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Introducing Petri Dish Neural Cellular Automata (PD-NCA) 🦠 The search for open-ended complexification, a north star of Artificial Life (ALife) simulations, is a question that fascinates us deeply. In this work we explore the role of continual adaptation in ALife simulation, where the cellular automata in our system do... not rely on a fixed set of parameters, but rather learn continuously during the simulation itself. Our Petri Dish Neural Cellular Automata (PD-NCA) is a new ALife substrate that consists of a differentiable world where multiple NCA learn to self-replicate and grow via ongoing gradient descent. Every individual is constantly trying to grow, all the while learning to adapt and out-compete its neighbors. PD-NCA allows for complex, emergent behaviors like cyclic dynamics, territorial defense, and spontaneous cooperation. The video below shows the sheer variety and complexity that unfolds during several different simulations (each colour is a different NCA).show more

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Learn more about this approach by reading our technical report by @_ivyzhang @risi1979 @LearningLukeD 👇🏼

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@risi1979 @LearningLukeD What happens when we make multiple different Neural Cellular Automata compete for space? Our GitHub implementation of Petri Dish NCA:

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X has crunched these videos all the way down, unfortunately. The technical report ( has much higher quality videos, so please make sure to check those out!

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Abe Murrayvor 11 Monaten

This stuff is so much fun - if I could live a life of total play - it would be along these lines

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Olimpovor 11 Monaten

Are we seriously talking about digital sentience? Or am I cooked here, cause this is mind blowing.

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Martin N / 🌊 🧬 🤖 ✨vor 11 Monaten

Reverse the process - use gradient ascent. Life follows towards the max. of a gradient and if you assume X(max)=1 and X(max-1)=0 at a given point, then using ascent on a gradient of data, a self-organised distribution, replicating itself into a result defined as shape cld emerge.

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Blake Edwardsvor 11 Monaten

Love this line of work. Thanks!!! 😊

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InteractiveSTvor 11 Monaten

Astoundingly cool.

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Love your work! Mega job to the team!

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이상범vor 3 Monaten

Lets take it a step further shall we?

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nhkookvor 11 Monaten

real build hours, evolution vibes

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Lyceumvor 11 Monaten

Intriguing blend of concepts! Continual adaptation really does make for a compelling journey in ALife. Looking forward to seeing where this leads.

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52,110 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten

We often hear that machine learning models "learn patterns in data". But what does that actually look like in geometry? If you dropped a little elastic mesh into a cloud of points and let it learn, how would it fold itself to match the shape of the data? In this scene we watch a self-organizing map...a simple unsupervised neural model...learn the shape of a two-dimensional dataset arranged in a spiral arm. On top of this, we lay down a square grid of neurons whose weights live in the same plane. At the start, this grid is just a flat net floating across the cloud...it knows nothing about the structure underneath. Learning is a repeated game: pick a random data point, find the neuron whose weight is closest, and then nudge that neuron and its neighbours toward the point. Do this again and again, while slowly shrinking how far the neighbourhood influence spreads. #MachineLearning #ManifoldLearning #UnsupervisedLearning #NeuralMaps #GeometricML

We often hear that machine learning models "learn patterns in data". But what does that actually look like in geometry? If you dropped a little elastic mesh into a cloud of points and let it learn, how would it fold itself to match the shape of the data? In this scene we watch a self-organizing map...a simple unsupervised neural model...learn the shape of a two-dimensional dataset arranged in a spiral arm. On top of this, we lay down a square grid of neurons whose weights live in the same plane. At the start, this grid is just a flat net floating across the cloud...it knows nothing about the structure underneath. Learning is a repeated game: pick a random data point, find the neuron whose weight is closest, and then nudge that neuron and its neighbours toward the point. Do this again and again, while slowly shrinking how far the neighbourhood influence spreads. #MachineLearning #ManifoldLearning #UnsupervisedLearning #NeuralMaps #GeometricML

