Nonlinear Computation In Linear Networks by Open Ai – Floating point arithmatic is fundamentally non-linear near the limit of machine precision. OpenAI managed to exploit these non-linear effects with an evolutionary algorithm to achieve much better performance than a normal deep normal network on MNIST.
Superintelligence Risk Project: Conclusion by Jeff Kaufman – “I’m not convinced that AI risk should be highly prioritized, but I’m also not convinced that it shouldn’t. Highly qualified researchers in a position to have a good sense the field have massively different views on core questions like how capable ML systems are now, how capable they will be soon, and how we can influence their development.” There are links to all the previous posts. The final write up goes into some detail about MIRI’s research program and an alternative safety paradigm connected to openAI.
Learning To Model Other Minds by Open Ai – “We’re releasing an algorithm which accounts for the fact that other agents are learning too, and discovers self-interested yet collaborative strategies like tit-for-tat in the iterated prisoner’s dilemma.”
Tegmarks Book Of Foom by Robin Hanson – Tegmark’s recent book basically described Yudkowsky’s intelligence explosion. Tegmark is worried the singularity might be soon and we need to have figured out big philosophical issues by then. Hanson thinks Tegmark overestimates the generality of intelligence. AI weapons and regulations.
Ideological Engineering And Social Control A by Geoffrey Miller (EA forum) – China is trying hard to develop advanced AI. A major goal is to use AI to monitor both physical space and social media. Supressing wrong-think doesn’t require radically advanced AI.
Incorrigibility In Cirl by The MIRI Blog – Paper. Goal: Incentivize a value learning system to follow shut down instructions. Demonstration that some assumptions are not stable with respect to model mis-specification (ex programmer error). Weaker sets of assumptions: difficulties and simple strategies.
More On Dota 2 by Open Ai – Timeline of the DOTA-bot’s rapid improvement. Bot Exploits. Physical Infrastructure. What needs to be done to play 5×5.
Openai Bots Were Defeated At Least 50 Times – People could play against the openAI Dota bot. Several people found strategies to beat the bot. One of the human victors explains their strategy.
Dota 2 by Open Ai – Open AI codes a 1v1 Dota-2 bot that defeaated top players. The bots actions per minute were comparable to many humans. The bot learned the game from scratch by self-play, and does not use imitation learning or tree search. The game involves hidden information and the bot’s strategies were complicated.