Personal website and blog of Eric Jang.| Eric Jang
Visible light occupies a small sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum, which spans radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays.| Eric Jang
1X released a teaser video of NEO Beta to the world yesterday.| Eric Jang
ARC Prize is an intelligence benchmark intended to be hard for AI and easy for humans. With a grand prize of $1,000,000, it is currently the most popular contest on Kaggle. Most AI systems (e.g. GPT4) perform much worse than human children on the benchmark.| Eric Jang
robot [ roh-bot ] (noun)| Eric Jang
I was on the job market recently, open to suggestions on what I should do next. I’m deeply thankful to all those who reached out and pitched their companies, and also to people who shared their wisdom of how they wanted to navigate their own careers.| Eric Jang
There are 397 companies in the recent YC 2022 Winter batch. Which ones should you invest in?| Eric Jang
DeepMind Robotics published the paper “RoboCat: A Self-Improving Foundation Agent for Robotic Manipulation (PDF)” earlier this week. I read the 50-page report and summarize in this post what I found to be the most interesting results from the paper. Some of my claims and inferences in this blog post are speculative because they draw from my experience working on similar projects (BC-Z, SayCan, MGDT).| Eric Jang
Avi Singh told me yesterday about a recent arxiv preprint, Reflexion, that proposes the following idea: use a LLM to examine whether the output of another generative model is “on the right track” during generation. According to the paper, “the reflection loop aims to help the agent correct common cases of hallucination and inefficiency through trial and error.” Reflexion extends the ReAct architecture to predict whether the agent should stop generating, pause, and reflect on its entir...| Eric Jang
In machine learning and optimization, it’s important to inject some noise into the optimization process to prevent local maxima. Taking that advice to heart, I’m applying some exploration noise into my life - this is my last week at Google Brain.| Eric Jang
I recently gave a talk (YouTube) at the RSS’22 L-DOD workshop. Here’s a lightly edited transcript and slides of the talk in blog form.| Eric Jang
I am very smart and utilitarian I've got no black friends| Eric Jang
In my essay “Just ask for Generalization”, I argued that some optimization capabilities, such as reinforcement learning from sub-optimal trajectories, might be better implemented by generalization than by construction. We have to generalize to unseen situations at deployment time anyway, so why not focus on generalization capability as the first class citizen, and then “just ask for optimality” as an unseen case? A corollary to this design philosophy is that we should discard inductiv...| Eric Jang