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Goodbye Prompt Engineering, Hello Prompt Generation: Automatic Prompt Engineer (APE) research summary.
University of Toronto

Goodbye Prompt Engineering, Hello Prompt Generation: Automatic Prompt Engineer (APE) research summary.

When you’re looking for answers from a large language model, some prompts are better than others. So how can you come up with the best one? A new model automates the process.

April 19, 20232 min read
Goodbye Prompt Engineering, Hello Prompt Generation: Automatic Prompt Engineer (APE) research summary.
University of Toronto

Goodbye Prompt Engineering, Hello Prompt Generation: Automatic Prompt Engineer (APE) research summary.

When you’re looking for answers from a large language model, some prompts are better than others. So how can you come up with the best one? A new model automates the process.

April 19, 20232 min read
Deep Unlearning: AI Researchers Teach Models to Unlearn Data
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Deep Unlearning: AI Researchers Teach Models to Unlearn Data

Privacy advocates want deep learning systems to forget what they’ve learned. What’s new: Researchers are seeking ways to remove the influence of particular training examples, such as an individual’s personal information, from a trained model without affecting its performance, Wired reported.

September 1, 20211 min read
Deep Unlearning: AI Researchers Teach Models to Unlearn Data
University of Toronto

Deep Unlearning: AI Researchers Teach Models to Unlearn Data

Privacy advocates want deep learning systems to forget what they’ve learned. What’s new: Researchers are seeking ways to remove the influence of particular training examples, such as an individual’s personal information, from a trained model without affecting its performance, Wired reported.

September 1, 20211 min read
AI Truths, AI Falsehoods: How police used face detection to ID Jan 6 rioters.
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AI Truths, AI Falsehoods: How police used face detection to ID Jan 6 rioters.

Face recognition is being used to identify people involved in last week’s assault on the U.S. Capitol. It’s also being misused to support their cause.

January 13, 20212 min read
AI Truths, AI Falsehoods: How police used face detection to ID Jan 6 rioters.
University of Toronto

AI Truths, AI Falsehoods: How police used face detection to ID Jan 6 rioters.

Face recognition is being used to identify people involved in last week’s assault on the U.S. Capitol. It’s also being misused to support their cause.

January 13, 20212 min read
Pushing for Reproducible Research: Experts criticize Google Health over AI transparency.
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Pushing for Reproducible Research: Experts criticize Google Health over AI transparency.

Controversy erupted over the need for transparency in research into AI for medicine. Google Health introduced a system that purportedly identified breast cancer more accurately than human radiologists.

October 21, 20202 min read
Pushing for Reproducible Research: Experts criticize Google Health over AI transparency.
University of Toronto

Pushing for Reproducible Research: Experts criticize Google Health over AI transparency.

Controversy erupted over the need for transparency in research into AI for medicine. Google Health introduced a system that purportedly identified breast cancer more accurately than human radiologists.

October 21, 20202 min read
When Models Take Shortcuts: The causes of shortcut learning in neural networks
University of Toronto

When Models Take Shortcuts: The causes of shortcut learning in neural networks

Neuroscientists once thought they could train rats to navigate mazes by color. Rats don’t perceive colors at all. Instead, they rely on the distinct odors of different colors of paint. New work finds that neural networks are prone to this sort of misalignment between training goals and learning.

June 3, 20202 min read
When Models Take Shortcuts: The causes of shortcut learning in neural networks
University of Toronto

When Models Take Shortcuts: The causes of shortcut learning in neural networks

Neuroscientists once thought they could train rats to navigate mazes by color. Rats don’t perceive colors at all. Instead, they rely on the distinct odors of different colors of paint. New work finds that neural networks are prone to this sort of misalignment between training goals and learning.

June 3, 20202 min read
Playing With GANs: GameGAN generated a fully functional Pac-Man.
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Playing With GANs: GameGAN generated a fully functional Pac-Man.

Generative adversarial networks don’t just produce pretty pictures. They can build world models, too. A GAN generated a fully functional replica of the classic video game Pac-Man.

May 27, 20202 min read
Playing With GANs: GameGAN generated a fully functional Pac-Man.
University of Toronto

Playing With GANs: GameGAN generated a fully functional Pac-Man.

Generative adversarial networks don’t just produce pretty pictures. They can build world models, too. A GAN generated a fully functional replica of the classic video game Pac-Man.

May 27, 20202 min read
Meeting of the Minds: Deep learning pioneers discuss the state of AI.
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Meeting of the Minds: Deep learning pioneers discuss the state of AI.

Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Yann LeCun presented their latest thinking about deep learning’s limitations and how to overcome them.

February 19, 20202 min read
Meeting of the Minds: Deep learning pioneers discuss the state of AI.
University of Toronto

Meeting of the Minds: Deep learning pioneers discuss the state of AI.

Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Yann LeCun presented their latest thinking about deep learning’s limitations and how to overcome them.

February 19, 20202 min read
Different Skills From Different Demos: Implicit reinforcement without interaction at scale, explained
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Different Skills From Different Demos: Implicit reinforcement without interaction at scale, explained

Reinforcement learning trains models by trial and error. In batch reinforcement learning (BRL), models learn by observing many demonstrations by a variety of actors. But what if one doctor is handier with a scalpel while another excels at suturing?

December 18, 20192 min read

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