Skild AI announced a post-training result in which its S1 robotics foundation model taught itself to play soccer through physical self-play, competing against previous versions of itself in NVIDIA's I…
Richard Sutton's 2019 essay 'The Bitter Lesson' argues that in artificial intelligence, general approaches that scale with computational power outperform domain-specific methods in the long run, as ex…
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) warns that if smarter-than-human AI is developed this decade, the expected outcome is human extinction, citing the CAIS Statement endorsed by leading…
Shrijith Venkatramana, building git-lrc, explains that synthetic data has become a key ingredient for scaling modern large language models. By 2022, frontier AI labs had exhausted much of the public h…