Internet connectivity has been growing at around 2% between 2015 – 2019. But over the last 2 years, it has grown by 8% which is a drastic increase in connectivity. Change in professional and personal life demands since the last two years has led to a transition in the user's expectations. From work from anywhere to e-healthcare and online education, the transition of everything from offline to online has led to growth in connectivity over the period. Adding to the listed gaming and entertainment have scaled up the expectations of the users by many folds.

Researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have developed a machine-learning program that can be connected to a human brain and used to command a robot. The program can alter the robot’s movements based on electrical signals from the brain.  These new advancements could assist tetraplegic patients who are unable to speak or perform movements. […]

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In many practical applications of AI, an AI model is used as a decision aid for human users. The AI provides advice that a human (sometimes) incorporates into their decision-making process. The AI advice is often presented with some measure of "confidence" that the human can use to calibrate how much they depend on or trust the advice. In this paper, we demonstrate that presenting AI models as more confident than they actually are, even when the original AI is well-calibrated, can improve human-AI performance (measured as the accuracy and confidence of the human's final prediction after seeing the AI advice). We first learn a model for how humans incorporate AI advice using data from thousands of human interactions. This enables us to explicitly estimate how to transform the AI's prediction confidence, making the AI uncalibrated, in order to improve the final human prediction. We empirically validate our results across four different tasks -- dealing with images, text and tabular data -- involving hundreds of human participants. We further support our findings with simulation analysis. Our findings suggest the importance of and a framework for jointly optimizing the human-AI system as opposed to the standard paradigm of optimizing the AI model alone.

Generative pretraining for sequence modeling has emerged as a unifying paradigm for machine learning in a number of domains and modalities, notably in language and vision (Radford et al., 2018; Chen et al., 2020; Brown et al., 2020; Lu et al., 2022). Recently, such a pretraining paradigm has been extended to offline reinforcement learning (RL) (Chen et al., 2021; Janner et al., 2021), wherein an agent is trained to autoregressively maximize the likelihood of trajectories in the offline dataset. During training, this paradigm essentially converts offline RL to a supervised learning problem (Schmidhuber, 2019; Srivastava et al., 2019; Emmons et al., 2021). However, these works present an incomplete picture as policies learned via offline RL are limited by the quality of the training dataset and need to be finetuned to the task of interest via online interactions. It remains an open question whether such supervised learning paradigm can be extended to online settings. Unlike language and perception, online finetuning for RL is fundamentally different from the pretraining phase as it involves data acquisition via exploration. The need for exploration renders traditional supervised learning objectives (e.g., mean squared error) for offline RL insufficient in the online setting. Moreover, it has been observed that for standard online algorithms, access to offline data can often have zero or even negative effect on the online performance (Nair et al., 2020). Hence, the overall pipeline for offline pretraining followed by online finetuning for RL policies needs a careful consideration of training objectives and protocols.

Catastrophic forgetting (CF) happens whenever a neural network overwrites past knowledge while being trained on new tasks. Common techniques to handle CF include regularization of the weights (using, e.g., their importance on past tasks), and rehearsal strategies, where the network is constantly re-trained on past data. Generative models have also been applied for the latter, in order to have endless sources of data. In this paper, we propose a novel method that combines the strengths of regularization and generative-based rehearsal approaches. Our generative model consists of a normalizing flow (NF), a probabilistic and invertible neural network, trained on the internal embeddings of the network. By keeping a single NF throughout the training process, we show that our memory overhead remains constant. In addition, exploiting the invertibility of the NF, we propose a simple approach to regularize the network's embeddings with respect to past tasks. We show that our method performs favorably with espect to state-of-the-art approaches in the literature, with bounded computational power and memory overheads.

Decentralized sparsity learning has attracted a significant amount of attention recently due to its rapidly growing applications. To obtain the robust and sparse estimators, a natural idea is to adopt the non-smooth median loss combined with a $\ell_1$ sparsity regularizer. However, most of the existing methods suffer from slow convergence performance caused by the {\em double} non-smooth objective. To accelerate the computation, in this paper, we proposed a decentralized surrogate median regression (deSMR) method for efficiently solving the decentralized sparsity learning problem. We show that our proposed algorithm enjoys a linear convergence rate with a simple implementation. We also investigate the statistical guarantee, and it shows that our proposed estimator achieves a near-oracle convergence rate without any restriction on the number of network nodes. Moreover, we establish the theoretical results for sparse support recovery. Thorough numerical experiments and real data study are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.

Those who wants to learn and understand only concepts can take course 1 only. Those who wants to learn and understand concepts and also wants to know and/or do programming of the those concepts should take both course 1 and course 2. It is highly recommended to complete course 1 before starting course 2. NOTE: This course do not teach computer vision, deep learning, Python and OOPs from scratch, instead uses all of these to develop camera perception algorithms for ADAS and Autonomous Driving applications.

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 10 February 2022 and 31 March 2022. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. Implementing Symbols and Rules with Neural Networks Speaker: Ellie Pavlick Organised by: Stanford MLSys Join the email list to get notified of the speaker and livestream link each week. Deep Learning with Python: What is deep learning? What can we learn from subtitled sign language data?

Up to £23 million in government funding will create more AI and data conversion courses, helping young people from underrepresented groups including women, black people and people with disabilities join the UK's world-leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) industry. Up to two thousand scholarships for masters AI conversion courses, which enable graduates to do further study courses in the field even if their undergraduate course is not directly related, will create a new generation of experts in data science and AI. The UK has a long and exceptional history in AI, from codebreaker Alan Turing's early work through to London-based powerhouse DeepMind's pioneering research which will enable quicker and more advanced drug discovery. AI underpins the apps which help us navigate around cities, stop online banking fraud and communicate with smart speakers. The UK is ranked third in the world for private venture capital investment into AI companies (2019 investment into the UK reached almost £2.5 billion) and is home to a third of Europe's total AI companies.