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Applied Use Cases

On Apr 21, 2020
@MIRIBerkeley shared
RT @DeepMind: What happens if AI ingenuity is applied to an imperfectly specified task? This can result in specification gaming: an agent exploiting a loophole at the expense of the intended outcome. Why does it happen, & how can it be overcome? Read our latest post: https://t.co/FDm2iiutWX
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Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity

Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity

Specification gaming is a behaviour that satisfies the literal specification of an objective without achieving the intended outcome. We have all had experiences with specification gaming, ...

On Apr 20, 2020
@AI_TechNews shared
Leading AI researchers propose ‘toolbox’ for verifying ethics claims https://t.co/PRWu1Jeez7 #news #tech #ethics #society #ai https://t.co/ts1unAxkIk
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Leading AI researchers propose ‘toolbox’ for verifying ethics claims

Leading AI researchers propose ‘toolbox’ for verifying ethics claims

Researchers from OpenAI, Google Brain, Intel, and 28 other leading organisations have published a paper which proposes a ‘toolbox’ for verifying AI ethics claims.

On Apr 21, 2020
@kmkurn shared
RT @PyTorch: v1.5: autograd API for Hessians/Jacobians, C++ frontend stable and 100% parity with Python, Better performance on GPU and CPU with Tensor Format ‘channels last’, distributed.rpc stable, Custom C++ class binding Release notes: https://t.co/P3iisDOoRg Blog: https://t.co/svnBmPyGHV
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PyTorch 1.5.0 Release Notes

PyTorch 1.5.0 Release Notes

Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration - pytorch/pytorch

On Apr 22, 2020
@zacharylipton shared
@ziebrah @RDBinns Much (but not all) of what I have to say on the topic is in the Mythos paper (CACM): https://t.co/o43Zbdf75W
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The Mythos of Model Interpretability

The Mythos of Model Interpretability

In machine learning, the concept of interpretability is both important and slippery.

On Apr 23, 2020
@syhw shared
RT @EXGRV: Training with QuantNoise allows to strongly compress neural networks: 80.0% accuracy on ImageNet in 3.3MB, 82.5MB accuracy on MNLI in 14MB. Blog: https://t.co/lfzoVpuvnv Paper: https://t.co/CbSwRVePqd
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Training with quantization noise for extreme model compression

Training with quantization noise for extreme model compression

Quant-Noise is a new technique to enable extreme compression of state-of-the-art NLP and CV models without significantly affecting performance.

On Apr 21, 2020
@dmonett shared
RT @went1955: ‘Our message is that we need to be more careful about evaluating these techniques. Especially in this day and age when machine learning is getting more and more complicated, it’s important to have understanding of what can and cannot be done’ (ht @dmonett) https://t.co/WxVk55Gkae
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Widely Used AI Machine Learning Methods Don’t Work as Claimed

Widely Used AI Machine Learning Methods Don’t Work as Claimed

Researchers demonstrated the mathematical impossibility of representing social networks and other complex networks using popular methods of ‘low-dimensional embeddings.’ Models and ...

On Apr 23, 2020
@zacharylipton shared
RT @D2L_ai: Here is an introduction to https://t.co/MzhIsafM8o by KDnuggets https://t.co/g8Uacp3U9u
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Dive Into Deep Learning: The Free eBook

Dive Into Deep Learning: The Free eBook

This freely available text on deep learning is fully interactive and incredibly thorough. Check out "Dive Into Deep Learning" now and increase your neural networks theoretical understanding ...

On Apr 18, 2020
@andersen shared
As a reader, I’m always so grateful for the sharp historical lens ⁦@ibogost⁩ brings to his work. Read him here on what will become of the post-pandemic grocery store: https://t.co/iTYsBBRoFd
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The Supermarket After the Pandemic

The Supermarket After the Pandemic

The coronavirus will change grocery stores, and probably not for the better.