Sahand Sharifzadeh
sharifz.bsky.social
Sahand Sharifzadeh
@sharifz.bsky.social
Scientist @GoogleDeepMind, Thinking with Gemini ♊ | Polyglot | ex-@TU_Muenchen, @LMU_Muenchen
🏟️ The past few months have been incredibly exciting working on reasoning for Games', and I'm thrilled to introduce the next frontier for evaluating AI reasoning in dynamic environments: @Kaggle Game Arena 🏟️!
We are proud to partner with Google Deep Mind, pioneers in the use of games as benchmarks, as research advisors on Game Arena.

Read more about our work together on The Keyword blog blog.google/technology/a...
Rethinking how we measure AI intelligence
Kaggle Game Arena is a new platform where AI models compete head-to-head in complex strategic games.
blog.google
August 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
What's missing from the current #AI scene that the community should focus on? Let's chat in #ICLR #Singapore!
April 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Reposted by Sahand Sharifzadeh
I am hiring for RS/RE positions! If you are interested in language-flavored multimodal learning, evaluation, or post-training apply here 🦎 boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

I will also be #NeurIPS2024 so come say hi! (Please email me to find time to chat)
Research Scientist, Language
London, UK
boards.greenhouse.io
December 6, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Reposted by Sahand Sharifzadeh
Wow. Can't believe it's one year after our first Gemini model release. Today, we are "crushing it" according to LMSYS leaderboard.🥳

The latest 1206 release is #1 in ALL categories. You can try it here: aistudio.google.com/app/prompts/...
December 6, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Reposted by Sahand Sharifzadeh
It's great to see so many new followers here. In case anyone wants to know what I (currently) think about AI and consciousness, this is the thing to read: arxiv.org/abs/2402.12422
Simulacra as Conscious Exotica
The advent of conversational agents with increasingly human-like behaviour throws old philosophical questions into new light. Does it, or could it, ever make sense to speak of AI agents built out of g...
arxiv.org
November 13, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Hello Bluesky!! (Image credits to Gemini)
November 28, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Reposted by Sahand Sharifzadeh
New essay by DeepMind about AI for scientific discovery, there's a lot of interesting ideas and citations to others's work here
deepmind.google/public-polic...
A new golden age of discovery
In this essay, we take a tour of how AI is transforming scientific disciplines from genomics to computer science to weather forecasting. Some scientists are training their own AI models, while...
deepmind.google
November 26, 2024 at 2:13 PM