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In the News
- Microsoft asks the U.S. Congress to regulate face recognition. More
- A report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute urges better oversight of international partnerships on AI, to ensure that collaborations are not being exploited for military uses. More
- Facebook hires head of chip development from Google. More
Workplace
Hiring? Looking for a job?
I am listing open positions in A.I. / M.L. here. Feel free to submit open positions here!
- NLP Scientist @ Hugging Face, New York
- Senior Data Science Engineer @ AdRoll, San Francisco
- Research Scientist @ Stradigi AI, Montreal/Toronto
- ML Engineer @ Instrumental, Mountain View CA
- Sr Data Scientist @ AIG, Bangalore India
- Postdoc researcher, ML in genetics of language, University of Iowa
- AI Infrastructure Backend Engineer @ Aigent, Amsterdam Netherlands
- Applied ML Engineer @ Clarifai, New York / Washington
- AI Product Strategist @ La Javaness, Paris France
- Algorithm Engineer @ Coherent AI, Silicon Valley / Shenzhen / Wuhan
Learning
On “solving” Montezuma’s Revenge
DeepMind and OpenAI recently claimed they were able to solve complex games (such as Montezuma's Revenge) that involve long sequences of actions with sparse rewards. This post highlights the limits of those achievements.
Takeaways from Netflix’s Personalization Workshop 2018
Speakers from Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Spotify, and University of Minnesota shared how to understand and serve your users better. Includes challenges of multi-armed bandits, an implicit feedback approach, top-N ranking techniques, tyranny of the majority and algorithmic bias.
Medical AI Safety: We have a problem
"For the first time ever AI systems are replacing human judgement in actual clinics. For the first time ever AI systems could directly harm patients, with unsafe systems leading to overspending, injury, or even death."
Software tools & code
A years-old, one-letter typo led to Aliens: Colonial Marines’ weird AI
AI programs tend to fail silently when mis-programmed. This can lead to nasty bugs and weird AI behaviors.
Foundations of Machine Learning
Understand the concepts, techniques and mathematical frameworks used by experts in Machine Learning
Seedbank
Seedbank is a living encyclopedia about AI programming and research. Seedbank is a website that contains a collection of machine learning examples which can be interacted with via a live programming interface in Google 'colab'.
Some thoughts
How should we evaluate progress in AI?
Progress in AI can be hard to evaluate, especially as AI has borrowed criteria and methods from science, engineering, design, mathematics, philosophy and spectacle. So how do you objectively evaluate advances?
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