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Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030: The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In September 2016, Stanford's "One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence" project (AI100) issued the first report of its planned long-term periodic assessment of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on society. It was written by a panel of 17 study authors, each of whom is deeply rooted in AI research, chaired by Peter Stone of the University of Texas at Austin. The report, entitled "Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030," examines eight domains of typical urban settings on which AI is likely to have impact over the coming years: transportation, home and service robots, healthcare, education, public safety and security, low-resource communities, employment and workplace, and entertainment. It aims to provide the general public with a scientifically and technologically accurate portrayal of the current state of AI and its potential and to help guide decisions in industry and governments, as well as to inform research and development in the field. The charge for this report was given to the panel by the AI100 Standing Committee, chaired by Barbara Grosz of Harvard University.


Teacher-student curriculum learning for reinforcement learning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Reinforcement learning (rl) is a popular paradigm for sequential decision making problems. The past decade's advances in rl have led to breakthroughs in many challenging domains such as video games, board games, robotics, and chip design. The sample inefficiency of deep reinforcement learning methods is a significant obstacle when applying rl to real-world problems. Transfer learning has been applied to reinforcement learning such that the knowledge gained in one task can be applied when training in a new task. Curriculum learning is concerned with sequencing tasks or data samples such that knowledge can be transferred between those tasks to learn a target task that would otherwise be too difficult to solve. Designing a curriculum that improves sample efficiency is a complex problem. In this thesis, we propose a teacher-student curriculum learning setting where we simultaneously train a teacher that selects tasks for the student while the student learns how to solve the selected task. Our method is independent of human domain knowledge and manual curriculum design. We evaluated our methods on two reinforcement learning benchmarks: grid world and the challenging Google Football environment. With our method, we can improve the sample efficiency and generality of the student compared to tabula-rasa reinforcement learning.


Domain Curricula for Code-Switched MT at MixMT 2022

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In multilingual colloquial settings, it is a habitual occurrence to compose expressions of text or speech containing tokens or phrases of different languages, a phenomenon popularly known as code-switching or code-mixing (CMX). We present our approach and results for the Code-mixed Machine Translation (MixMT) shared task at WMT 2022: the task consists of two subtasks, monolingual to code-mixed machine translation (Subtask-1) and code-mixed to monolingual machine translation (Subtask-2). Most non-synthetic code-mixed data are from social media but gathering a significant amount of this kind of data would be laborious and this form of data has more writing variation than other domains, so for both subtasks, we experimented with data schedules for out-of-domain data. We jointly learn multiple domains of text by pretraining and fine-tuning, combined with a sentence alignment objective. We found that switching between domains caused improved performance in the domains seen earliest during training, but depleted the performance on the remaining domains. A continuous training run with strategically dispensed data of different domains showed a significantly improved performance over fine-tuning.


[100%OFF] Numpy And Pandas For Beginners

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This is Numpy and Pandas for Beginners course. An excellent choice for both beginners and experts looking to expand their knowledge on one of the most popular Python libraries in the world! If you've spent time in a spreadsheet software like MS Excel or Google Sheets and want to take your data analysis skills to the next level, this course is for you! Pandas is a Python package providing fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with "relational" or "labeled" data both easy and intuitive. It aims to be the fundamental high-level building block for doing practical, real-world data analysis in Python.


Grant will help Career Center start artificial-intelligence club - Sun Gazette

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The future is now, or soon will be, at the Arlington Career Center. Arlington School Board members on Oct. 27 approved a one-year, $10,000 grant in support of the new artificial-intelligence club that is starting at the school. The program will be overseen by physics instructor Ryan Miller in collaboration with Inspirit AI, which provides curriculum for middle-school and high-school students in the artificial-intelligence field.


Breaking into Data Science and Machine Learning with Python

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Let me tell you my story. I graduated with my Ph. D. in computational nano-electronics but I have been working as a data scientist in most of my career. My undergrad and graduate major was in electrical engineering (EE) and minor in Physics. After first year of my job in Intel as a "yield analysis engineer" (now they changed the title to Data Scientist), I literally broke into data science by taking plenty of online classes.


Machine Learning with Python Basics (For Beginners)

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Machine Learning with Python Basics (For Beginners) - Learn the Basics of Machine Learning with Python (First Step For Beginners)


[100%OFF] NumPy - Pandas - PostgreSQL Basic To Advanced For Beginners

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This is Numpy,Pandas and PostgreSQL for Beginners course. One question or concern I get a lot is that people want to learn deep learning and data science, so they take these courses, but they get left behind because they don't know enough about the Numpy stack in order to turn those concepts into code. Even if I write the code in full, if you don't know Numpy, then it's still very hard to read. This course is designed to remove that obstacle โ€“ to show you how to do things in the Numpy stack that are frequently needed in deep learning and data science. So what are those things?


Cloud Machine Learning Engineering and MLOps

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With more companies leveraging software that runs on the Cloud, there is a growing need to find and hire individuals with the skills needed to build solutions on a variety of Cloud platforms. Employers agree: Cloud talent is hard to find. This Specialization is designed to address the Cloud talent gap by providing training to anyone interested in developing the job-ready, pragmatic skills needed for careers that leverage Cloud-native technologies. In the first course, you will learn how to build foundational Cloud computing infrastructure, including websites involving serverless technology and virtual machines, using the best practices of DevOps. The second course will teach you how to build effective Microservices using technologies like Flask and Kubernetes that are continuously deployed to a Cloud platform: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).


On Rate-Distortion Theory in Capacity-Limited Cognition & Reinforcement Learning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Throughout the cognitive-science literature, there is widespread agreement that decision-making agents operating in the real world do so under limited information-processing capabilities and without access to unbounded cognitive or computational resources. Prior work has drawn inspiration from this fact and leveraged an information-theoretic model of such behaviors or policies as communication channels operating under a bounded rate constraint. Meanwhile, a parallel line of work also capitalizes on the same principles from rate-distortion theory to formalize capacity-limited decision making through the notion of a learning target, which facilitates Bayesian regret bounds for provably-efficient learning algorithms. In this paper, we aim to elucidate this latter perspective by presenting a brief survey of these information-theoretic models of capacity-limited decision making in biological and artificial agents.