The Rundown January 4, 2020
Wired story on dead drops, both the actual and virtual kinds.
Alexa is always listening.
Sovereign gold bonds: ”SGBs are government securities denominated in grams of gold. They are substitutes for holding physical gold.”
Emergent Tool Use from Multi-Agent Interaction: “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.“
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.