Questions tagged [ai-design]
For questions related to the design of AI agents, algorithms, or models. If your question is about designing neural networks, reward functions, or fitness functions, you can use the associated more specific tags "neural-network-design", "reward-design" and "fitness-design", respectively.
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Are there any ongoing projects which use the Stack Exchange for machine learning?
Are there any ongoing AI projects which use the Stack Exchange for machine learning?
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When should I use Reinforcement Learning vs PID Control?
When designing solutions to problems such as the Lunar Lander on OpenAIGym, Reinforcement Learning is a tempting means of giving the agent adequate action control so as to successfully land.
But ...
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How to define states in reinforcement learning?
I am studying reinforcement learning and the variants of it. I am starting to get an understanding of how the algorithms work and how they apply to an MDP.
What I don't understand is the process of ...
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Why does the policy network in AlphaZero work?
In AlphaZero, the policy network (or head of the network) maps game states to a distribution of the likelihood of taking each action. This distribution covers all possible actions from that state.
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How should I encode the structure of a neural network into a genome?
For a deterministic problem space, I need to find a neural network with the optimal node and link structure. I want to use a genetic algorithm to simulate many neural networks to find the best network ...
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How can Viv generate new code based on some user's query?
I have been looking into Viv, an artificial intelligent agent in development. Here is a demonstration of Viv (by Dag Kittlaus).
Based on what I understand, this AI can generate new code and execute it ...
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How can these 7 AI problem characteristics help me decide on an approach to a problem?
If this list1 can be used to classify problems in AI ...
Decomposable to smaller or easier problems
Solution steps can be ignored or undone
Predictable problem universe
Good solutions are ...
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How do I keep track of already visited states in breadth-first search?
I was trying to implement the breadth-first search (BFS) algorithm for the sliding blocks puzzle (number type). Now, the main thing I noticed is that, if you have a $4 \times 4$ board, the number of ...
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Using AI to extend an imagine pattern
I have created some nice patterns using the MidJourney tool. I'd like to find a way to extend these patterns, and I was thinking about an AI tool that takes one of these patterns and extends it in all ...
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Is there a trade-off between flexibility and efficiency?
A "general intelligence" may be capable of learning a lot of different things, but possessing capability does not equal actually having it. The "AGI" must learn...and that learning process can take ...
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Is analogy necessary to artificial general intelligence?
Analogies are quite powerful in communication. They allow explaining complex concepts to people with no domain knowledge, just by mapping to a known domain. Hofstadter says they matter, whereas ...
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Do I need classification or regression to predict the availability of a user given some features?
While studying data mining methods I have come to understand that there are two main categories:
Predictive methods:
Classification
Regression
Descriptive methods:
Clustering
Association rules
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Do self-driving cars resort to randomness to make decisions?
I recently heard someone make a statement that when you're designing a self-driving car, you're not building a car but really a computerized driver, so you're trying to model a human mind -- at least ...
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What are ontologies in AI?
What exactly are ontologies in AI? How should I write them and why are they important?
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Can the English language ever be generalized using a set of grammar rules?
In programming languages, there is a set of grammar rules which govern the construction of valid statements and expressions. These rules help in parsing the programs written by the user.
Can there ...
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How should I represent the input to a neural network for the games of tic-tac-toe, checkers or chess?
I've been reading a lot about TD-Gammon recently as I'm exploring options for AI in a video game I'm making. The video game is a turn-based positional sort of game, i.e. a "units", or game ...
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Is Nassim Taleb right about AI not being able to accurately predict certain types of distributions?
So Taleb has two heuristics to generally describe data distributions. One is Mediocristan, which basically means things that are on a Gaussian distribution such as height and/or weight of people.
The ...
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How would one implement a multi-agent environment with asynchronous action and rewards per agent?
In a single agent environment, the agent takes an action, then observes the next state and reward:
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How do I create an AI for a two-players board game?
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I want to create an artificial intelligence to compete against other players in a board game.
Game explanation
I have a board game similar to 'snakes and ladders'. You have to get to a final ...
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Is there a central focus on the communication methods between AI and humans?
AI is developing at a rapid pace and is becoming very sophisticated. One aspect will include the methods of interaction between AI and humans.
Currently the interaction is an elementary interaction ...
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What technologies are needed for a self-driving car?
Google, Tesla or Apple have all built or are building their own self-driving cars. As an expert in a related area, I am interested in knowing at a high level, the systems and techniques that go into ...
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How can I solve the zero subset sum problem with hill climbing?
I want to solve the zero subset sum problem with the hill-climbing algorithm, but I am not sure I found a good state space for this.
Here is the problem: consider we have a set of numbers and we want ...
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Which predictive algorithm can be used to predict a number given other numbers?
I am currently searching for a supervised learning algorithm that can be used to predict the output given a large enough training set.
Here's a simple example. Suppose the training dataset is ...
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How to turn a ternary constraint into three binary constraints?
I'm trying to solve problem 6.6 from the book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, by Peter Norvig and Stuart Russell.
This is in the context of Constraint Satisfaction Problem and how you can ...
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How important is true randomness in AI designs?
How important is true (non-pseudo) randomness in Artificial Intelligence designs? Is there any chance that pseudo-randomness could be a barrier to more successful designs?
