Artificially intelligent Maxwell’s demon for optimal control of open…
A team of researchers used reinforcement learning (RL) to optimize feedback control strategies in quantum systems.
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Collective Intelligence Manifests in Unconventional Systems | Dr. Michael Levin
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Open-Ended AI: The Key to Superhuman Intelligence?
Prof. Tim Rocktäschel, AI researcher at UCL and Google DeepMind, talks about open-ended AI systems. These systems aim to keep learning and improving on their own, like evolution does in nature.
TOC:
00:00:00 Introduction to Open-Ended AI and Key Concepts.
00:01:37 Tim Rocktäschel’s Background and Research Focus.
00:06:25 Defining Open-Endedness in AI Systems.
00:10:39 Subjective Nature of Interestingness and Learnability.
00:16:22 Open-Endedness in Practice: Examples and Limitations.
00:17:50 Assessing Novelty in Open-ended AI Systems.
00:20:05 Adversarial Attacks and AI Robustness.
00:24:05 Rainbow Teaming and LLM Safety.
00:25:48 Open-ended Research Approaches in AI
00:29:05 Balancing Long-term Vision and Exploration in AI Research.
00:37:25 LLMs in Program Synthesis and Open-Ended Learning.
00:37:55 Transition from Human-Based to Novel AI Strategies.
00:39:00 Expanding Context Windows and Prompt Evolution.
00:40:17 AI Intelligibility and Human-AI Interfaces.
00:46:04 Self-Improvement and Evolution in AI Systems.
Show notes (New!) https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5avpsy…
REFS:
00:01:47 — UCL DARK Lab (Rocktäschel) — AI research lab focusing on RL and open-ended learning — https://ucldark.com/
00:02:31 — GENIE (Bruce) — Generative interactive environment from unlabelled videos — https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.
00:02:42 — Promptbreeder (Fernando) — Self-referential LLM prompt evolution — https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.
Carbon Fiber Structural Battery Paves way for Light, Energy-Efficient Vehicles
When cars, planes, ships or computers are built from a material that functions as both a battery and a load-bearing structure, the weight and energy consumption are radically reduced. A research group at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden is now presenting a world-leading advance in so-called massless energy storage — a structural battery that could halve the weight of a laptop, make the mobile phone as thin as a credit card or increase the driving range of an electric car by up to 70% on a single charge.
“We have succeeded in creating a battery made of carbon fiber composite that is as stiff as aluminum and energy-dense enough to be used commercially. Just like a human skeleton, the battery has several functions at the same time,” says Chalmers researcher Richa Chaudhary, who is the first author of an article recently published in Advanced Materials.
Research on structural batteries has been going on for many years at Chalmers, and in some stages also together with researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. When Professor Leif Asp and colleagues published their first results in 2018 on how stiff, strong carbon fibers could store electrical energy chemically, the advance attracted massive attention.
Axolotls seem to pause their biological clocks and stop ageing
In most vertebrates, a pattern of chemical marks on the genome is a reliable indicator of age, but in axolotls this clock seems to stop after the first four years of life.
