By making text-based games more accessible to RL agents, Jericho framework opens up exciting natural language challenges
| Matthew Hausknecht, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Eric Yuan, and Prithviraj Ammanabrolu
You’re in a field. In front of you, there’s a white house. The door is boarded shut. The immediate challenge—investigate the house. The game—Zork I: The Great Underground Empire, a treasure-seeking adventure in which you’ll encounter monsters, a thief, and…
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Ground control to major policy makers: Unlocking user-centric AI’s potential for development – Part 2
Until now, AI classifications have been out of reach for most local government stakeholders across both the developed and developing world. Leveraging AI techniques has meant bringing in specialized cooks and hardware, and these barriers mean that the exposure and…
Jannes Gladrow, AI Resident Hey! My name is Jannes Gladrow and I am an AI resident at MSR Cambridge (UK). In this blog post, I want to talk about how I got here. The path behind me is not direct but curved…
Are all samples created equal?: Boosting generative models via importance weighting
| Aditya Grover
There is a growing interest in the use of deep generative models for sampling high-dimensional data; examples include high-resolution natural images, long-form text generation, designing pharmaceutical drugs, and creating new materials at the molecular level. Training these models is, however,…
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Understanding Azure Arc
One of the more interesting announcements at Microsoft’s 2019 Ignite conference was Azure Arc, a new management tool for hybrid cloud application infrastructures. Building on Azure concepts, Arc is designed to allow you to manage on-premises resources from the Azure…
This tutorial will summarize several decades of work on human-AI interaction, starting with decision-theoretic fundamentals and extending through our recent work, that proposed 18 generally applicable guidelines for human-AI interaction in an effort to drive the development of human-centered AI…
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Ground control to major policy makers: Unlocking user-centric AI’s potential for development – Part 1
Today, different satellite constellations capture an image of every place on Earth at least once a day. These satellite images can help local actors better understand and make decisions based on what is happening on the ground. Whether for infrastructure…