Links for 2023-05-27
Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models
The first LLM-powered embodied lifelong learning agent in Minecraft that continuously explores the world, acquires diverse skills, and makes novel discoveries without human intervention.
Empirically, Voyager shows strong in-context lifelong learning capability and exhibits exceptional proficiency in playing Minecraft. It obtains 3.3x more unique items, travels 2.3x longer distances, and unlocks key tech tree milestones up to 15.3x faster than prior SOTA.
Voyager is able to utilize the learned skill library in a new Minecraft world to solve novel tasks from scratch, while other techniques struggle to generalize.
“Trained model” is a codebase of skills that Voyager iteratively composes, rather than matrices of floats. We are pushing no-gradient architecture to its limit.
Voyager serves as a starting point to develop powerful generalist agents without tuning the model parameters.
Project page: https://voyager.minedojo.org/
Thread: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1662115266933972993
The market is upping its evaluation of AI econ impact: “Nvidia Shares Jump as Chip Maker Approaches $1 Trillion Valuation” [Financial Times] https://archive.is/XLOKN
An innovative open-source conversational LLM engineered specifically for healthcare https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12031
Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13375
Large Language Models are Few-Shot Health Learners https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15525
Dr. GPT Will See You Now. How will AI change medicine? https://www.city-journal.org/article/how-will-ai-change-medicine
“These new results follow a recent trend of places where neuroscience results are starting to have parallels with results found in neural networks!” https://twitter.com/ch402/status/1659284365380313088
CodeCompose: A Large-Scale Industrial Deployment of AI-assisted Code Authoring https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12050
“We introduce a method that combines a Transformer mutation model with Monte-Carlo Tree Search.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11223
Recent advances in Hopfield networks of associative memory may be the guiding theoretical principle for designing novel large scale neural architectures. https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-023-00595-y
Take Your Ultrawide Monitors Everywhere With an AR Laptop [Wired] https://archive.is/sOByP
Novel 3D printing method a ‘game changer’ for discovery, manufacturing of new materials https://news.nd.edu/news/novel-3d-printing-method-a-game-changer-for-discovery-manufacturing-of-new-materials/
Team uses 3D printing to strengthen a key material in aerospace, energy-generation applications https://news.mit.edu/2023/team-uses-3d-printing-strengthen-material-key-applications-aerospace-energy-generation-0519
Self-driving laboratories to autonomously navigate the protein fitness landscape https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.20.541582v1
The man who discovered the first 70 of the 100 known exoplanets (planets that orbit stars other than the sun) has not only been 'cancelled,' his name is now being scrubbed from papers & his colleagues are being targeted for cancellation as well. https://quillette.com/2023/05/25/campus-puritans/
Russia’s 'invincible' hypersonic missiles prove anything but, as Ukraine utilizes U.S. Patriot defenses https://news.yahoo.com/russias-invincible-hypersonic-missiles-prove-anything-but-as-ukraine-utilizes-us-patriot-defenses-213955937.html
“The amount of artillery they (Russians) brought into Ukraine is about 3 to 5 times the number of pieces the US Army has total. What do they have to show for it? Well, they have a lot of retreats, they have a lot of lost or captured artillery pieces...they've spent between 7 and 14 million rounds...indiscriminately” https://mwi.usma.edu/artillery-in-the-urban-battles-of-ukraine/
How often fascism was mentioned in Pravda
Source: https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1661526846201032706