Is Texas Hold’em Poker the Newest Game AI has Defeated?
ModelingAIArtificial Intelligenceposted by Caspar Wylie, ODSC October 11, 2018
Experimenting with games is an excellent way to better our understanding of deep learning. In recent years, AI has famously become the best player in a number of games such as Go, Backgammon, and Chess. However, all these games are known to have perfect information. For each player, nothing... Read more
Innovators and Regulators Collaborate on Book Tackling AI’s Black Box Problem
Tech UpdatesAIArtificial Intelligenceblack boxposted by Alex Detmering October 9, 2018
AI’s Biggest Compliance Hurdle If you’re in data science, machine learning, or AI, you’ve probably heard of the “black box” problem. In short, it is the regulatory and implementation barriers caused by the un-explainability of sophisticated AI. Why are sophisticated AI systems so hard to explain? Because, for the... Read more
The Importance of Explainable AI
Accelerate AIAIArtificial Intelligenceexplainable AIposted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC September 6, 2018
AI algorithms can be trained to perform many disparate tasks, but these systems often are opaque and operate in a black box, meaning users don’t always know how decisions are being made. AI-powered systems, frequently using deep learning methods, can be given extraordinarily complex tasks and can make great... Read more
Can You Make Your System Smarter Than a 4th Grader? Using AI to Answer Questions
ConferencesModelingArtificial IntelligenceODSC East 2017posted by Jacquelyn Elias, ODSC September 5, 2018
You may be smarter than a fifth grader, but the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is training its machines to be smarter than a fourth grader in science in the Aristo Project, an artificial intelligence-based question answering system. In his lecture at ODSC East 2017, Joel Grus, a research... Read more
Hype or Not? Some Perspective on OpenAI’s DotA 2 Bot
Accelerate AIBlogDeep LearningArtificial Intelligenceposted by Denny Britz August 22, 2017
See the Hacker News Discussion for additional context. Update (August 17th, 2017): OpenAI has published a blog post with more details about the bot. Almost everything of the post below still holds true, however. OpenAI’s post is sparse on technical details as they “not ready to talk about agent... Read more
