Links for 2023-06-04
STEVE-1: A Generative Model for Text-to-Behavior in Minecraft
Meet STEVE-1, an instructable generative model for Minecraft. STEVE-1 follows both text and visual instructions and acts on raw pixel inputs with keyboard and mouse controls. Best of all - it only cost $60 to train!
STEVE-1 surprisingly also works with visual prompts taken from real life videos.
Project page: https://sites.google.com/view/steve-1
Here's an amazing collection of examples of AI doing weird / unexpected things: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOaC3HsCf5Tuum8bRfzYUiKLRqJmbOoC-32JorNdfyTiRRsR7Ea5eWtvsWzuxo8bjOxCG84dAg/pubhtml
UC Berkeley’s AlphaGarden cares for plants better than a professional human https://spectrum.ieee.org/robot-gardener
AI Agents Can Learn to Think While Acting https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00323
Break-A-Scene: Extracting Multiple Concepts from a Single Image https://omriavrahami.com/break-a-scene/
SwiftSage: A Generative Agent with Fast and Slow Thinking for Complex Interactive Tasks https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17390
CREATOR: Disentangling Abstract and Concrete Reasonings of Large Language Models through Tool Creation https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14318
A finetuned LLaMA-based model that surpasses the performance of GPT-4 on writing API calls. https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/
Large Language Models as Tool Makers https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17126
Much smaller models can beat larger teacher LLMs' at Counterfactual Planning https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.19472
Small LLMs (Llama derivatives) are still no match for truly "L"LMs: Many open-source LLMs fine-tuned on ChatGPT (Alpaca, Self-Instruct, Vicuna) are in fact simply mimicking the output without any of its capabilities. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15717
An Archaeological Dig Through The Extropian Archives: "Prominent members such as Nick Bostrom, Robin Hanson, and Eliezer Yudkowsky formulated the central ideas that they would pull through their entire career on the Extropian forum in the late 90s." https://www.maximumprogress.org/extropia-archaeology
“Around 30 companies in Ukraine are already mass-producing these drones, and our goal is to purchase up to 200,000 by the end of the year…With a 20 kilogram [warhead], we can go all the way to Moscow…” https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/03/europe/ukraine-secretive-drone-program-russia-war-intl
For several decades the proportion of U.S. news media headlines conveying pessimism has been growing or stable but never decreasing. This trend predates social media. (Sample size: 1.7 million headlines from popular news media outlets in the U.S.)