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by elefanten 10y ago
No, not directly. DeepMind Lab is a 3D environment that can be highly customized -- looks like its built on an old Quake engine. Their pitch seems to include a lot of real world task simulation. OpenAI Universe is made to sandbox and emulat
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by elefanten 10y ago
Valve is already involved, I imagine we'll see Dota 2 support.
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by elefanten 10y ago
There are reasons to suspect the author's story as told. What stands out to me is that he really doesn't seem like the genius he portrays himself to be. It's possible but doesn't seem likely that a Business Administratio
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by elefanten 10y ago
Yes, this is why humans still need to work out some of the age old problems, like governance and ethics. Otherwise it's going to be kind of a dice roll--what are the values of the first team to achieve the governance-eclipsing technolo
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by elefanten 10y ago
You seem to be quickly concluding that democracy is dead in America because of surveillance. That surveillance may be illegal but it doesnt change how the officers of government are chosen. America is still a democracy, unless you truly bel
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by elefanten 10y ago
I think there's a pretty clear class of things that people are referring to as "fake news" currently. Yes, some people conflate it with more debatable claims about bias, quality or whatever. And yes, even the obvious or verif
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by elefanten 10y ago
OP didn't say "not useful" - it was couched more moderately, which I imagine still allows for the possibility of unforeseen greater uses. But the specific point made seems sound to me. The hypothetical 5 point difference woul
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by elefanten 10y ago
I think the Washington Post pretty badly mischaracterized the original findings, which were as follows: "18F Branding – Staff spent 727 hours (valued at an estimated $140,104) developing the 18F brand. An example of one of their brandi