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Life as it could be | Akarsh Kumar on Artificial Life

Akarsh Kumar on searching for artificial life with foundation models.

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Key points

  • Start from something as simple as Conway's Game of Life: "From this super, super simple world, you run this, you get insane amounts of complexity."
  • In his words: "Instead of hard coding a single simulation, you parameterize a space of simulations.
  • Then: "Plug it into a foundation model, and see what the foundation model thinks about what happened."
  • Full conversation with Akarsh on Machine Learning Street Talk.

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  • [1]Life as it could be | Akarsh Kumar on Artificial Life
    Machine Learning Street Talk (YouTube) · Oct 8, 11:34 AM
    Akarsh Kumar on searching for artificial life with foundation models.
    Start from something as simple as Conway's Game of Life: "From this super, super simple world, you run this, you get insane amounts of complexity."

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