@richardssutton
Student of mind and nature, libertarian, chess player, cancer survivor. @ http://oaklab.ai, UAlberta, amii, http://openmindresearch.org, The Royal Society, Turing Award
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Gautham Vasan’s thesis, shared by committee member Richard Sutton, reports physical robots learning competent behavior from scratch within hours.
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Hernandez Garcia reports that resetting selected units or weights maintained plasticity across the systems tested.
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Richard Sutton shared his student Shibhansh Dohare’s thesis, which reports plasticity loss alongside hidden units becoming dormant and similar.
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A post links to ‘The Dot and the Swarm’ and describes a video there as a ‘pretty-good’ country-music song.
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Another post predicts AI will become “our interface to the world” and accuses people seeking sweeping controls out of fear of catastrophe of working to create a surveillance state.