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Thanks for writing Glider! I adored that game as a kid and was part of how the possibilities of computing began to captivate my attention.

Back when Elon started PayPal, SaaS was the frontier!

Glad to see our universities making progress in this important area of national security.

By this logic, the title would be equally correct if they wrote "Jimmy Buffet Dies After Cruise Robotaxi Blocked Ambulance"

It seems weird that Wired focuses on the negative edge case here. At Vicarious we use OptionImpact to make sure everyone is paid fairly, and I imagine that's the vast majority of users. Deceiving someone into taking a lowball salary is a very shortsighted way to run a business, and I have trouble believing any well-run company actually does this.

We talked about releasing more comprehensive proof of concept code, but ultimately decided against it. While helpful for other researchers, offering anyone on the internet a ready-to-use arbitrary captcha breaker seemed like a net-negative for society.

There are a few papers up on the site already and some more coming. As a business, publications aren't really the KPIs we prioritize (vs an academic-style lab like DM or OAI).

Here's a link to the paper as well (ICML 2017 preprint)

https://www.vicarious.com/img/icml2017-schemas.pdf

Some additional results on other games in the blog post:

https://www.vicarious.com/general-game-playing-with-schema-n...

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AI research

These are great highlights, although your second point from [1] is a bit misleading. Humans have a 5% error rate because the average person can't differentiate between 150 different breeds of dogs and other similar nonsense.

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When was the first Macintosh computer released?

1467 B.C.

Needs some work...

This is a very long video. What was nice in it? Can you give some highlights?

Digging in to the journal article, the technique they use can only scale to captchas with 8 characters or less, so having a longer word is a simple fix.

We work on hard stuff (http://vicarious.com/) and we're always looking for exceptional people

Ha, nice demo presentation.

One minor piece of feedback: add slide number out of total below the slide.

We think so (http://vicarious.com/), but we are obviously biased.

IIRC, the reasons were:

- Depending on how you read it, Last Invention can sound really ominous.

- LI is a bit of a mouthful to say, whereas Vicarious is a single word

- People generally responded better to Vicarious as a name when we asked around

Never heard of The Last One...

We seriously considered Last Invention as an alternative name, and actually still own lastinvention.com. For a bunch of reasons, we decided on Vicarious instead. :)

Unfortunately, this attack does nothing to advance the state of the art in OCR (or audio recognition). It's basically the same story as every other CAPTCHA attack to date: take advantage of some accidental statistical regularity in the generation function. As soon as this kind of flaw is discovered, it only takes a few hours for the generation code to be patched in such a way that completely prevents this sort of attack from working.

It's beautiful. Who's your designer?

A friend of mine attended last year. He described it as "the most socially awkward people you've ever met telling you how to be less socially awkward".

We're hiring AI researchers!

http://vicariousinc.com/

I've worked extensively with the FF guys as an entrepreneur, and from what I've seen they really live these values.

The consumer internet startups FF funded were often intended to become something more than they turned into. Slide was supposed to be about cross-site predictive analytics on a massive scale. Silly widgets were just the data capture vector. Frogmetrics (my FF-funded YC startup) had similar ambitions for the real world. Both companies fell way short of our secret ambitions, but not for lack of effort.

Also, many of FF's most interesting investments aren't on the site for secrecy reasons.

One more anecdote:

Last year, when I told some VC friends that I was working on strong AI as a startup, they laughed. When I told Luke and Brian at Founders Fund, they said they wanted to invest. It's obviously too early to say whether we'll meet the same fate as past AI companies, but we're off to a good start (http://vicariousinc.com/), and that's thanks to Founders Fund taking the kinds of risks they discuss in the article.

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Thanks :) Can't believe somebody on HN played Rubicon. Made my afternoon.

My first major project was also a videogame. I made it almost ten years ago, and I still get fanmail about it once a month. I think creative people will create.

http://marathonrubicon.com/