Olaf Witkowski
@okw
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Ethical AI & Artificial Life • Director @CrossLabsTokyo | President @alifeofficial | Lecturer UTokyo • Open-Ended Cognition | Moral Machines | Future of Minds
Kyoto, Japan
Joined December 2006
New preprint available with @caleb_scharf on a rethink of habitable zones through the lens of computation. We study the universal limits of bioinformation processes, which may offer us new insights into biosignatures and enhance our search for diverse forms of life in the cosmos.
Thread on my new paper with @okw on a somewhat radical rethink of the notion of 'habitable zones' - through a new lens of "computational zones"...1/n
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In history, games have been a driving force for the development of AI. They are the constricted channels of communication that bring about intelligence patterns emerge in agents.
I quite like the idea using games to evaluate LLMs against each other, instead of fixed evals. Playing against another intelligent entity self-balances and adapts difficulty, so each eval (/environment) is leveraged a lot more. There's some early attempts around. Exciting area.
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RT @drmichaellevin: New preprint with @DrNRouleau : what do the major theories of #consciousness say as to why it's specifically associate…
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RT @ALifeConf: Save the date! The annual #Conference on #ArtificialLife - #ALIFE2025 will take place in the heart of Kyoto, Japan, from 6…
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Amazing feat – albeit of course nowhere close to large scale quantum computing yet, neither in Willow-105 nor China’s Tianyan-504! Just to be clear, error correction scaling is a long-term effort. And it started nearly 30 years ago, with leaps by Shor, Steane, and Preskill.
Quantum computers offer many promising applications dependent on greatly improved performance. Read how we’ve combined quantum error correction w/ our latest superconducting processor, Willow, exponentially reducing error rates w/ increasing qubit scale →
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Who wants to help me generate an Artificial Life version of these videos? I want to combine the sense of awe in watching these with deep surprise at seeing another world. It will require object permanence, stable replicators, and diverse forms of emergent evo-devo-eco learning…
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RT @svlevine: An intriguing new result from @katie_kang_: after training long enough, LLMs will reproduce training examples exactly (not su…
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RT @MLStreetTalk: We just released @fchollet keynote talk from #AGI24. He challenges LLM hype, discusses ARC-AGI benchmark, and proposes me…
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Here is to scientific awards that recursively generate their own new awards by contributing to tomorrow’s new forms of medicine, then life, and intelligence – congratulations!
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
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RT @NobelPrize: This year’s #NobelPrize laureate in physics John Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct imag…
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A time to celebrate now – tomorrow we’ll keep on the good work!
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
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RT @BensenHsu: @NobelPrize John J. Hopfield's most cited paper: The study explores the computational properties that can emerge from a larg…
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RT @okw: I explore the nuanced boundaries of AGI in a new post: 'Limited AGI: The Hidden Constraints of Intelligence at Scale' https://t.co…
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RT @kenneth0stanley: Prediction: while backprop will likely play a role in any future AGI, there will also be at least one completely novel…
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