posts, we explored Part I of the seminal book Reinforcement Learning by Sutton and Barto [1] (*). In that section, we delved into the three fundamental techniques underlying nearly every modern Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm: Dynamic Programming (DP), Monte Carlo methods (MC), and Temporal Difference Learning (TD). We not only discussed algorithms from each field …
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Research Published 31 August 2022 Authors Siqi Liu, Leonard Hasenclever, Steven Bohez, Guy Lever, Zhe Wang, S. M. Ali Eslami, Nicolas Heess Using human and animal motions to teach robots to dribble a ball, and simulated humanoid characters to carry boxes and play football Humanoid character learning to traverse an obstacle course through trial-and-error, which …
you should read this As someone who did a Bachelors in Mathematics I was first introduced to L¹ and L² as a measure of Distance… now it seems to be a measure of error — where have we gone wrong? But jokes aside, there seems to be this misconception that L₁ and L₂ serve the same function — and while …
New research drawing upon pragmatics and philosophy proposes ways to align conversational agents with human values Language is an essential human trait and the primary means by which we communicate information including thoughts, intentions, and feelings. Recent breakthroughs in AI research have led to the creation of conversational agents that are able to communicate with …
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I’ve had the opportunity recently to be involved with a program called Skype a Scientist, which pairs scientists of various types (biologists, botanists, engineers, computer scientists, etc) with classrooms of kids to talk about our work and answer their questions. I’m pretty familiar with discussing AI and machine learning with adult audiences, but this is the …
Applying our AI research to help enrich the lives of billions of people around the world Building useful products with new technologies has always been one of my greatest joys. As a boy, I’d spend hours connecting resistors, capacitors, and other electronic components with wires. First I’d assemble a Morse code circuit. Then dissemble the …
“fear of missing out” (FOMO) when it comes to LLM agents? Well, that was the case for me for quite a while. In recent months, it feels like my online feeds have been completely bombarded by “LLM Agents”: every other technical blog is trying to show me “how to build an agent in 5 minutes”. …
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Company Published 14 September 2022 Authors Koray Kavukcuoglu, Pushmeet Kohli, Lila Ibrahim, Dawn Bloxwich, Sasha Brown Reflections and lessons on sharing one of our biggest breakthroughs with the world Putting our mission of solving intelligence to advance science and benefit humanity into practice comes with crucial responsibilities. To help create a positive impact for society, …
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Transformers have changed the way artificial intelligence works, especially in understanding language and learning from data. At the core of these models are tensors (a generalized type of mathematical matrices that help process information) . As data moves through the different parts of a Transformer, these tensors are subject to different transformations that help the …
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Impact Published 21 September 2022 AlphaFold predictions are paving the way towards new treatments that can impact over 10 million people worldwide It was a source of hard-earned satisfaction after what had often felt like an uphill battle. David Komander and his colleagues had finally published the long-sought structure of PINK1. Mutations in the gene …
