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Showing posts with label discovery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label discovery. Show all posts
Sunday, August 09, 2026
How Did Foreign Travellers See Ancient India? with Palki Sharma
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
An anthropologist finds a WWII souvenir (a Roman tombstone) in her backyard in New Orleans. FBI is investigating
Amazing stuff!
"A Tulane professor digging in her New Orleans backyard unearthed a 2nd-century Roman tombstone that had been missing since World War II, sparking an international investigation.
The marble marker, belonging to a Roman Imperial Navy officer, vanished from a museum in Civitavecchia, Italy, after a 1943 bombing.
Experts from Tulane and the University of New Orleans confirmed its authenticity, and the artifact has been turned over to the FBI Art Crime Team for repatriation.
Italy plans to officially receive the stone back in a ceremony slated for summer 2026."
Thursday, September 26, 2019
One Of The Powers Of AI: Discovery
Posted: 9/26/2019
Today, I read one of the latest, very impressive OpenAI blog posts (S1) and dawned on me again that probably one of the most powerful features of AI is discovery of new/novel/unexpected ways of doing things. As humanity continues its journey into AI we will find all sorts of surprising discoveries presented by AI.
Here is a salient excerpt from this blog post:
“We’ve observed agents discovering progressively more complex tool use while playing a simple game of hide-and-seek. Through training in our new simulated hide-and-seek environment, agents build a series of six distinct strategies and counterstrategies, some of which we did not know our environment supported. The self-supervised emergent complexity in this simple environment further suggests that multi-agent co-adaptation may one day produce extremely complex and intelligent behavior.” (S1; emphasis added)
Many areas of scientific and mathematical research are already benefiting enormously from this power to discover, e.g. chemistry (synthesis of new materials, medicines etc.).
We are only at the beginning of this exciting journey!
Sources (S):
- Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction (OpenAI 9/17/19)
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