Advancing Self-Supervised and Semi-Supervised Learning with SimCLR

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Posted by Ting Chen, Research Scientist, and Geoffrey Hinton, VP & Engineering Fellow, Google Research Recently, natural language proces...

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Measuring creativity: A conversation with Creative Shop Research Manager Lara Andrews - Facebook Research

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At Facebook, research permeates everything we do, from improving our products to using AI to help keep people safe on…

Artificial Intelligence and COVID-19: How Technology Can Understand, Track, and Improve Health Outcomes

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Scholars, practitioners, and experts across disciplines share what’s working and where research can help during HAI's virtual conference.

Tracking COVID-19: Hunting the Virus with Technology, AI, and Analytics

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A Covid-19 taskforce examines a map of the virus’ spread. PHOTO CREDIT: Carlos Barria | Reuters   Experts offer Insights on mapping and forecasting virus cases during Stanford HAI’s COVID-19 and AI Conference.

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#86 - David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning

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David Silver leads the reinforcement learning research group at DeepMind and was lead researcher on AlphaGo, AlphaZero and co-lead on AlphaStar, and MuZero and lot of important work in reinforcement learning. Support this podcast by signing up with these sponsors: – MasterClass: – Cash App – use code “LexPodcast” and download: – Cash App (App Store): – Cash...

Robots Learning to Move like Animals

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The BAIR Blog

Exploring Nature-Inspired Robot Agility

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Posted by Xue Bin (Jason) Peng, Student Researcher and Sehoon Ha, Research Scientist, Robotics at Google Whether it’s a dog chasing afte...

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Announcing the 2020 Image Matching Benchmark and Challenge

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Posted by Eduard Trulls, Research Scientist, Google Maps Reconstructing 3D objects and buildings from a series of images is a well-known...

A Step Towards Protecting Patients from Medication Errors

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Posted by Kathryn Rough, Research Scientist and Alvin Rajkomar, MD, Google Health While no doctor, nurse, or pharmacist wants to make a ...

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Improving Audio Quality in Duo with WaveNetEQ

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Posted by Pablo Barrera, Software Engineer, Google Research and Florian Stimberg, Research Engineer, DeepMind Online calls have become a...

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#85 - Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe

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Roger Penrose is physicist, mathematician, and philosopher at University of Oxford. He has made fundamental contributions in many disciplines from the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology to the limitations of a computational view of consciousness. Support this podcast by signing up with these sponsors: – ExpressVPN at – Cash App – use code “LexPodcast” and download: –...

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#84 - William MacAskill: Effective Altruism

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William MacAskill is a philosopher, ethicist, and one of the originators of the effective altruism movement. His research focuses on the fundamentals of effective altruism – the use of evidence and reason to help others by as much as possible with our time and money, with a particular concentration on how to act given moral uncertainty. He is the author...

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BERT, ELMo, & GPT-2: How contextual are contextualized word representations?

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Incorporating context into word embeddings - as exemplified by BERT, ELMo, and GPT-2 - has proven to be a watershed idea in NLP. Replacing static vectors (e.g., word2vec) with contextualized word representations has led to significant improvements on virtually every NLP task.

Physically Realistic Attacks on Deep Reinforcement Learning

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The BAIR Blog

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Exploring New Ways to Support Faculty Research

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Posted by Maggie Johnson, VP, Google Research For the past 15 years, the Google Faculty Research Award Program has helped support world-c...

#83 - Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence

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Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at University of Oxford and the director of the Future of Humanity Institute. He has worked on fascinating and important ideas in existential risks, simulation hypothesis, human enhancement ethics, and the risks of superintelligent AI systems, including in his book Superintelligence. I can see talking to Nick multiple times on this podcast, many hours each...

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A Neural Weather Model for Eight-Hour Precipitation Forecasting

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Posted by Nal Kalchbrenner and Casper Sønderby, Research Scientists, Google Research, Amsterdam Predicting weather from minutes to weeks...

