Posts For Tag ai

2020

Lessons from the PULSE Model and Discussion

There was a big messy discussion on Twitter, which I reflected on.

2019

Is NeurIPS Getting Too Big?

At 13,000 attendees and 1,428 accepted papers, NeuRIPS has unquestionably become a huge conference. Does that make it worse or better as an academic conference?

AI Coverage Best Practices, According to AI Researchers

AI researchers often bemoan low quality coverage of their field; here are their recommendations.

OpenAI's dexterous robotic hand — separating progress from PR

The Rubik’s cube solving hand is representative of a true research contribution, but its many caveats do not merit the PR hype

In Favor of Developing Ethical Best Practices in AI Research

What are best practices AI researchers can follow to avoid unintended consequences of their research?

Job loss due to AI — How bad is it going to be?

Recent studies suggest the impact of AI on jobs in the near future will not be significantly more disruptive than the impact of automation in the past

2018

AI and the Future of Work

Is China winning the global AI race? How will developments in AI impact the job market, wealth inequality and the global economy?

Bringing Learning to Robotics - Highlights from RSS 2018

What do robotics researchers even do? This.

How to fix reinforcement learning

Learning how to learn better.

Reinforcement learning’s foundational flaw

By definition, learning from scratch inefficient.

AlphaGo Zero Is Not A Sign of Imminent Human-Level AI

Why DeepMind's Go playing program is not about to solve all of AI

2017

DeformNet, Or A Tale of Broken Chairs

Some bonkers stuff conjured up in the process of doing research

2016

The Power of IPython Notebook + Pandas + and Scikit-learn

I did a project with some nice tools, and now post this to recommend those tools

A 'Brief' History of Game AI Up To AlphaGo, Part 3

On the two-decade story of how two revolutionary ideas were combined to make AlphaGo

A 'Brief' History of Game AI Up To AlphaGo, Part 2

About how we got from the crummy Chess programs of the late 50s all the way to DeepBlue

A 'Brief' History of Game AI Up To AlphaGo

The start of the story of how humanity made computers good at Go

2015

A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning, Part 4

About the mid-2000s neural net comeback, and how deep learning ascended to the tsunami it is today

A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning, Part 3

About neural nets' flaws in the 90s, and how a new AI Winter dawned

A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning, Part 2

How the foundations of deep learning were developed in the 90s

A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning

The beginning of a story spanning half a century, about how we learned to make computers learn