
Researcher Engineer @DeepMind; prev. @imperialcollege working on https://nitter.gq/t.co/UcqetMWn7y; opinions my own
Joined September 2015
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Animal-AI v2.0 is out! 🤖🧠🐀
- Bumps ml-agents to 0.15
- Parallel envs for training (=> a lot faster)
- Notebook tutorials
- 900 experiments available
- Entire @unity3d source available
github.com/beyretb/AnimalAI-…
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How can we rigorously investigate the common-sense capabilities of agentic AI systems? How can we build better models of non-human animal cognition?
(Re-)introducing the Animal-AI Environment: A virtual laboratory for comparative cognition and artificial intelligence research!
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🎉 Stoked to share The AI-Scientist 🧑🔬 - our end-to-end approach for conducting research with LLMs including ideation, coding, experiment execution, paper write-up & reviewing.
Blog 📰: sakana.ai/ai-scientist/
Paper 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2408.06292
Code 💻: github.com/SakanaAI/AI-Scien…
Work led together with @_chris_lu_, @cong_ml and jointly supervised by @j_foerst, @jeffclune, @hardmaru 🤗
Introducing The AI Scientist: The world’s first AI system for automating scientific research and open-ended discovery!
sakana.ai/ai-scientist/
From ideation, writing code, running experiments and summarizing results, to writing entire papers and conducting peer-review, The AI Scientist opens a new era of AI-driven scientific research and accelerated discovery.
Here are 4 example Machine Learning research papers generated by The AI Scientist.
We published our report, The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery, and open-sourced our project!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2408.06292
GitHub: github.com/SakanaAI/AI-Scien…
Our system leverages LLMs to propose and implement new research directions. Here, we first apply The AI Scientist to conduct Machine Learning research. Crucially, our system is capable of executing the entire ML research lifecycle: from inventing research ideas and experiments, writing code, to executing experiments on GPUs and gathering results. It can also write an entire scientific paper, explaining, visualizing and contextualizing the results.
Furthermore, while an LLM author writes entire research papers, another LLM reviewer critiques resulting manuscripts to provide feedback to improve the work, and also to select the most promising ideas to further develop in the next iteration cycle, leading to continual, open-ended discoveries, thus emulating the human scientific community. As a proof of concept, our system produced papers with novel contributions in ML research domains such language modeling, Diffusion and Grokking.
We (@_chris_lu_, @RobertTLange, @hardmaru) proudly collaborated with the @UniOfOxford (@j_foerst, @FLAIR_Ox) and @UBC (@cong_ml, @jeffclune) on this exciting project.
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The General Agents team at @GoogleDeepMind Toronto is looking for a new Research Scientist. Apply if you have the right skills and want to work with us on building generalist agents that can interact with simulated and real world environments!
boards.greenhouse.io/deepmin…
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🎉 Stoked to share NeuroEvoBench – a JAX-based Evolutionary Optimizer benchmark for Deep Learning 🦎/🧬
🌎 To be presented at #NeurIPS2023 Datasets & Benchmarks with @yujin_tang & @alanyttian
🌐: sites.google.com/view/neuroe…
📜: arxiv.org/abs/2311.02394
🧑💻: github.com/neuroevobench/neu…
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If you're an #AI PhD student with an interest in either a) reasoning with LLMs or b) learning abstract representations, then @DeepMind's Cognition team are looking for interns for 2023: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmin…
The deadline is soon!
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A great 🧵 here from @jalayrac. Here's a short one of my own 1/9
Funny enough, the image for the middle one is an output from #dalle when prompted for "a blue cube on top of a red cube, beside a smaller yellow sphere"🙃
nitter.gq/david_madras/status/15…
Replying to @jalayrac
2. Spatial arrangement understanding
🦩 has basic spatial understanding but can easily struggle when things become more fine grained or are more out of the distribution compared to what 🦩 has seen during training. Credit to @BenBeyret 6/11
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In this fun project, we trained artificial life using machine learning!
Lenia creatures learn to survive obstacles using gradient descent (Neural CA) & curriculum learning (IMGEP), generalize well to unseen tasks.
Full video + blog post + interactive demo: developmentalsystems.org/sen…
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Job alert! Postdoc position to work with @LucyCheke and me on a @LeverhulmeCFI project, bridging the gap between animal and machine learning: jobs.ac.uk/job/CLI736/resear…
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🚂 Looking for a tool to manage your training runs locally, on Slurm/Grid Engine clusters, SSH servers or GCP VMs? `mle-scheduler` provides a lightweight API to launch & monitor job queues on all of these 🚀
💻 [repo]: github.com/mle-infrastructur…
📜 [colab]: colab.research.google.com/gi…
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DeepMind internship applications are open! deepmind.com/careers/interns…
(Deadline October 4th)
ML sure has gone a long way from playing with cats and dogs pictures...
r/ML comments discussing using model + hashes to retrieve input CSAM images, the hell is wrong with people 😱
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Release 2.2 of AAI is out. Only the start of the roadmap, and essentially just more setup for future additions, but looks like these kinds of tasks are going to remain relevant for a long time.
github.com/mdcrosby/animal-a…
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Hiring an evolutionary computation researcher at Araya. Exciting collaboration with @GoodAIdev and @err_more (@crosslabstokyo) to explore evolutionary and open-ended algorithms to video game asset design! 🧬🕹️
research.araya.org/careers/
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Preprint time again! Direct human-AI comparison using the Animal-AI Testbed by @KozzyVoudouris and team.
Spoiler: Children (aged 6-10) outperform AI by a lot.
psyarxiv.com/me3xy/
I'm so excited I made a quiz of AI vs Child performance (thread)
Q1 Child or AI?
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Applications close tomorrow!
Now hiring a part-time research assistant to help with Animal-AI development! Join @LucyCheke
and me at the @LeverhulmeTrust
Centre for the Future of Intelligence.
Applications close 3rd March!
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/28692/
Basically we want your help to turn things like this:
Listen, this is the absolute best opportunity out there for research towards cognitive agents.
The team is fantastic, the project is challenging, I can't recommend this enough!
Spread the word
We are now hiring a part-time research assistant to help with Animal-AI development! Join @LucyCheke and me at the @LeverhulmeTrust Centre for the Future of Intelligence.
Applications close 3rd March!
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/28692/
Basically we want your help to turn things like this:
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We are releasing Ivy, a library for framework-agnostic deep learning 🎉
Write your code once and instantly get support for TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX, MXNet and NumPy!
We also include four libraries written with Ivy: Mechanics, Vision, Robotics
and Gym 🪴
ivy-dl.org
We are excited to release Ivy, a new open source Deep Learning framework!
Ivy unifies the syntax and call signatures of existing frameworks.
Write your code once in Ivy, and support all frameworks simultaneously.
Links to Paper, Code and Docs here: ivy-dl.org
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I'm very happy to announce that the full text of my 2010 book "Embodiment and the Inner Life" is now freely available: doc.ic.ac.uk/~mpsha/Shanahan…




















