
Episode 24: Jack Parker-Holder, DeepMind, on open-endedness, evolving agents and environments, online adaptation, and offline learning
Generally Intelligent
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Is There a Better Time to Join the Fields?
I think there's just an explosion of new things for the year every year. Now you could run something like Brax on a call out of a train agent in one minute. I also think the large conferences are really great as well. Lots of people are against them and they're against their review process. But it's definitely a way to get the reasonable ideas. So for example, it pays off plus EBT. The reason why we even discovered DDPs was because Christoph, who he was working with, went to a New York's tutorial on DDPs. And so really that shows you that we wouldn't have been exposed to that if it wasn't the big conference
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