Yep. Text says: "I don't think anxiety about AI is really about AI at all. I think it's some white men's displaced anxiety upon realizing that women and people of color have, and have always had sentience, and are beginning to act on it on scales that they're unprepared for."

I remember the first time I interviewed someone when I was at Apple. She didn't make eye contact with me at all. She was only talking to the white man with me. (He complained later on to the rest of the team that she had nail polish & so he wasn't sure if she'd be "hands on").

Reinforcement learning agents can learn to cooperate, compete, and communicate in multi-agent settings. New research explores the emergence of micro-economic behaviour as agents learn to produce, consume, and trade resources in simulated worlds: dpmd.ai/Emergent-Barte… 1/

How do we assess the moral capacities of artificial systems? One novel approach applies insights from developmental psychology to the grounded study of morality in AI. Work by Laura Weidinger, Madeline G. Reinecke is on bsky, and Julia Haas: dpmd.ai/dm-amc

Watching twitch.tv/Limmy play my friends Cloak and Dagger Games - Hob's Barrow OUT NOW! and Dave Gilbert 'The Excavation of Hob's Barrow' and who should I see but Sydney from The Slaughter, and he's brought the bar with him😅

The duolingo owl

I’ve been writing a blog post on collaboration in science – it’s long, but there’s a summary/TL;DR (and a TL;DR of the TL;DR), and some nice photos to look at, too: nadinespy.github.io/posts/2023/05/… Some bits on what it’s about (mostly points from the post’s summary): 1/13

Excited to announce the Melting Pot Contest has been accepted for NeurIPS Competition Track! Sign up below for early access iryc1zmdzmb.typeform.com/to/GrsAjGAW

#ALIFE2023 Here we go! 🦾

Not a bad place to read a bit of Ted Chiang’s brilliant Exhalation in preparation for our conversation on Friday afternoon, as part of #ALIFE2023 in Sapporo 2023.alife.org/programme/publ…

Together with colleagues from Google DeepMind and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), we're excited to announce that the Melting Pot Contest at #NeurIPS2023 is now live! We're offering $10,000 in prizes and $60,000 in additional support. Sign up here: aicrowd.com/challenges/mel….

super excited to annnounce the Melting Pot Challenge! a goalpost for multi-agent researchers: building socially robust and welfare-optimising agents! 🌈❤️✌🏾

if you’re confused about how large language models work this new animation from google deepmind should clear a lot of things up

Extremely excited to share our work on Generative Agent-Based Modeling. We are open sourcing Concordia, a platform for creating social simulations with language models. Code: github.com/google-deepmin… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2312.03664

Language-mediated simulations of grounded environments where a Game Master (inspired by tabletop role-playing games) is responsible for simulating the environment. Work with Sasha Vezhnevets, John Agapiou, Avia Aharon, Ron Ziv, jayd Wil Cunningham Dr S Osindero 🇺🇦🐘 σ(soc, sindero)+elsewhere tbd Danny Karmon @jzl

Very happy to launch Concordia, a library for generative agent-based modeling where you build simulations like tabletop roleplaying games! The game master (storyteller) is an agent who controls the environment where player agents interact, tracks state and can call external tools

I was exiled from DMG three years ago, but I still have so much love for the community. Now, it's insolvent. A sad end, but I hope we can carry on the spirit of DMG – radical inclusion, free self-expression, and transformative play. My thoughts: soand.so