Top news of the week: 07.10.2021.
Research
AlphaFold Is The Most Important Achievement In AI—Ever
Machine learning will transform the life sciences in the years ahead.
Nvidia, University of Toronto are making robotics research available to small firms
Despite progress in the field, research on robotics hands remains extremely expensive and limited to a few very wealthy companies and labs.
The Curse of Large Models
Large models in ML are a manifestation of Silicon Valley excesses; luckily, they don't make sense from a business perspective either.
Engineers at Google's DeepMind Have Made a Major Advance in Weather 'Nowcasting'
When it comes to the weather report, it's not just tomorrow's weather that meteorologists try to discern.
How I Got a Job at DeepMind as a Research Engineer (without a Machine Learning Degree!)
In this blog I give you the tips on how to land a job at your dream AI company (like OpenAI, DeepMind, etc.).
Mismatched No More: Joint Model-Policy Optimization for Model-Based RL
Many model-based reinforcement learning (RL) methods follow a similar template: fit a model to previously observed data, and then use data from that model for RL or planning. However, ...
The Senate Is Mad as Hell at Facebook—Again
The latest hearing on Instagram and teen mental health was the depressing work of a legislature that can’t legislate.