimacy of intentional glosses of AI agent behavior, so here's a philosophical perspective on this. 1/22 xitter.cf/dwarkesh_sp/status/209…
Dwarkesh Patel
@dwarkesh_spAug 29
Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy. I’ve spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened. Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English: dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggin…

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English

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Watching the eclipse in Spain was spectacular, so I made a web app to plan for the next ones. claude.ai/.../f18b4da3-c829-…
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The whole thing took me less than a day with Claude Code.
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DesignArena
@DesignArenaJun 10
BREAKING: Reve 2.0 by @reve is now 2nd overall on Image Arena with an Elo of 1354. Reve 2.0 establishes a 34 point Elo gap above GPT-Image 1.5 by @OpenAI in 3rd place. With this release, Reve is now the top independent foundation image model lab. Congratulations to the @reve team on this accomplishment!
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Tianwei Yin
@TianweiYJun 3
1/ Our new @reve image model is now #2 on the @arena text-to-image leaderboard — behind only GPT Image 2, ahead of Nano Banana Pro, Microsoft, xAI and everyone else. And it's a 125 point jump over Reve 1.5 from just 3 months ago. The research story behind it 🧵👇
Reve
@reveJun 3
Today, we’re launching Reve 2.0, the best 4K image model in the world. We invented a new way to generate and edit any image using precise layouts. For the first time, it’s possible to create images you can touch.
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Reve
@reveJun 3
Today, we’re launching Reve 2.0, the best 4K image model in the world. We invented a new way to generate and edit any image using precise layouts. For the first time, it’s possible to create images you can touch.
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Is there a term for AI-splaining? Claude is mansplaining my papers to me and doing a questionable job.
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Andy Masley
@AndyMasleyMar 14
A few people asked me to make an image of how much irrigated farmland would use the same water required for ALL ChatGPT usage, including every part of the process. I did a botec and my best guess right now is that inference uses about as much water as training, and power generation uses ~5x as much water as the data centers themselves, so it looks something like this. The water cost of manufacturing chips is marginal compared to how much water they use over their lifetimes.
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Mirela Ben-Chen@mirelabenFeb 8
Thanks everyone reviewing for SIGGRAPH! If you get an invite to review, please accept and invest the time to do it. Others are reviewing *your* papers, and the system only works if we all pitch in. This is a classic collective action problem: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collec…

Collective action problem - Wikipedia

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Jon Barron
@jon_barron22 Oct 2025
It looks like @CVPR has implemented a new mandatory "Compute Reporting Form" that must be submitted alongside any paper submission. Though I am sympathetic to the motivations for this change, I am opposed to it for a variety of reasons:
#CVPR2026@CVPR21 Oct 2025
#AI research has an invisible cost: compute Starting with #CVPR2026, authors will report their compute usage. Aggregated data will help the community understand who can participate, what is sustainable, and how resources are used, promoting more transparent & equitable research.
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nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us/mi…

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment (Published 2025)

The Trump administration offered nine universities benefits in exchange for signing an agreement to protect conservative voices, among other things. M.I.T. was the first to refuse.

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“Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,”
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For my HCI and psych friends who are thinking about career paths in industry, there are some pretty cool opportunities in evals for GenAI right now: medium.com/@zoya.gavr/why-ev…

Why “Evals” is the hot new thing for HCI and Psych researchers to get into

A systematic and repeatable approach to evaluating generative AI models, that is quantitative, and often large-scale for the purposes…

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Is Social Media Destroying Democracy—Or Giving It To Us Good And Hard?

It’s easier to blame the algorithm than the bewildered herd.

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The importance, tractability and neglectedness framework developed for charity work is also a great perspective for choosing research problems. See e.g. Hamming's "You and your research" cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouA…
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