Chris Offner
@chrisoffner3d.bsky.social
Student Researcher @ RAI Institute, MSc CS Student @ ETH Zurich
visual computing, 3D vision, spatial AI, machine learning, robot perception.
📍Zurich, Switzerland
visual computing, 3D vision, spatial AI, machine learning, robot perception.
📍Zurich, Switzerland
Great video on the convergent evolution from hierarchical military command structures to cybernetics to centralized AI coordination across political ideologies:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mayo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mayo...
August 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Great video on the convergent evolution from hierarchical military command structures to cybernetics to centralized AI coordination across political ideologies:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mayo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mayo...
"It is beautiful. It is elegant. Does it work well in practice? Not really. This is often the caveat we face in research: the things that are beautiful don't work and the things that work are not beautiful." – Daniel Cremers
August 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"It is beautiful. It is elegant. Does it work well in practice? Not really. This is often the caveat we face in research: the things that are beautiful don't work and the things that work are not beautiful." – Daniel Cremers
"As roboticists and computer vision people [outside of big tech], do we have to just wait for the next foundation model?"
I share the frustration. It's disempowering when most major progress recently is downstream of "foundation models" that you don't have the compute or data to train yourself.
I share the frustration. It's disempowering when most major progress recently is downstream of "foundation models" that you don't have the compute or data to train yourself.
August 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"As roboticists and computer vision people [outside of big tech], do we have to just wait for the next foundation model?"
I share the frustration. It's disempowering when most major progress recently is downstream of "foundation models" that you don't have the compute or data to train yourself.
I share the frustration. It's disempowering when most major progress recently is downstream of "foundation models" that you don't have the compute or data to train yourself.
My X feed's reaction to Dario Amodei's recent interviews.
May 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
My X feed's reaction to Dario Amodei's recent interviews.
Repeating "Create the exact replica of this image, don't change a thing" 101 times
(from www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...)
(from www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...)
May 1, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Repeating "Create the exact replica of this image, don't change a thing" 101 times
(from www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...)
(from www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...)
“Another, this time asking for the image 5 seconds into the future” (from x.com/indian_brons...)
April 29, 2025 at 4:28 AM
“Another, this time asking for the image 5 seconds into the future” (from x.com/indian_brons...)
“GPT-image feedback loop, asking the machine to replicate the image without changing anything.” (from x.com/indian_brons...)
April 29, 2025 at 4:28 AM
“GPT-image feedback loop, asking the machine to replicate the image without changing anything.” (from x.com/indian_brons...)
April 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Former F.B.I. special agent and current assistant dean of Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, Asha Rangappa, explains how fucked things are.
April 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Former F.B.I. special agent and current assistant dean of Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, Asha Rangappa, explains how fucked things are.