Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs raises $1.03B to build world models

My prediction is that ‘world models’ will be the next buzzword,” AMI Labs CEO Alexandre LeBrun told TechCrunch. “In six months, every company will call itself a world model to raise funding.” ...
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The AI that taught itself: How AI can learn what it never knew

For years, the guiding assumption of artificial intelligence has been simple: an AI is only as good as the data it has seen. Feed it more, train it longer, and it performs better. Feed it less, and it ...
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Improving robots’ social skills: Purdue professor programs robots for improved nonverbal communication to better support humans

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They’re emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to ...

‘Bread and butter of what I do’: Andrej Karpathy on AI agent that tuned a model on its own

Can AI train AI? OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy revealed that an autonomous AI agent improved the training efficiency of his NanoChat language model by about 11%. The system tested around 700 ...