@shimon8282.bsky.social

Professor of Computer Science at Oxford. Senior Staff Research Scientist at Waymo.

Check out our new work on learning to drive in new cities without collecting any new demonstrations in that city. All we need is a simple reward function and readily available map and meta-information about the city. Self-play reinforcement learning does the rest!

Zilin Wang@oshrin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

1/ 🚗 🌏 What if an autonomous vehicle could move to a new city without collecting a single human demonstration in that city? I am so excited to introduce our new work: Learning to Drive in New Cities Without Human Demonstrations.

What if instead of viewing AI as a separate entity, we treat the human and computer as one cognitive unit that together outperforms either on its own? My prefrontal cortex doesn't fret about delegating visual processing to my visual cortex. I don't fret about delegating navigation to Google Maps.

Anna E. Clark@annaeclark.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.