Cong Lu
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Research Scientist @ Google DeepMind, in open-ended learning, and AI for Scientific Discovery.
🚀Introducing “StochasTok: Improving Fine-Grained Subword Understanding in LLMs”!🚀 LLMs are incredible but still struggle disproportionately with subword tasks, e.g., for character counts, wordplay, multi-digit numbers, fixing typos… Enter StochasTok, led by Anya Sims! [1/]
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Jeff Clune
8 months ago
It was an honor to be on Quirks and Quarks (the CBC science show) with
@cong-ml.bsky.social
talking about The AI Scientist and the impact of AI on science. Science is being transformed by the AI revolution
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https://cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-51-quirks-and-quarks/clip/16128326-science-transformed-ai-revolution
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Jeff Clune
8 months ago
Introducing Automated Capability Discovery! ACD automatically identifies surprising new capabilities and failure modes in foundation models, via "self-exploration" (models exploring their own abilities). Led by
@cong-ml.bsky.social
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@shengranhu.bsky.social
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Jeff Clune
9 months ago
It's an honor that The AI Scientist is #1 on this list!
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Congrats
@chris-lu.bsky.social
@cong-ml.bsky.social
@RobertTLange
@hardmaru.bsky.social
@jfoerst.bsky.social
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Jeff Clune
10 months ago
Lots of interest in ADAS! Thanks everyone, and congrats Shengran Hu and
@cong-ml.bsky.social
! 🚀🚀🚀
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Honored to receive this award for ADAS!!
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Aaron Dharna
10 months ago
Our in-progress work Quality-Diversity Self-Play (w/
@cong-ml.bsky.social
and
@jeffclune.com
) will have a poster presentation at
#NeurIPS2024
workshops (@IMOLNeurIPS2024 Sunday West meeting room 217 - 219 and OpenworldAgents Sunday East Meeting Room 1-3, Foyer). Please come visit us!
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Jeff Clune
10 months ago
Our work Automated Design of Agentic Systems (w/ Shengran Hu &
@cong-ml.bsky.social
) will have ✨two orals✨ @
#NeurIPS2024
workshops (LanGame Sat 10:20, OWA Sun 4:50). Please come visit us😃 We would also love to chat about open-endedness, LLM agents, etc. Come by if you want to meet!
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Interested in robust model-based offline RL algorithms? Come check out Anya Sims presenting our new paper investigating the edge of reach problem in offline MBRL! 📍East Exhibit Hall A-C #4603
#NeurIPS2024
10 months ago
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Nenad Tomasev
10 months ago
A great new essay on AI for Science from our colleagues here:
deepmind.google/public-polic...
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A new golden age of discovery
In this essay, we take a tour of how AI is transforming scientific disciplines from genomics to computer science to weather forecasting. Some scientists are training their own AI models, while...
https://deepmind.google/public-policy/ai-for-science/
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒
11 months ago
The RL (and some non-RL folks) starter pack is almost full. Pretty clear that the academic move here has succeeded
go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg
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Tim Rocktäschel
10 months ago
Now that
@jeffclune.bsky.social
and
@joelbot3000.bsky.social
are here, time for an Open-Endedness starter pack.
go.bsky.app/MdVxrtD
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