We train blind AI agents to navigate — i.e. no sensory input other than ego-motion and found the emergence of wall-following, collision-detection neurons, and map-like representations in their memories. This provides new insights into the success of 'map-free' navigation agents.
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Blind Navigation Agents Learn to Create Mental Maps
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📣 New paper: Emergence of Maps in the Memories of Blind Navigation Agents
— AI at Meta (@AIatMeta) 1 février 2023
Humans have the ability to navigate poorly lit spaces by relying on touch and memory. Our research shows that blind AI agents can learn to do the same.
Read the paper ➡️ https://t.co/XY5kNU5FwR pic.twitter.com/IbfumhR4ZUNew paper: Emergence of Maps in the Memories of Blind Navigation Agents Humans have the ability to navigate poorly lit spaces by relying on touch and memory. Our research shows that blind AI agents can learn to do the same. Read the paper https://
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Minedojo Featured in Foundation Models for Decision Making Article
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Thank you @laxmevy for featuring Minedojo in an in-depth article on using pre-trained foundation models for decision making
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GPTwitter: Novel User-Level Personalization on LangChain
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Introducing the first of hopefully many guest posts highlighting novel applications building on top of LangChain GPTwitter: an application that we believe achieves user-level personalization in a novel, reproducible, and under-explored way
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Gartner’s Top 10 Tech Trends for 2023: Metaverse, AI, Cloud
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Stay ahead of the game with Gartner's Top 10 Tech Trends for 2023! Discover the future of Metaverse, AI, and Cloud technology. Insights by @ingliguori
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Appreciation for Monthly Quality ML Community Events
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Kudos to you man, for bringing such quality events every month for the ML community
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San Francisco Pushes Back Against Driverless Car Expansion
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Some cars are now driverless. And that can be a problem. As Waymo and Cruise seek to expand their services, the city of San Francisco is pushing back:
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MIT Researcher Publishes First Computer Science Paper in Telugu
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The Indian language Telugu has roughly 95 million speakers worldwide. But Indian students still lack STEM resources in their native languages — so an MIT researcher wrote the first original CS paper in Telugu: http://
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Contact Groq to Learn About Our Offerings
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Reach out to info@groq.com to meet with us and learn more about @GroqInc offerings. https://
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Research Impact Beyond Papers: Building Cumulative Understanding
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Many have the misconception that research is just about publishing papers. In my view, research is about creating a body of work that, when taken in aggregate, extends our understanding. Papers are just stepping stones. This seems like a nice initiative to refocus things.
