Jim Fan, Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA and Lead of AI Agents Initiative, gave a keynote at the GenAI Summit 2024 where he talked about the latest AI at Nvidia. He describes the new world of virtual agents, humanoid bots and ultra-fast simulation and training.
There were three AI eras before the new AI era of agents. There are four aspects to define the era. The data, learning capability and the model. The classical era, we use little to almost no data and the learning. There’s no learning. Mostly it’s engineered. These things are engineered objects, and the capability is very brittle anything outside the templates, good luck. And the models at most are shallow models, or no models at all. And then the neural era, we have these constrained benchmarks, these small scale data sets, and maybe ImageNet 1.2 million is already the largest scale. And for the learning we do mostly supervised, where you have the label data and the capability are more like domain specialist. And these models are the deep models.
The agentic era is the latest AI era.
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Hope the AIs behave themselves:
“A recent empirical review found that many artificial intelligence (AI) systems are quickly becoming masters of deception, with many systems already learning to lie and manipulate humans for their own advantage.
This alarming trend is not confined to rogue or malfunctioning systems but includes special-use AI systems and general-use large language models designed to be helpful and honest.”
See:
https://thedebrief.org/shocking-new-study-says-ai-is-quickly-becoming-masters-of-deception-teaching-itself-to-lie-and-manipulate-human-users/
OK, I do not “get this” Honestly, I really try to caring about about people I will likely never meet. Why? Because honest to God , I care about people who I will never meet, whose names I would likely never know. Why? Because THEY know what their name is. And because of that, they know who their name is. And that’s why it should matter to me. Because every person, knows their name. That works for me. And I should give a damn about them, and I swear to God, I do.
OK. The guy kicking the big blue ball across the street looks just, weird. Granted, I don’t know the context in which he’s doing that, but seriously? I guess if I was a cop, I’d ask him why he was doing that. That answer might be, interesting. I guess I may not get a rational answer to that question. But I’m sure it was rational enough to the guy giving me that answer.
Golly gee Wally, shall we move on?
This will probably be answered before my reply gets posted but…
On top of the ball is a small quadruped robot dog that, if I remember the story correctly, was taught to balance on the ball while walking by an AI to demonstrate that AI could not just be in control of bots but also be used to train them.