Anons digging on Netflix, neuropsychfags, AI-fags might find this one interesting:
"Julie Pitt, head of machine-learning infrastructure at Netflix, discovered Friston and the free energy principle in 2014, and it transformed her thinking. (Pitt’s Twitter bio reads, “I infer my own actions by way of Active Inference.”) Outside of her work at Netflix, she’s been exploring applications of the principle in a side project called Order of Magnitude Labs. Pitt says that the beauty of the free energy model is that it allows an artificial agent to act in any environment, even one that’s new and unknown. Under the old reinforcement-learning model, you’d have to keep stipulating new rules and sub-rewards to get your agent to cope with a complex world. But a free energy agent always generates its own intrinsic reward: the minimization of surprise. And that reward, Pitt says, includes an imperative to go out and explore."
Anyone familiar with Order of Magnitude Labs?
Sauce: https://www.wired.com/story/karl-friston-free-energy-principle-artificial-intelligence/?utm_brand=wired&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wired&mbid=social_twitter&utm_social-type=owned