There are many potential targets and complex obstacles on the path to safe and successful AGI. Astera seeks to complement existing research by supporting alternate pathways and new models. By providing significant resources, Astera provides a home to diverse AI research that would otherwise be neglected.
Astera enables the Neuro-AI team to focus on basic research and take a long-term view. Our teams are unconstrained by the need to secure funding, garner profit, or publish results. The team also has access to significant computational resources.
- How does an agent continuously adapt to a changing environment and incorporate new information?
- In a complicated stochastic environment with sparse rewards, how does an agent associate rewards with the correct set of actions that led to those rewards?
- How does higher level planning arise?
Our approaches are heavily inspired by cognitive science and neuroscience. To measure our progress, we implement reinforcement learning tasks where humans currently do much better than state-of-the-art AI.