jayd

Research environment/game designer @GoogleDeepMind 🤖 puzzle artificer, taiko drummer, other things. Opinions mine. Prev: @DMGToronto @DamageLabs

[jayd @jaydmaty]

An open letter to the @DMGToronto board of directors, and the wider DMG community --
https://t.co/dCgmLsq2HM

Cc: @jennie

[jennie R.F @jennie]

I was exiled from @DMGToronto 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: https://t.co/WSLAovToZQ

[Joel Z Leibo @jzl86]

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

[Edgar Duenez-Guzman @DuenezGuzman]

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, @jaydmaty @WilCunningham @sindero @DannyKarmon @jzl

[Edgar Duenez-Guzman @DuenezGuzman]

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: https://t.co/RvOImXS1A3
Paper: https://t.co/BegNgO6GdD

[anton 🇺🇸 @atroyn]

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

[akbir. @akbirkhan]

super excited to annnounce the Melting Pot Challenge!

a goalpost for multi-agent researchers: building socially robust and welfare-optimising agents!
🌈❤️✌🏾

[Cooperative AI Foundation @coop_ai]

Together with colleagues from @GoogleDeepMind and @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: https://t.co/uaBOgb9Hra.

[Cooperative AI Foundation @coop_ai]

Excited to announce the Melting Pot Contest has been accepted for NeurIPS Competition Track!

Sign up below for early access
https://t.co/t3dL3YEtG5

[Nadine Spychala - https://mstdn.social/@nadinespy @NadineSpychala]

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: https://t.co/v9dwOuMxtS

Some bits on what it’s about (mostly points from the post’s summary):
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[Olaf Witkowski @okw]

#ALIFE2023 Here we go! 🦾

[Anil Seth @anilkseth]

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 https://t.co/nQaYdMWGhL

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

The duolingo owl

[jayd @jaydmaty]

I wanted to share this letter ahead of the upcoming AGM in hopes that it will be received in good faith, and utilized in service of the growth/healing of this community as well as the rebuilding of trust within it 💜

[jayd @jaydmaty]

An open letter to the @DMGToronto board of directors, and the wider DMG community --
https://t.co/dCgmLsq2HM

Cc: @jennie

[jayd @jaydmaty]

I’m stepping down from the board of directors.

I have been at _such_ a low capacity for quite a while now, and at this time feel it important to make room for others that may be better able to lead DMG towards and through some difficult but necessary changes.

[Alex Francois @thebrained]

Watching @DaftLimmy play my friends @cloakanddaggerg and @WadjetEyeGames 'The Excavation of Hob's Barrow' and who should I see but Sydney from The Slaughter, and he's brought the bar with him😅

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

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 @weidingerlaura, @mgreinecke, and Julia Haas: https://t.co/m9H1Fxd6YC

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

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: https://t.co/wLNTdmUwza 1/

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

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").

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

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."