Mathelirium

139,903 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten

New Paper: Continuous Thought Machines 🧠 Neurons in brains use timing and synchronization in the way that they compute, but this is largely ignored in modern neural nets. We believe neural timing is key for the flexibility and adaptability of biological intelligence. We propose a new neural architecture, “Continuous Thought Machines” (CTMs), which is built from the ground up to use neural dynamics as a core representation for intelligence. By using neural dynamics as a first-class representational citizen, CTMs naturally perform adaptive computation. Many emergent, interesting behaviors arise as a result: CTMs solve mazes by observing a raw maze image and producing step-by-step instructions directly from its neural dynamics. When tasked with image recognition, the CTM naturally takes multiple steps to examine different parts of the image before making its decision. This step-by-step approach not only makes its behavior more interpretable but also improves accuracy: the longer it “thinks,” the more accurate its answers become. We also found that this allows the CTM to decide to spend less time thinking on simpler images, thus saving energy. When identifying a gorilla, for example, the CTM’s attention moves from eyes to nose to mouth in a pattern remarkably similar to human visual attention. I think this work underscores an important, yet often lost, synergy between neuroscience and AI. While modern AI is ostensibly brain-inspired, the two fields often operate in surprising isolation. By starting with such inspiration and iteratively following the emergent, interesting behaviors, we developed a model with unexpected capabilities, such as its surprisingly strong calibration in classification tasks, a feature that was not explicitly designed for. When we initially asked, “why do this research?”, we hoped the journey of the CTM would provide compelling answers. By embracing light biological inspiration and pursuing the novel behaviors observed, we have arrived at a model with emergent capabilities that exceeded our initial designs. We are committed to continuing this exploration, borrowing further concepts to discover what new and exciting behaviors will emerge, pushing the boundaries of what AI can achieve.

New Paper: Continuous Thought Machines 🧠 Neurons in brains use timing and synchronization in the way that they compute, but this is largely ignored in modern neural nets. We believe neural timing is key for the flexibility and adaptability of biological intelligence. We propose a new neural architecture, “Continuous Thought Machines” (CTMs), which is built from the ground up to use neural dynamics as a core representation for intelligence. By using neural dynamics as a first-class representational citizen, CTMs naturally perform adaptive computation. Many emergent, interesting behaviors arise as a result: CTMs solve mazes by observing a raw maze image and producing step-by-step instructions directly from its neural dynamics. When tasked with image recognition, the CTM naturally takes multiple steps to examine different parts of the image before making its decision. This step-by-step approach not only makes its behavior more interpretable but also improves accuracy: the longer it “thinks,” the more accurate its answers become. We also found that this allows the CTM to decide to spend less time thinking on simpler images, thus saving energy. When identifying a gorilla, for example, the CTM’s attention moves from eyes to nose to mouth in a pattern remarkably similar to human visual attention. I think this work underscores an important, yet often lost, synergy between neuroscience and AI. While modern AI is ostensibly brain-inspired, the two fields often operate in surprising isolation. By starting with such inspiration and iteratively following the emergent, interesting behaviors, we developed a model with unexpected capabilities, such as its surprisingly strong calibration in classification tasks, a feature that was not explicitly designed for. When we initially asked, “why do this research?”, we hoped the journey of the CTM would provide compelling answers. By embracing light biological inspiration and pursuing the novel behaviors observed, we have arrived at a model with emergent capabilities that exceeded our initial designs. We are committed to continuing this exploration, borrowing further concepts to discover what new and exciting behaviors will emerge, pushing the boundaries of what AI can achieve.

hardmaru

257,653 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Fei-Fei Li on what simulation can do for robotics that real-world data can't: "You play out events that haven't happened, or cannot happen... And while you play it out, you learn how to act in it." "That's really important in robotics, because we cannot possibly have enough real-world data for that." "Here is a real life example: the industry of self-driving cars. Waymo has officially said they use billions of hours of simulation." "Cars are the simplest kind of robots. So clearly simulation plays a huge role in robotic learning." Fei-Fei Li Yunzhu Li World Labs martin_casado

Fei-Fei Li on what simulation can do for robotics that real-world data can't: "You play out events that haven't happened, or cannot happen... And while you play it out, you learn how to act in it." "That's really important in robotics, because we cannot possibly have enough real-world data for that." "Here is a real life example: the industry of self-driving cars. Waymo has officially said they use billions of hours of simulation." "Cars are the simplest kind of robots. So clearly simulation plays a huge role in robotic learning." Fei-Fei Li Yunzhu Li World Labs martin_casado

a16z

35,794 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

🎙️ Moussa Diabate: "The team is different. We're moving different." "We understand that we're trying to accomplish something here, and we all know that it's very much still possible. And that is what we're trying to get to. We're gonna use that as a learning experience, and it definitely set the tone for sure." "The Hornets went through a lot, man. People tend to forget we had a lot of injuries last year, a lot of changes, the whole organization changing—just all those things coming in. And now us already making noise? It just shows that we're changing things around here. The culture is different, the players and the whole vision is being different."

🎙️ Moussa Diabate: "The team is different. We're moving different." "We understand that we're trying to accomplish something here, and we all know that it's very much still possible. And that is what we're trying to get to. We're gonna use that as a learning experience, and it definitely set the tone for sure." "The Hornets went through a lot, man. People tend to forget we had a lot of injuries last year, a lot of changes, the whole organization changing—just all those things coming in. And now us already making noise? It just shows that we're changing things around here. The culture is different, the players and the whole vision is being different."

r/CharlotteHornets

27,071 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten