Letting Chatbots See Your Data: Coding framework LlamaIndex enables data interaction with LLMs
Reinforcement Learning

Letting Chatbots See Your Data: Coding framework LlamaIndex enables data interaction with LLMs

A new coding framework lets you pipe your own data into large language models. LlamaIndex streamlines the coding involved in enabling developers to summarize, reason over, and otherwise manipulate data from documents, databases, and apps using models like GPT-4.

July 5, 20231 min read
Letting Chatbots See Your Data: Coding framework LlamaIndex enables data interaction with LLMs
Reinforcement Learning

Letting Chatbots See Your Data: Coding framework LlamaIndex enables data interaction with LLMs

A new coding framework lets you pipe your own data into large language models. LlamaIndex streamlines the coding involved in enabling developers to summarize, reason over, and otherwise manipulate data from documents, databases, and apps using models like GPT-4.

July 5, 20231 min read
Optimizing Matrix Multiplication:  AlphaTensor for faster matrix multiplication, explained
Reinforcement Learning

Optimizing Matrix Multiplication: AlphaTensor for faster matrix multiplication, explained

Matrix multiplication is executed so often in deep learning, video games, and scientific computing that even a slight acceleration can save substantial amounts of processing time. New work finds ways to speed up this crucial operation.

June 7, 20233 min read
Optimizing Matrix Multiplication:  AlphaTensor for faster matrix multiplication, explained
Reinforcement Learning

Optimizing Matrix Multiplication: AlphaTensor for faster matrix multiplication, explained

Matrix multiplication is executed so often in deep learning, video games, and scientific computing that even a slight acceleration can save substantial amounts of processing time. New work finds ways to speed up this crucial operation.

June 7, 20233 min read
Efficient Reinforcement Learning: IRIS used reinforcement learning to master Atari games with little gameplay.
Reinforcement Learning

Efficient Reinforcement Learning: IRIS used reinforcement learning to master Atari games with little gameplay.

Both transformers and reinforcement learning models are notoriously data-hungry. They may be less so when they work together. Vincent Micheli and colleagues at the University of Geneva trained a transformer-based system to simulate Atari games using a small amount of gameplay.

March 29, 20232 min read
Efficient Reinforcement Learning: IRIS used reinforcement learning to master Atari games with little gameplay.
Reinforcement Learning

Efficient Reinforcement Learning: IRIS used reinforcement learning to master Atari games with little gameplay.

Both transformers and reinforcement learning models are notoriously data-hungry. They may be less so when they work together. Vincent Micheli and colleagues at the University of Geneva trained a transformer-based system to simulate Atari games using a small amount of gameplay.

March 29, 20232 min read
Real-World Training on the Double: A new method rapidly trains robots in the real world.
Reinforcement Learning

Real-World Training on the Double: A new method rapidly trains robots in the real world.

Roboticists often train their machines in simulation, where the controller model can learn from millions of hours of experience. A new method trained robots in the real world in 20 minutes.

March 22, 20232 min read
Real-World Training on the Double: A new method rapidly trains robots in the real world.
Reinforcement Learning

Real-World Training on the Double: A new method rapidly trains robots in the real world.

Roboticists often train their machines in simulation, where the controller model can learn from millions of hours of experience. A new method trained robots in the real world in 20 minutes.

March 22, 20232 min read
Streamlined Robot Training: Robots trained in lo-fi simulation perform better in reality.
Reinforcement Learning

Streamlined Robot Training: Robots trained in lo-fi simulation perform better in reality.

Autonomous robots trained to navigate in a simulation often struggle in the real world. New work helps bridge the gap in a counterintuitive way.

February 22, 20232 min read
Streamlined Robot Training: Robots trained in lo-fi simulation perform better in reality.
Reinforcement Learning

Streamlined Robot Training: Robots trained in lo-fi simulation perform better in reality.

Autonomous robots trained to navigate in a simulation often struggle in the real world. New work helps bridge the gap in a counterintuitive way.

February 22, 20232 min read
AI Cheat Bedevils Popular Esport: Gamers are using AI to cheat in Rocket League.
Reinforcement Learning

AI Cheat Bedevils Popular Esport: Gamers are using AI to cheat in Rocket League.

Reinforcement learning is powering a new generation of video game cheaters. Players of Rocket League, a video game that ranks among the world’s most popular esports, are getting trounced by cheaters who use AI models originally developed to train contestants.

February 1, 20232 min read
AI Cheat Bedevils Popular Esport: Gamers are using AI to cheat in Rocket League.
Reinforcement Learning

AI Cheat Bedevils Popular Esport: Gamers are using AI to cheat in Rocket League.

Reinforcement learning is powering a new generation of video game cheaters. Players of Rocket League, a video game that ranks among the world’s most popular esports, are getting trounced by cheaters who use AI models originally developed to train contestants.

February 1, 20232 min read
Google’s Rule-Respecting Chatbot: Research helps AI chatbots be more truthful and less hateful.
Reinforcement Learning

Google’s Rule-Respecting Chatbot: Research helps AI chatbots be more truthful and less hateful.

Amid speculation about the threat posed by OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot to Google’s search business, a paper shows how the search giant might address the tendency of such models to produce offensive, incoherent, or untruthful dialog.

January 26, 20233 min read
Google’s Rule-Respecting Chatbot: Research helps AI chatbots be more truthful and less hateful.
Reinforcement Learning

Google’s Rule-Respecting Chatbot: Research helps AI chatbots be more truthful and less hateful.

Amid speculation about the threat posed by OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot to Google’s search business, a paper shows how the search giant might address the tendency of such models to produce offensive, incoherent, or untruthful dialog.

January 26, 20233 min read
Yoshua Bengio: Deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio looks forward to neural nets that can reason.
Reinforcement Learning

Yoshua Bengio: Deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio looks forward to neural nets that can reason.

Recent advances in deep learning largely have come by brute force: taking the latest architectures and scaling up compute power, data, and engineering. Do we have the architectures we need, and all that remains is to develop better hardware and datasets so we can keep...

December 28, 20223 min read

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