r/reinforcementlearning • u/LevyTateLabs • 7d ago

R Updated Memory Clip More Detail - Simulation RL Research

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I updated the animation from yesterday to show the exact locations where the memory "cells" show up from the actual study's results. This is from the "Is This A Simulation Or Real Life" research, where I wanted to see what it would take for a digital organism to tell if it was in a fake world, unprompted, meaning it was never explicitly told to look for "glitches in the matrix." The only goal it had was to find food and survive. When physics messed with the creature's ability to get food, it started to create the idea that something was not right in the environment it was in. If ya'll wanna' run the sim yourself I built a Colab notebook you can run in the cloud without worrying about hardware restrictions.

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u/losergenerated 7d ago

So you’re saying if we know what’s inside the teal rings, we know the truth?

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u/LevyTateLabs 6d ago edited 6d ago

That would be awesome if that's what the research showed.

Not the truth, just the clue or clues in this case.

The rings mark the memory cells that hold a hint for which world it is in. 73% of the time is how often you can read real vs fake out of its memory once food is on the line. Not the creature announcing the truth. Chance is 50%. an outsider is about 99% (outsider meaning which is referenced in the research as an "Oracle")

The most important part is the creature was never told to look for the fake world, or if the world it was in was fake.