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sandGorgon on Aug 16, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund

> Many of these funds are putting time and resources into securing data sets, technical mentors and advanced simulation tools to support the unique needs of AI startups

What are "advanced simulation tools" ? something like https://github.com/marcotcr/lime ?

tachyonbeam on Aug 16, 2017 | [–]

Simulated worlds / games like the OpenAI gym and DeepMind lab come to mind:

https://gym.openai.com/

https://github.com/deepmind/lab

ericjang on Aug 16, 2017 | [–]

I would guess "environment simulators"? Environments are to RL as datasets are to supervised/unsupervised learning.

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