Aligning superhuman AI with human behaviour: chess as a model system

September 14, 2020September 13, 2020 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ Leave a comment

Aligning superhuman AI with human behavior: chess as a model system, McIlroy-Young et al., KDD'20 It's been a while, but it's time to start reading CS papers again! We'll ease back into it with one or two papers a week for a few weeks, building back up to something like 3 papers a week at ... Continue Reading

A theory of the learnable

January 31, 2018 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 7 Comments

A theory of the learnable Valiant, CACM 1984 (Also available in ) Today’s paper choice comes from the recommend study list of Prof. Margaret Martonosi’s 2015 Princeton course on “Great moments in computing.” A list I’m sure we’ll be dipping into again! There is a rich theory of computation when it comes to what we ... Continue Reading

Concrete problems in AI safety

November 29, 2017 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 7 Comments

Concrete problems in AI safety Amodei, Olah, et al., arXiv 2016 This paper examines the potential for accidents in machine learning based systems, and the possible prevention mechanisms we can put in place to protect against them. We define accidents as unintended and harmful behavior that may emerge from machine learning systems when we specify ... Continue Reading

Computing machinery and intelligence

October 20, 2017 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 9 Comments

Computing machinery and intelligence A.M. Turing, MIND 1950 This is most certainly a classic paper. We’ve all heard of the ‘Turing Test,’ but have you actually read the paper where Alan Turing defines it? I confess I hadn’t until recently, and there’s a whole lot more to it than I was expecting. Yes, it describes ... Continue Reading

Using word embedding to enable semantic queries on relational databases

July 6, 2017 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 4 Comments

Using word embedding to enable semantic queries in relational databases Bordawekar and Shmeuli, DEEM'17 As I'm sure some of you have figured out, I've started to work through a collection of papers from SIGMOD'17. Strictly speaking, this paper comes from the DEEM workshop held in conjunction with SIGMOD, but it sparked my imagination and I ... Continue Reading

Ethically aligned design

March 27, 2017November 11, 2019 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 1 Comment

The IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems. Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision For Prioritizing Wellbeing With Artificial Intelligence And Autonomous Systems, Version 1. IEEE, 2016. http://standards.ieee.org/develop/indconn/ec/autonomous_systems.html. Something a little different for today... the IEEE recently put out a first version of their "Ethically Aligned Design" report for public ... Continue Reading

Artificial Intelligence and life in 2030

November 21, 2016November 11, 2019 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 4 Comments

Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030 Stanford University, 2016 Strictly speaking, this isn’t a research paper, it’s a report from the Stanford University One hundred year study of Artificial Intelligence, “a long-term investigation of the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its influences on people, their communities, and society.” A 100 year study is hard ... Continue Reading

Towards deep symbolic reinforcement learning

October 12, 2016November 11, 2019 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 17 Comments

Towards deep symbolic reinforcement learning Garnelo et al, 2016 Every now and then I read a paper that makes a really strong connection with me, one where I can't stop thinking about the implications and I can't wait to share it with all of you. For me, this is one such paper. In the great ... Continue Reading

Mining and Summarizing Customer Reviews

August 28, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ Leave a comment

Mining and Summarizing Customer Reviews - Hu and Liu 2004 This is the third of the three 'test-of-time' award winners from KDD'15. From the awards page: The paper introduces the problem of summarizing customer reviews and decomposes the problem into the three steps of (1) mining product features (aspects), (2) identifying opinion sentences and their ... Continue Reading

Sirius: An open end-to-end voice and vision personal assistant and its implications for future warehouse scale computers

April 13, 2015 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments

Sirius: An Open end-to-end Voice and Vision Personal Assistant and its Implications for Future Warehouse Scale Computers - Hauswald et al. 2015 Welcome back to The Morning Paper! I hope you managed to catch-up on same of your backlog over the last two weeks since normal service is resumed as of today. To kick things ... Continue Reading

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