Links for 2023-05-31
Ghost in the Minecraft: Generally Capable Agents for Open-World Enviroments via Large Language Models with Text-based Knowledge and Memory
Broad task coverage. All previous agents combined can only achieve 30% completion rate of all items in the Minecraft Overworld technology tree, while GITM is able to unlock 100% of them.
High success rate. GITM achieves 67.5% success rate on the "ObtainDiamond" task, improving the SOTA (OpenAI's VPT) by +47.5%.
Excellent training efficiency. OpenAI's VPT needs to be trained for 6,480 GPU days, DeepMind's DreamerV3 needs to be trained for 17 GPU days, while our GITM does not need any GPUs and can be trained in 2 days using only a single CPU node with 32 CPU cores.
Developing an automated agent that can master all technical challenges in Minecraft is akin to creating an artificial intelligence capable of autonomously learning and mastering the entire real-world technology. This research shows the potential of LLMs in developing capable agents for handling long-horizon, complex tasks and adapting to uncertainties in open-world environments.
Project page: https://github.com/OpenGVLab/GITM
A Who’s Who of the biggest names in AI - including the CEOs of DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic, the CTO of Microsoft and many more signed this letter explicitly acknowledging the risk of extinction from AGI. https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk (New York Times: https://archive.is/vT1Wf)
‘Everyone is a programmer’ with generative A.I., says Nvidia chief (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/30/everyone-is-a-programmer-with-generative-ai-nvidia-ceo-.html) as he announces a new artificial-intelligence-focused supercomputer (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-gh200/).
“A remarkable demonstration of how AI will change gaming: this new demo from NVIDIA combines a low latency text to speech engine, a new foundational LLM built for gaming, and an audio to facial expression engine to create truly lifelike NPCs.” https://twitter.com/blader/status/1663324838549700609
“Ever wonder what the rest of the Mona Lisa looks like? Got @Adobe Firefly to help fill out the background for me with the power of AI” https://twitter.com/heykody/status/1662168390352666624
BiomedGPT: A Unified and Generalist Biomedical Generative Pre-trained Transformer for Vision, Language, and Multimodal Tasks — “Overall, our work presents a significant step forward in developing unified and generalist models for biomedicine, with far-reaching implications for improving healthcare outcomes.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17100
Quantum sensors will start a revolution — if we deploy them right [Nature] https://archive.is/h2zZS
Ångström-resolution fluorescence microscopy https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05925-9
“…the first work to comprehensively and systematically summarize the recent advances of Transformers for modeling time series data.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07125
OlaGPT: Empowering LLMs With Human-like Problem-Solving Abilities https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16334
“The bullseye framework: My case against AI doom” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qYEkvkwd4kWA8LFJK/the-bullseye-framework-my-case-against-ai-doom
Breakthrough in computer chip energy efficiency could cut data center electricity use https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/breakthrough-computer-chip-energy-efficiency-could-cut-data-center-electricity-use
King Tut's meteorite dagger: A weapon from the heavens https://exformation.williamrinehart.com/p/king-tuts-meteorite-dagger-a-weapon
The True Meaning of Equity: “Boys have posters of their favorite athletes on the wall, girls have the targets of their affections on theirs. Equity insists each personage on a wall unfairly takes the place of someone else that wants a spot, depriving us both of what we seek and what we seek to become” https://harrybergeron.substack.com/p/the-true-meaning-of-equity
Eliezer Yudkowsky explains why it is very likely that superintelligent AIs won't care about humans AT ALL: https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1663313323423825920
I *really* hope he is right. Because the worst thing that can happen is not extinction, but astronomical suffering; being kept alive for some strange reason by a god with an alien psychology.