Checkout the dream London roads made by my good friends at Wayve! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SgW_D7SdjZc

#AI #selfdriving #autonomousdriving #generativeAI #AGI #WorldModels #Transformers

BYOL-Explore getting the apple! https://www.deepmind.com/publications/byol-explore-exploration-by-bootstrapped-prediction w/ Zhaohan Daniel Guo, Shantanu Thakoor, Miruna Pislar, Corentin Tallec, Florent Altché, Bernardo Avila Pires, Robin (Yunhao) Tang, Alaa Saade, Jean-Bastien Grill, Mohammad Gheshlaghi Azar, Bilal Piot, Remi Munos, Daniele Calandriello #neurips2022 #worldmodels #reinforcementlearning #ai

However, as soon as you start thinking about #language as communication between #intelligent #agents, you have to start thinking about how language is connected with #worldmodels

Lawrence Barsalou wrote about this phenomenon in 1999 while critiquing #language #research in #psychology. He argued that #language evolved in humans for co-coordinating collaborative actions in human teams. But, #psycholinguistics approached language as if its primary function was archival.

https://web.archive.org/web/20031206190916id_/http://userwww.service.emory.edu:80/~barsalou/Papers/Disc_Proc_Files/disc_proc_98.pdf

#Introduction time.

TL;dr: maths to formally study #agents, #worldmodels and #representations

I'm currently a Chief Researcher at Araya, a Tokyo based startup with the goal to understand (artificial) #consciousness.

My work focuses on general principles for the #origins of #agency, #life and #cognition. I previously used the #freeenergyprinciple (+ #activeinference) as my main framework, but I'm now looking into other directions, mostly using #categorytheory applied to #systemstheory.