AI safety needs social scientists
OpenAI published a paper asserting social scientists are critical for long-term AI safety, alignment, and addressing human psychology.
OpenAI News·19 Feb
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OpenAI published a paper asserting social scientists are critical for long-term AI safety, alignment, and addressing human psychology.
OpenAI announced a new unsupervised language model achieving state-of-the-art performance across multiple NLP tasks without task-specific training.
The OMSCS CS6601 Artificial Intelligence course review emphasizes starting with simple solutions before adding intelligence.
OpenAI concluded its first 6-month Fellows program in Summer 2018, transforming ML beginners into contributors for final projects.
OpenAI research identifies gradient noise as a predictor for neural network training parallelizability, suggesting future utility of larger batch sizes.
OpenAI published early research on iterated amplification, a technique for AI systems to learn complex goals by decomposing tasks into simpler sub-tasks.
OpenAI opened applications for its second Scholars program in 2019, offering stipends and mentorship for deep learning study and open-source projects.
OpenAI announced a call for applications for their 2019 Fellows and Interns programs, seeking new talent for research and development.
OpenAI's inaugural Scholars program concluded, with participants showcasing final projects in various AI research areas.
OpenAI Five lost to top human players in Dota 2 at The International 2018, holding an early lead in both matches.
OpenAI's Dota 2 AI, OpenAI Five, defeated a team of professional players in a best-of-three match, demonstrating advanced multi-agent coordination.
OpenAI announced its first class of Scholars, a program to transition experienced software developers into machine learning practitioners.
OpenAI's Dota 2 bot, OpenAI Five, concluded its public benchmark matches. This marks the end of a long-running, high-profile RL project.
OpenAI trained an RL agent to achieve a high score on Montezuma’s Revenge from a single human demonstration, using PPO.
OpenAI accepted applications for its compensated 6-month AI research fellowship program in Fall 2018.
OpenAI proposes 'AI safety via debate' technique, training AI agents to debate topics with human judges to determine winners.
OpenAI hosted its first hackathon with 100 AI community members, focusing on new applications and developer engagement.
OpenAI launched a 3-month deep learning scholarship for 6-10 individuals from underrepresented groups, including mentorship and open-source project development.
OpenAI hosted a hackathon and talks at its San Francisco office on March 3rd, focusing on developer engagement and community building.
OpenAI announced new donors, signaling continued investment in its research and development efforts.
OpenAI co-authored a paper forecasting AI misuse by malicious actors and potential mitigation strategies with academic and policy partners.
OpenAI published research on a method for AIs to teach each other using human-interpretable examples, improving concept transfer.
OpenAI developed a neural network system for entity disambiguation by categorizing words into 100 automatically discovered, non-exclusive types.
OpenAI published 'Requests for Research 2.0,' outlining seven unsolved AI problems from their internal research, seeking external solutions.
Eugene Yan reviewed OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning), emphasizing fundamental techniques and new developments in ML.
OpenAI released GPU kernels for block-sparse neural networks, claiming orders of magnitude speedup over standard libraries for certain architectures.
OpenAI research on L0 regularization for sparse neural networks could enable more efficient, smaller models without significant performance loss.
OpenAI reports competitive self-play enables AI to discover complex physical skills in simulated environments, building on Dota 2 results.
OpenAI released new implementations for reinforcement learning algorithms ACKTR and A2C, claiming ACKTR is more sample-efficient.
OpenAI open-sourced RL-Teacher, an interface for training AIs using occasional human feedback rather than predefined reward functions.
OpenAI released Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), a reinforcement learning algorithm noted for simplicity and performance, now their default RL method.
OpenAI demonstrated adversarial images that consistently fool neural network classifiers across multiple scales and perspectives, challenging prior claims.
OpenAI and DeepMind collaborated on an algorithm that infers human preferences by comparing two proposed AI behaviors, aiming to remove the need for explicit goal functions.
OpenAI open-sourced Baselines, its internal reinforcement learning algorithms, starting with DQN and three variants for replication.
OpenAI published research on Stochastic Neural Networks for hierarchical reinforcement learning.
OpenAI demonstrated a robot trained in simulation to detect physical 'spam' (junk mail) in a real-world environment.
OpenAI research explores agents developing their own language, demonstrating emergent communication protocols in multi-agent environments.
OpenAI published a blog post explaining adversarial examples, how they work, and the challenges in securing systems against them.
Eugene Yan details best practices for deploying machine learning models into production via API, focusing on MLOps and infrastructure.
OpenAI research details adversarial attacks on neural network policies, demonstrating vulnerabilities in AI agent decision-making.
OpenAI announced it will run most of its large-scale model training experiments on Microsoft Azure.
OpenAI research on semi-supervised knowledge transfer aims to improve model performance by leveraging private data without direct exposure.
OpenAI hosted its first self-organizing machine learning conference with 150+ practitioners, aiming to foster community-driven research.
OpenAI highlights the importance of deep learning infrastructure and claims open-source ecosystems enable anyone to build robust systems.
OpenAI, Google Brain, Berkeley, and Stanford co-authored a paper on 'Concrete Problems in AI Safety,' outlining research challenges for safe ML system operation.
OpenAI releases public beta of Gym, a toolkit with environments for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms.
OpenAI research on weight normalization could accelerate deep neural network training; specific impact on large models or G-SIB use cases not detailed.
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