“…The key is enabling AI to learn from their environments and faithfully represent an abstract version of them in their “heads,” the way humans and animals do. To do it, developers need to train AIs by using simulations of the world…The world-model approach—which somewhat confusingly refers to both the simulated training environment and the abstract representation…”
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A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like N.B.A. Stars.”…Some potential hires were told they would be allotted 30,000 graphical processing units, or GPUs, for their A.I. research, one of the people said…”
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