yojuna.bsky.social
@yojuna.bsky.social
21st century schizoid man
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What is fascinating about China's approach to robotics is how diverse it is. Lots of local organizations and parties putting up their own research centers like this one: www.globaltimes.cn/page/202504/...

Whereas in the US, things seem much more concentrated
April 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Introducing ASAL: Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models

Blog: sakana.ai/asal/

We propose a new method called Automated Search for Artificial Life (ASAL) which uses foundation models to automate the discovery of the most interesting and open-ended artificial lifeforms!
December 24, 2024 at 2:58 AM
arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547

Surreal how this work has become even more pertinent now in 2025. Still criminally underrated in the mainstream ai community
On the Measure of Intelligence
To make deliberate progress towards more intelligent and more human-like artificial systems, we need to be following an appropriate feedback signal: we need to be able to define and evaluate intellige...
arxiv.org
January 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Let's go 🌪️🚀
With more users expected to leave Meta in the coming months, someone needs to start building an Instagram clone based on the AT protocol ASAP.
January 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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A look at the future: chatting with my robot via Discord to ask it to find something in my house.

This uses an LLM to understand what the human wants and generate a task plan, then builds an open-vocab 3d scene representation to find and pick up objects
December 31, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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There has been a definite shift in recent weeks where insiders in the various AI labs are suggesting that very intelligent AIs are coming very soon.

I wrote a bit about why this might be happening and what we can take away from their apparent confidence. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/prophecies...
Prophecies of the Flood
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
www.oneusefulthing.org
January 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This is the promise of bluesky ✊ On x, I felt it too, the recent right wing conservative push is quite evident actually. Kind of obvious tho given the political climate. But this is also why we need auditable algorithmic feeds more than ever now.
Quit social media that won't tell you their algorithm (so that we can build better systems). A new blog post: www.eugenevinitsky.com/posts/audita...
Eugene Vinitsky
www.eugenevinitsky.com
January 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM