My PhD thesis is finished! It's all about making reinforcement learning agents more adaptive to changes in their environment. Here's the audio summary by NotebookLM.

See the full pdf on my website (link below)

I was encouraged this week to see the leaders of the frontier labs agree on the need for them to slow down the pace of AI development. Given the stakes, it’s a good and necessary first step.
 
But I’m even more encouraged by the growing recognition that how this powerful new technology develops should be at the center of our public debate.
 
I’ve been watching the progress on AI for over a decade now, and one thing that’s clear to me is that the potential impact of this technology is not overhyped. It’s also moving at lightning speed – and even faster than those who are engineering it can keep up with.
 
I’m not an AI accelerationist who believes it will lead to some techno-utopia, and I’m not a doomer who thinks it will inevitably lead to humanity’s destruction.

But whether this technology results in amazing breakthroughs in medicine, energy and education or unleashes huge economic disruptions, greater inequality, and potential catastrophe will depend on the choices that we make right now – choices that should be made not just by the companies involved, but by all of us.

We created an @factoriogame like GPU accelerated RL simulation environment called Factoriax. We released it today, link below :).

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For a long time, the limits of AI deployment were only defined by technical capabilities. But as AI continues to make rapid progress, it needs to become a deliberate, collective choice about what kind of world we want to shape.

Eindhoven seems to beat it 🤷‍♂️

In the past few months, I enjoyed supervising a group of Honors Academy students who designed their own "roomba-with-arm" using the SO-ARM101 and the @LeRobotHF codebase.

Kudos to Aleksandr, Francisco, and Rovshan!

If leading AI companies are indeed approaching the point of recursive self-improvement, a coordinated, verifiable, and universally applied pause is probably the only responsible solution to mitigate several major AI risks; at least until safety guarantees are developed and demonstrated. Ensuring that such a moratorium is respected would require sincere collaboration between various countries and companies, but I definitely believe it is achievable if others follow in @AnthropicAI's footsteps.

Twee keer per jaar wordt PSV kampioen 🎶

Full pdf: bramgrooten.nl/thesis

I'll be defending this work on April 8th, 16:00 at TU Eindhoven. Let me know if you'd like to be there, or if you'd like a physical copy of the book 🤓

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Join the international boycott now.

I've written a quick blog post on VLA papers that were presented at AAAI a few weeks ago:
bramgrooten.nl/blog/vlas-at-a…

We organized an RL competition during the first Openmind Research Institute Winter School in Malaysia. The participants were able to implement SARSA and SAC in just 2 days onboard our Embodied MuJoCo Ant! 🎉

When multiple people mention a paper to you, you know you should probably read it

I should probably read the UniVLG paper, heard it multiple times here at AAAI

Staying calm while AGI sparks are flying around.

"This is what it feels like to do AI research nowadays"
--Yolanda Gil, in her invited talk at AAAI

(she showed this picture of Nikola Tesla reading a book in his lab)

The most important session of #AAAI is overflowing

Well done, @s_albrecht 👏🏻