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Haunted House: A text-based game for comparing the flexibility of mental models in humans and LLMs
Puppart, Brett, Paltmann, Paul-Henry, Aru, Jaan
The advent of transformer-based large language models (LLMs) has reignited the philosophical debate of human significance - a question that has persisted for millennia. Aristotle thought the function of humans was to live according to the rational principle, which was something that distinguished us from other animals (Aristotle, 2014) . Back then, this might have seemed like a reasonable conclusion, as humans use complex language and abstract thinking to a degree that other animals simply do not. However, recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are shining light on the possibility that in the future we might be living in a world in which our creation is more intelligent than us - or perhaps that this world is already here. In many benchmarks comparing humans and AI, LLMs have shown a trend of rapid increase in performance. In SimpleBench, which measures common sense reasoning and social intelligence, GPT-4o scored only 17.8% and o1-preview 41.7% (Philip & Hemang, 2024) .
This AI was created to beat the hardest game of 2020
You may already be aware that Spelunky 2 is one of the best games of the year. You may also be aware that it is very, very difficult. One wrong step or a misplaced whip swing can easily send you back to the very beginning. Part of what makes the Spelunky games so challenging is their randomness: levels are generated on the fly with some preset rules, but the overall layouts can vary dramatically. Playtesting every possible level by hand would take centuries.
A Simulation Model for Pedestrian Crowd Evacuation Based on Various AI Techniques
Muhammed, Danial A., Saeed, Soran A. M., Rashid, Tarik A.
This paper attempts to design an intelligent simulation model for pedestrian crowd evacuation. For this purpose, the cellular automata (CA) was fully integrated with fuzzy logi c, the k th nearest neighbors ( K NN), and some statistical equations. In this model, each pedestrian was assigned a specific speed, according to his/her physical, biological and emotional features. The emergency behavior and evacuation efficiency of each pedestrian were evaluated by coupling his/her speed with various elements, such as environment, pedestrian distribution and familiarity with the exits. These elements all have great impacts on the ev acuation process. Several experiments were carried out to verify the performance of the model in different emergency scenarios. The results show that the proposed model can predict the evacuation time and emergency behavior in various types of building int eriors and pedestrian distributions. The research provides a good reference to the design of building evacuation systems.
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The list of self-driving vehicles is ever growing, with companies now producing cars, planes and even military trucks without the need for drivers. And the latest means of transport to be given the autonomous treatment is a public bus. Mercedes-Benz has revealed its self-driving'Future Bus', which it says will be the'local public transport of the future'. As well as being self-driving, the Future Bus will contain a range of modern features in the aim of allowing its passengers to'enjoy a fascinating driving experience.' So far, the bus has been tested on a 12 mile (20 km) route through Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where it performed without any problems - although there was a driver in place in case of emergency.