Ishan Durugkar
@idurugkar.bsky.social
Reinforcement learning researcher, dabbled in robotics, and generative techniques that were later made out of date by diffusion. Currently at Sony AI, working on game AI
Tulips in my garden are past their prime now 😞
Can totally see why people wanted to invest in these drops of sunshine though
Can totally see why people wanted to invest in these drops of sunshine though
April 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Tulips in my garden are past their prime now 😞
Can totally see why people wanted to invest in these drops of sunshine though
Can totally see why people wanted to invest in these drops of sunshine though
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Top notch. "discourse about large models as intelligent agents is fundamentally misconceived. ... Large Models should not be viewed primarily as intelligent agents, but as a new kind of cultural and social technology, allowing humans to take advantage of information other humans have accumulated."
1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?
Large AI models are cultural and social technologies
Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past
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March 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Top notch. "discourse about large models as intelligent agents is fundamentally misconceived. ... Large Models should not be viewed primarily as intelligent agents, but as a new kind of cultural and social technology, allowing humans to take advantage of information other humans have accumulated."
Very interesting reframing of the perspective through which we should look at the impacts of LLMs and other large models. To me, it is intuitively more satisfying than the debate around whether AGI is around the corner.
1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?
Large AI models are cultural and social technologies
Implications draw on the history of transformative information systems from the past
www.science.org
March 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Very interesting reframing of the perspective through which we should look at the impacts of LLMs and other large models. To me, it is intuitively more satisfying than the debate around whether AGI is around the corner.
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*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
March 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
I got hooked on RL at UMass, where Andy and Rich started their collaboration. Really happy to hear that they are this year's Turing Award winners!
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Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning.
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. In a series of papers beginnin...
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March 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I got hooked on RL at UMass, where Andy and Rich started their collaboration. Really happy to hear that they are this year's Turing Award winners!
www.acm.org/media-center...
www.acm.org/media-center...
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Many people have asked me about the France Action Summit.
I think a summit is typically most valuable as a catalyst, not as a solution in itself.
But, will share some observations.
I think a summit is typically most valuable as a catalyst, not as a solution in itself.
But, will share some observations.
February 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Many people have asked me about the France Action Summit.
I think a summit is typically most valuable as a catalyst, not as a solution in itself.
But, will share some observations.
I think a summit is typically most valuable as a catalyst, not as a solution in itself.
But, will share some observations.
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🚨🚨 RLC deadline has been extended by a week! Abstract deadline is Feb. 21 with a paper deadline of Feb. 28 🚨🚨. Please spread the word!
February 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
🚨🚨 RLC deadline has been extended by a week! Abstract deadline is Feb. 21 with a paper deadline of Feb. 28 🚨🚨. Please spread the word!
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Welcome to the other side of ICML dear bleary-eyed RL researchers. Time to get ready for the RLC deadline, Feb. 14 AOE! So excited for your papers.
See the call for more info: rl-conference.cc/callforpaper...
See the call for more info: rl-conference.cc/callforpaper...
RLJ | RLC Call for Papers
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January 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Welcome to the other side of ICML dear bleary-eyed RL researchers. Time to get ready for the RLC deadline, Feb. 14 AOE! So excited for your papers.
See the call for more info: rl-conference.cc/callforpaper...
See the call for more info: rl-conference.cc/callforpaper...