In the Assassin's Creed universe, Amodei would be a Templar, hands down. He seeks a perfect control he cannot have and in the quest for it will only increase the chaos he claims to fight. www.anthropic.com/news/positio...
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Research @ Sony AI
AI should learn from its experiences, not copy your data.
My website for answering RL questions: https://www.decisionsanddragons.com/
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Our position on open-weights models anthropic.com
A little bird told her: scientist wins $100,000 prize for decoding birdsong | Animal behaviour | The Guardian theguardian.com
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A Walk in the Park: Learning to Walk in 20 Minutes With Model-Free Reinforcement Learning arxiv.org
Gran Turismo Sophy™, Five Years On: From Nature Cover to Open Frontier ai.sony
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I talk about the research on when AI undermines, versus supporting, thinking and learning here: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/choosing-t...
RL guys do not only work in simulators. Simulators are a _starting point_ for many because its cheap and fast. There is plenty of work on learning real-time in the real-world from the start. For example: arxiv.org/abs/2208.07860
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Five years ago we asked: can an AI agent outrace the world's best #GranTurismo drivers? The answer became a @nature.com cover, a game feature and a research frontier that's still open. #GTSophy, five years on ↓ bit.ly/4vHyxpF
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Are policy gradient methods hopeless without other machinery? Deep learning works well when the Hessian is well conditioned. But the policy objective is under no obligation to give us that. And no amount of architecture engineering can rescue us from problems w/ the objective.
Hugging Face used open AI models to combat the OpenAI model security breach because OpenAI models are closed AI models. Makes sense, right?
In various settings I see people who will say things like "I hate AI, but I used it to do <thing> because <grand defense of why their use is okay>" Then you don't hate AI. You might hate specific things about how specific AI tech was developed and deployed. It's okay to have a nuanced position.
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