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Predicting machine learning moats
Models aren't moats and how emergent behavior scaling laws will change the business landscape.
Nathan Lambert
Dec 28, 2022
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Closed-API vs Open-source continues: RLHF, ChatGPT, data moats
Model-as-a-service makes more sense when there is a data advantage to back it up.
Nathan Lambert
Dec 19, 2022
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The RLHF battle lines are drawn
Tales of the open and closed sides, how these two dynamics will dictate progress and public perception.
Nathan Lambert
Feb 27
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RLHF, 'online' ML systems, and RL going mainstream
Common machine learning systems are starting to deploy the RL lens of feedback.
Nathan Lambert
Dec 5, 2022
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Pretraining quadrupeds: a case study in RL as an engineering tool
How an unlikely corner of robotics research, locomotion, defined RL's new notion of success.
Nathan Lambert
Jan 16
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How all machine learning becomes reinforcement learning
I make the case why people iteratively training any model should learn some core concerns of reinforcement learning.
Nathan Lambert
Jun 14, 2021
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"10 years of automation in 1 year"
What the automation acceleration from COVID19 actually will look like. What did robotics look like a decade ago and is this step feasible?
Nathan Lambert
Jun 12, 2020
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Looking into 2023
My predictions for machine learning this year: 3D assets, self-driving, GPT4, RLHF, Deep RL, diffusion models, and conference cycles.
Nathan Lambert
Jan 6
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"AI alignment" and uncalibrated discourse on AI
Re-naming arms races; bridging communities; aligning ChatGPT, and more.
Nathan Lambert
Feb 20
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Scaling laws for robotics & RL: Not quite yet
Robotics Transformers, DreamerV3, XLand 2, and hoping that scaling laws are coming embodied AI.
Nathan Lambert
Feb 1
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Three seasons of RL: Metaphor, tool, and framework
How we’re passing through different eras of how reinforcement learning is viewed.
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Thomas Krendl Gilbert
Feb 15
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Boston Dynamics 🤖🐈: Studying Athletic Intelligence
The acrobatic dance videos are flashy, but what are the actual technical breakthroughs? What is happening to the Korean robotics industry?
Nathan Lambert
Jan 29, 2021
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