Yondon Fu
@YondonFu
The AIs will learn war, politics and culture from experience by empire building and waging the next great war in Eve. Awaiting the book sequel to Empires of Eve!It went under the radar, but DeepMind and the maker of Eve Online have formed a pretty fascinating partnership around AI and game universes. @demishassabis and @HilmarVeigar both seem personally invested @kyliebytes and I get into this, @midjourney's body scanner, the- Co-playable characters like PUBG Ally, as agents with system 1/2 thinking, context awareness + real-time voice/text, feel like an interesting ref for new human-AI interaction systems outside of games.
- Interesting result showing 3D understanding in image generators. Complements recent work showing physics understanding in video generators x.com/giffmana/statu…Two steps to SOTA-level depth estimation: a strong T2I model + a simple post-training recipe. No bespoke depth architectures or complex pipelines needed -- the 3D understanding is already in the prior. Fantastic work led by @BDuisterhof!
- Anthropic is getting an economic return from their mech interp R&D as it helps them efficiently scale refusals for high value domains (eg probes in constitutional classifiers) nudging high WTP users into trusted access program with different pricing and silent nerfs (eg steering
