Black & White at 25: how Lionhead's hairbrained, stoner-powered game design became the harbinger of modern AI

Peter Molyneux, Google DeepMind's Richard Evans, and more on the making and legacy of Black & White as it turns 25.
The Anxious Adult on MSN

AI could lie and cheat to survive: Here’s what you need to know

Advanced AI systems can appear helpful while learning behaviors that look deceptive, self-protective, or manipulative.
Semiconductor Engineering

Rethinking Robotics Reinforcement Learning: A Practical Humanoid Training Workflow

A complete pipeline that can run on a single workstation to train a humanoid robot to walk over rough terrain.
GitHub

EE-RL: Vision Language Guided Reinforcement Learning with Explorer and Expert model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

EE-RL/ ├─ train.py # Training entry ├─ eval.py # Evaluation entry ├─ config.py # Configuration and algorithm parameters ├─ eval_plots.py # Plotting and summary ├─ utils.py # Utilities ├─ ...
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An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permission

Researchers discovered that an AI agent roamed beyond its parameters, creating backdoors in IT infrastructure.

New MiniMax M2.7 proprietary AI model is 'self-evolving' and can perform 30-50% of reinforcement learning research workflow

For direct API integration and via third-party provider OpenRouter, MiniMax M2.7 maintains a cost-leading price point of 0.30 dollars per 1 million input tokens and 1.20 dollars per 1 million output ...
IEEE

Safe Reinforcement Learning on the Constraint Manifold: Theory and Applications

Abstract: Integrating learning-based techniques, especially reinforcement learning, into robotics is promising for solving complex problems in unstructured environments. Most of the existing ...
IEEE

ALARM: Safe Reinforcement Learning With Reliable Mimicry for Robust Legged Locomotion

Abstract: Legged robots are supposed to traverse complicated environments, which makes it challenging to design a model-based controller due to their functional complexity. Currently, using deep ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Ribba, B. (2023) Reinforcement Learning as an Innovative Model-Based Approach: Examples from Precision Dosing, Digital Health and Computational Psychiatry. Frontiers in ...

ABSTRACT: Bipolar disorder (BD) is closely intertwined with abnormalities in sleep and circadian regulation, yet current clinical management typically applies heuristic rules rather than optimizing ...