Andrey Kurenkov

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Former CS PhD focused on learning robot manipulation at the Stanford AI lab, current ML Engineer at a gen AI startup

Co-founder of Skynet Today and The Gradient 📝 fan of fun, Russian, he/him

Websiteandreykurenkov.com
Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mmiHOS4AAAAJ&hl=en
YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/c/AndreyKurenkov

Hello Sigmoid Social users!

Wow, Sigmoid Social has been around for over 2.5 years now, how time flies...

Just want mention we are very much still around as administrators and moderators of this Mastodon instance behind the scenes.

We appear to have reached a steady-state of a decent number of users, and we love that some of you still benefit from this instance.

Please do message or email us if you want to suggest improvements or changes!

 

Lately, if there is one paper I hope more people take note of, it's "Levels of AGI: Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI" from DeepMind. Would make discussions about AGI would a lot more productive if it was done with these sorts of definitions.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02462
Levels of AGI for Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI

We propose a framework for classifying the capabilities and behavior of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) models and their precursors. This framework introduces levels of AGI performance, generality, and autonomy, providing a common language to compare models, assess risks, and measure progress along the path to AGI. To develop our framework, we analyze existing definitions of AGI, and distill six principles that a useful ontology for AGI should satisfy. With these principles in mind, we propose "Levels of AGI" based on depth (performance) and breadth (generality) of capabilities, and reflect on how current systems fit into this ontology. We discuss the challenging requirements for future benchmarks that quantify the behavior and capabilities of AGI models against these levels. Finally, we discuss how these levels of AGI interact with deployment considerations such as autonomy and risk, and emphasize the importance of carefully selecting Human-AI Interaction paradigms for responsible and safe deployment of highly capable AI systems.

arXiv.org
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New blog post up, and it’s the one you’ve been waiting for! OpenAI introduced function calling last June, but what’s *really* the big feature is ChatGPT’s ability to output structured data in, even complex nested schema!

And with that, you can do *a lot*. https://minimaxir.com/2023/12/chatgpt-structured-data/

Pushing ChatGPT's Structured Data Support To Its Limits

“Function calling” with ChatGPT is ChatGPT’s best feature since ChatGPT.

Ice sculpture of a black bear, god rays, bloom, 4k resolution, uhd, made of ice

#StableDiffusion #AIArt #AIGenerated #AI #GenerativeAI #GenerativeArt

On this day 1917 Sergeant Ricky Shields lost control of his class II Harvester Behemoth

This accident resulted in the eradication of an entire battalion, causing the closure of research into experimental bioengineering weapons for a very long time

FYI: we currently have no plans to in any way limit interaction with Threads on this instance. Some major AI voices (eg Karpathy, LeCun) are active on there, so we believe this in the best interest of the community. However, if Sigmoid Social users urge us to act otherwise, we'd be happy to put it to a vote.

(context: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000120/threads-meta-activitypub-test-mastodon )

Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

Mark Zuckerberg said Threads is testing ActivityPub support that will make its posts available on Mastodon and other interoperable services.

The Verge

Japanese-style painting of a gas giant planet, steampunk, trending on artstation, god rays, bloom

#StableDiffusion #AIArt #AIGenerated #AI #GenerativeAI #GenerativeArt

My wife is looking forward to deleting her Instagram account once she can connect with the same folks from her Mastodon account. Being able to remain in touch with over 100M people who still use Meta products out of the comfort of an ad-free, privacy-friendly platform like Mastodon is a game changer.
#AI is taking over the world. Wait. What?! The hype is taking over, not AI. I wrote an article about what comes next, after "AI". It is called meta-learning and it is already happening https://penkovsky.com/neural-networks/meta-learning/
Meta-Learning | Bogdan Penkovsky, PhD

Breaking news! Artificial intelligence is taking over the world. Or it is not? Here is what you need to know about a deeper concept of meta-learning. Meta-learning is learning about learning. Learning how to learn belongs here too.

Bogdan Penkovsky, PhD