How ‘jagged intelligence’ can reframe the AI debate

The strange way that AI looks like a genius at one moment and dense in another is what researchers, engineers and economists ...

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

One company, AfterQuery, sells a series of off-the-shelf “worlds” to AI labs, with names such as “Big Tech World”, “Finance ...
IEEE

A Survey of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Control in Multi-AUV Systems

Abstract: The increasing demand for adaptive and autonomous smart ocean systems has accelerated the deployment of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) in various complex underwater missions, ...

Black & White at 25: how Lionhead's harebrained, stoner-powered game design became the harbinger of modern AI

Peter Molyneux, Google DeepMind's Richard Evans, and more on the making and legacy of Black & White as it turns 25.
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‘Reinforcement Learning Gym’ Startup, Buoyed by Labs’ Appetite For Training Data, Reaches $750 Million Valuation

AI developers are getting more creative in how they acquire data to train AI models. For instance, they’re paying startups to develop copies of popular apps, like Salesforce or Excel, to teach models ...
Futurism

Sam Altman’s Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and the public face of ChatGPT, has carved out an image for himself as one of the preeminent AI whisperers of our age, whose influence supposedly extends to the White House on ...
techxplore

New memristor design uses built-in oxygen gradient to bring stability to reinforcement learning

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers created a memristor that uses a built-in oxygen gradient to produce slow, stable conductance changes, enabling a reinforcement ...
IEEE

Dual-Centralized Q-Network-Based Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Path Planning of Multiple UAVs

Abstract: Due to the low cost and high maneuverability, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been commonly used and played an important role in both the civilian and military fields. Although UAVs can ...