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What is the relationship between robustness and adversarial machine learning?
I have been reading a lot of articles on adversarial machine learning and there are mentions of "best practices for robust machine learning".
A specific example of this would be when there are ...
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Given two neural networks that compute two functions $f(x)$ and $g(x)$, how can I create a neural network that computes $f(x)g(x)$?
I have two functions $f(x)$ and $g(x)$, and each of them can be computed with a neural network $\phi_f$ and $\phi_g$.
My question is, how can I write a neural net for $f(x)g(x)$?
So, for example, if $...
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Suicide Predictor and Locator
Suicide is on the increase in my country and most victims tend to leave early traces from text messages, social media accounts, search engine queries. So I came up with the idea to develop an AI ...
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What does it mean to do multi-dimensional processing with tensors in tensor cores?
In some tweets about NeurIPS 2018, this video from NVIDIA appeared. At around 0.37, she says:
If you think about the current computations in our deep learning systems, they are all based on Linear ...
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Two data classes for a convolutional neural network, can one have a LOT more images for training than the other?
I have two classes in the training set: one that has images with a feature and the other of images without that feature.
Can there be a LOT more images with "no feature" so I can fit in all possible ...
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Can an AI be made to maintain a train of thought?
This mostly refers to human-like or chatbot AI, but could maybe be used in other applications (math or something?).
Basically, it occurred to me, that when I'm thinking or speaking, there is a ...
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Given enough computational resources, do we currently have any algorithms which could achieve AI?
Hypothetically, assume that you have access to infinite computing power. Do we have designs for any brute-force algorithms that can find an AI capable of passing traditional tests (e.g. Turing, ...
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Are there real applications of fuzzy logic?
This question covers in detail, what fuzzy logic is and how it relates to other math fields, such as boolean algebra and sets theory.
This question is also very related, but the answers are focused ...
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Why do we need both the validation set and test set?
I know that this has been asked a hundred times before, however, I was not able to find a question (and an answer) which actually answered what I wanted to know, respectively, which explained it in a ...
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What should we do when we have equal observations with different labels?
Suppose we have a labeled data set with columns $A$, $B$, and $C$ and a binary outcome variable $X$. Suppose we have rows as follows:
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Should the prediction of the body temperature given a camera image be modelled as classification or regression?
I am fairly new to deep learning in general and I am currently facing a problem I want to solve using neural networks and I am unsure if it is a classification or regression problem. I am aware that ...
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Why is AI safety so much harder than Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"?
I understand that AI researchers are trying to create AI designs that allow for desired behavior without undesirable side-effects. A classic example of an attempt is Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of ...
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Should I repeat lengthy deep learning experiments to average results ? How to decide how many times to repeat?
I am doing my MSc thesis on deep learning. My model takes many hours to train. Part of what I do is trying different parameters and settings hoping that they will achieve different results. But I ...
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What type of neural network would be most feasible for playing a realtime game?
For implementing a neural network algorithm that can play air hockey, I had two ideas for input, and I'm trying to figure out which design would be most viable.
The output must be two analog values ...
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How to define an action space when an agent can take multiple sub-actions in a step?
I'm attempting to design an action space in OpenAI's gym and hitting the following roadblock. I've looked at this post which is closely related but subtly different.
The environment I'm writing needs ...
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Feasibility of an AI assistant to expedite game development?
Basically, an AI that can create, rig, and texture 3d models and game environments (by extrapolating from collections of reference models, according to user input), and that can set up physics and ...
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Context-based gap-fill face posture-mapper GAN
These images are handmade, not auto-generated like they will be in production. Apologies for inaccuracies in the graph overlay.
I am trying to build an AI like that displayed in the diagram: when ...
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State of the art and possible development of judging AIs in laws field
I'd like a general explanation of that in AIs that were to mimic judges, prosecutors or lawyers, on very general terms they would act on this way for each case:
A judge AI would give a verdict, ...
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Will we be able to build an artificial intelligence that feels empathy?
Nowadays, robots or artificial agents often only perform the specific task they have been programmed to do.
Will we be able to build an artificial intelligence that feels empathy, that understands ...
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Which methods or algorithms to develop a learning application?
I am creating a game application that will generate a new level based on the performance of the user in the previous level.
The application is regarding language improvement, to be precise. Suppose ...
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When we are working on an AI project, does the context (academia, industry or competition) make the process different?
When we are working on an AI project, does the domain/context (academia, industry, or competition) make the process different?
For example, I see in the competition most participants even winners use ...
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Are Neural Net architectures accidental discoveries?
Recently, I have been learning about new neural networks, which are used for specialized purposes, like speech recognition, image recognition, etc. The more I discover the more I get amazed by the ...
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How can I design an AI that knows when its being spoken to?
I am trying to make an intelligent agent similar to Jarvis from Iron Man, but much less complex. However, I want my AI to be able to determine if I am talking to it or not. So, I plan on having it ...
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How would an AI work out this question?
I am trying to create an AI that makes reasonable guesses at truths of statements. However...
Human: "Prove that no number exists which is one more than a billion."
AI: "Is it true for the number 1? ...
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What approach should I use to detect faces in video game footage?
I have set myself the challenge of detecting the locations of players/bots in videos of a well known first person shooter game (this is for a youtube series I'm planning on doing). I'm not sure which ...
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