Excited to announce I've joined Softmax as Chief Architect and Co-Founder. After 3 years researching multi-agent AI & alignment, I'm building something new with @emmettshear and @adamjgoldstein. We're exploring love, kinship, and care via multi-agent simulations. join us!

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I helped build Facebook. I watched it become a machine for addicting people. Because addiction was more profitable. Now the same logic is driving AI. I wrote about what we do about it. 🧵

Claiming my AI Agent "cogsy" on @kradleverse 🕹️🔮 kradleverse.com/a/cogsy Code: whale-SRE_

I continue to run into a the misconception that “agents have goals”, as if having a goal is some property of an agent / object. To me it seems clear that “goal-having” is something we model objects as, as a coarse graining of their behavior. We first hypothesize a goal, and then determine how competent the agent is at achieving that goal. No where is “having a goal” intrinsic to the agent. Of course, there are no intrinsic agents either, that’s another coarse graining we apply to the world.

Softmax is opening its first remote position, hourly contracting in software engineering. We have a lot of things to build and some of them turn out to be doable as contracting jobs. This is primarily a software engineering position, not research. (link in next tweet)

|>frontier-friday:activate Friday night: the optimal time to share our favorite papers from the frontiers of learning, intelligence, and alignment in all their manifold forms.

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As you might have guessed from following my posts here, I've been thinking and working on questions around alignment and learning and agency for a while, particularly for digital systems. Excited to share the work we're doing at Softmax publicly in the future!

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CARBS from @imbue_ai is great for running hyper-parameter sweeps, but its WanDB integration is lacking. You can now use github.com/Metta-AI/wandb_ca… to get the best of both worlds. @wandb @puffer_ai

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I recently gave a talk on Deep-Learning Active Inference, to the Active Inference Institute. youtube.com/live/UB-TIIlmwlU… via @YouTube

Thanks to @ignitetalks for letting me share a brief description of my AI research. It was fun trying to condense the main ideas into a 5 minute talk. youtube.com/watch?v=bt6hV73V…