**Tutorials' day**
Room H 0900 - 1230: "Creating multiplayer, interactive online experiments with Empirica" with Mohammed Alsobay @malsobay, and James Houghton
Learning to Model the World with Language
paper page: https://t.co/jYjQnqEJAR
To interact with humans in the world, agents need to understand the diverse types of language that people use, relate them to the visual world, and act based on them. While current agents learn to execute simple language instructions from task rewards, we aim to build agents that leverage diverse language that conveys general knowledge, describes the state of the world, provides interactive feedback, and more. Our key idea is that language helps agents predict the future: what will be observed, how the world will behave, and which situations will be rewarded. This perspective unifies language understanding with future prediction as a powerful self-supervised learning objective. We present Dynalang, an agent that learns a multimodal world model that predicts future text and image representations and learns to act from imagined model rollouts. Unlike traditional agents that use language only to predict actions, Dynalang acquires rich language understanding by using past language also to predict future language, video, and rewards. In addition to learning from online interaction in an environment, Dynalang can be pretrained on datasets of text, video, or both without actions or rewards. From using language hints in grid worlds to navigating photorealistic scans of homes, Dynalang utilizes diverse types of language to improve task performance, including environment descriptions, game rules, and instructions.
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https://t.co/SoLTkRf9s4
@johnmariomag @gareththeworld @imjohngo kailangan maglakad ng 20 minutes to get to a train station and 5 minutes to get to a bus station (and wait longer for the bus) here in japan, bud 🙃 the sidewalks are wide tho 👌