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building @thenetworkstate
Everybody talks about recursive self-improvement & Gödel Machines now & how this will lead to AGI. What a change from 15 years ago! We had AGI'2010 in Lugano & chaired AGI'2011 at Google. The backbone of the AGI conferences was mathematically optimal Universal AI: the 2003 Gödel…
all it takes is one mystic-led lab to make a scientific breakthrough and then everyone will be scrambling to court a good mystic
Best slide of the year from @psychosort talk today at Network School
Had a really fun panel discussion with @jeffclune and other heroic minds at the World Models workshop at #ICLR2025
I'm giving a talk at 11:30 today in the #ICLR World Models workshop. "Open-ended Agent Learning in the Era of Foundation Models and Foundation World Models." Drop by if you are interested! sites.google.com/view/worldmode…
Tim’s @_rockt keynote at ICLR showcased @WecoAI, a small startup in London that is playing in the grand game of AI-driven innovation together with @OpenAI @GoogleDeepMind and @SakanaAILabs!
Tim Rocktäschel’s keynote talk at #ICLR2025 about Open-Endedness and AI. “Almost no prerequisite to any major invention was invented with that invention in mind.” “Basically almost everybody in my lab at UCL and at DeepMind have read this book: Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned.”
Update on the state of ML/AI research in 2025 for those who think AI has become commodity. >10,000 in attendance, not an LLM wrapper in sight. #ICLR2025
Very excited for this keynote by @_rockt! Awesome to see open-endedness go from a niche (😉) area to a keynote at #ICLR ! 🌱🌿🌳🌲🍀🌍✨ 📈 🧬🧪 cc @joelbot3000 @kenneth0stanley
We should host more top ML conferences (ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS) in Asia
510 million white dots. Each dot is a root of: 𝑥¹⁷ + (- 20i t₂⁷ + 20i t₂⁶ - 20i t₂⁵ + 20t₂⁴ - 20t₂³ + 20t₂² + 20t₂ - 20i)𝑥¹⁰ - 50𝑥⁷ + (20i t₁⁷ + 20i t₁⁶ - 20i t₁⁵ + 20i t₁⁴ - 20i t₁³ + 20t₁² - 20i t₁ + 20i)𝑥³ + 5i t₁,t₂ ∈ ℂ, |t₁|=|t₂|=1
Rich's slogans for AI research (revised 2006): 1. Approximate the solution, not the problem (no special cases) 2. Drive from the problem 3. Take the agent’s point of view 4. Don’t ask the agent to achieve what it can’t measure 5. Don't ask the agent to know what it can't verify…
Anyone. Anywhere. $100k in funding. Global meritocracy is finally here.
“content” is such a viscerally impotent word because it’s never the actual thing anyone wants
it was theorized 45 years ago, "the telescope looks at the infinitely great, the microscope looks at the infinitely small, and the macroscope looks at the infinitely complex" @sunriseoath
we're already getting the first views of what our collective mind looks like under a nooscope! @exgenesis @nomic_ai @emergentvibe , each "clump" here is an attractor in idea space, naturally forming structures in the space between our minds