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Are humans superior to machines in chess?

A friend of mine, who is an International Master at chess, told me that humans were superior to machines provided you didn't impose the time constraints that exist in competitive chess (40 moves in 2 ...

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What does AI software look like, and how is it different from other software?

What does AI software look like? What is the major difference between AI software and other software?

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What do the subscripts mean in $N_{t,n,\sigma,L}$?

A neural network can apparently be denoted as $N_{t,n,\sigma,L}$. What do these subscripts $t, n, \sigma$ and $L$ mean? Could you link me to a paper, article or webpage with an explanation for this? ...

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How to create an AI to solve a word search?

This at first sounds ridiculous. Of course there is an easy way to write a program to solve a wordsearch. But what I would like to do is write a program that solves a word-search like a human. That ...

deep-learning search architecture reasoning

If an heuristic is not admissible, can it be consistent?

I am solving a problem in which, according to the given values, the heuristic is not admissible. According to my calculation from other similar problems, it should be consistent, as well as keeping in ...

 answered by John Doucette 1 vote

Why does the binary cross-entropy work better than categorical cross-entropy in a multi-class single label problem?

I was just doing a simple NN example with the fashion MNIST dataset, where I was getting 97% accuracy, when I noticed that I was using Binary cross-entropy instead of categorical cross-entropy by ...

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 answered by Michael Hearn 1 vote

Isn't deep fake detection bound to fail?

Deep fakes are a growing concern: the ability to credibly alter a video may have great (negative) impacts on our society. It is so much of a concern, that the biggest tech companies launched a ...

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

Was the corruption of Microsoft's "Tay" chatbot an example of catastrophic forgetting?

Tay was a chatbot, who learned from Twitter users. Microsoft's AI fam from the internet that's got zero chill. The more you talk the smarter Tay gets. — Twitter tagline. Microsoft trained the AI ...

chat-bots history catastrophic-forgetting

How could self-driving cars make ethical decisions about who to kill?

Obviously, self-driving cars aren't perfect, so imagine that the Google car (as an example) got into a difficult situation. Here are a few examples of unfortunate situations caused by a set of ...

philosophy ethics autonomous-vehicles decision-theory

Are the dialogs at Sophia's (the robot) appearings scripted?

I talk about the robot from: Hanson Robotics, which was granted the right to citizenship from Saudi Arabia. I have found the following articles: Your new friend is a humanoid robot source: ...

natural-language-processing applications robots

Permutation invariant neural networks

Given a neural network $f$ that takes as input $n$ data points: $x_1, \dots, x_n$. We say $f$ is permutation invariant if $$f(x_1 ... x_n) = f(pi(x_1 ... x_n))$$ for any permutation $pi$. ...

neural-networks machine-learning reference-request

What sort of mathematical problems are there in AI that people are working on?

I recently got a 18-month postdoc position in a math department. It's a position with relative light teaching duty and a lot of freedom about what type of research that I want to do. Previously I was ...

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What is a Dynamic Computational Graph?

Frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow through TensorFlow Fold support Dynamic Computational Graphs and are receiving attention from data scientists. However, there seems to be a lack of resource to ...

neural-networks

What is a Recurrent Neural Network?

Surprisingly this wasn't asked before - at least I didn't find anything besides some vaguely related questions. So, what is a recurrent neural network, and what are their advantages over regular NNs? ...

recurrent-neural-networks

Are embeddings in multi-lingual language models comparable across languages?

Facebook has just pushed out a bigger version of their multi-lingual language model XLM, called XLM-R. My question is: do these kind of multi-lingual models imply, or even ensure, that their ...

deep-learning natural-language-processing transformer language-model

AlphaGo Zero: Does the policy head give a probability for every possible move?

If I understood correctly, the AlphaGo Zero network returns two values: a vector of logit probabilities p and a value v. My question is: in this vector that it is outputted, do we have a probability ...

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