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Lex Fridman #1: Seven Levels of Coronavirus Attack and How We Can Fight Back

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The coronavirus pandemic is a global tragedy, but it is also a moment that unites us, that reveals the strength of our community, the human capacity to be compassionate to each other and to work hard in the face of danger. In this episode I describe what, to me, might be 7 levels of attack on our society and how...

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Automated speech recognition less accurate for blacks

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The disparity likely occurs because such technologies are based on machine learning systems that rely heavily on databases of English as spoken by white Americans.

Massively Scaling Reinforcement Learning with SEED RL

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Posted by Lasse Espeholt, Research Engineer, Google Research, Amsterdam Reinforcement learning (RL) has seen impressive advances over th...

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Adversarial Learning: Adversarial Distancing - Episode 1

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in which Joel and Andrew briefly break quarantine to talk about Covid-19, social distancing, and the data science grift

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#82 - Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game

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Simon Sinek is an author of several books including Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, and his latest The Infinite Game. He is one of the best communicators of what it takes to be a good leader, to inspire, and to build businesses that solve big difficult challenges. Support this podcast by signing up with these sponsors: – MasterClass: ...

Coping with COVID

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These are unprecedented times. So far, I have managed to avoid watching movies that involved pandemics or germs; paranoia and panic was not a source of entertainment for me. But now we see one play…

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Visual Transfer Learning for Robotic Manipulation

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Posted by Yen-Chen Lin, Research Intern and Andy Zeng, Research Scientist, Robotics at Google The idea that robots can learn to directl...

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Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering

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Anca Dragan is a professor at Berkeley, working on human-robot interaction — algorithms that look beyond the robot’s function in isolation, and generate robot behavior that accounts for interaction and coordination with human beings. Support this podcast by supporting the sponsors and using the special code: – Download Cash App on the App Store or Google Play & use code...

When Humans Aren’t Optimal: Robots that Collaborate with Risk-Aware Humans

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A key component of human-robot collaboration is the ability for robots to predict human behavior. Robots do this by building models of human decision making. One way to model humans is to pretend that they are also robots, and assume users will always choose the optimal action that leads to the best outcomes. It’s also possible to account for human...

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Introducing Dreamer: Scalable Reinforcement Learning Using World Models

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Posted by Danijar Hafner, Student Researcher, Google Research Research into how artificial agents can choose actions to achieve goals is...

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Does On-Policy Data Collection Fix Errors in Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning?

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The BAIR Blog

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#80 - Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money

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Vitalik Buterin is co-creator of Ethereum and ether, which is a cryptocurrency that is currently the second-largest digital currency after bitcoin. There’s about 110 million ether out there, which equates at this moment to about 22 trillion dollars. Ethereum has a lot of interesting technical ideas that are defining the future of blockchain technology, and Vitalik is one of the...

Visualizing Neural Networks with the Grand Tour

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By focusing on linear dimensionality reduction, we show how to visualize many dynamic phenomena in neural networks.

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Fast and Easy Infinitely Wide Networks with Neural Tangents

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Posted by Samuel S. Schoenholz, Senior Research Scientist and Roman Novak, Research Engineer, Google Research The widespread success of ...

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Soli Radar-Based Perception and Interaction in Pixel 4

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Posted by Jaime Lien, Research Engineer and Nicholas Gillian, Software Engineer, Google Advanced Technology and Projects The Pixel 4 and...

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Self-Development: How I Couldn’t Wear Two Hats and Found Third One

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Hi all! I lead antispam team and several machine learning teams at Group. The subject of this article is self-development for team…

BADGR:The Berkeley Autonomous Driving Ground Robot

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The BAIR Blog

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Real-Time 3D Object Detection on Mobile Devices with MediaPipe

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Posted by Adel Ahmadyan and Tingbo Hou, Software Engineers, Google Research Object detection is an extensively studied computer vision p...

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More Efficient NLP Model Pre-training with ELECTRA

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Posted by Kevin Clark, Student Researcher and Thang Luong, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research, Brain Team Recent advances in langu...

Introducing Facebook’s Gender Disaggregated Displacement Maps - Facebook Research

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The next decade is critical to make progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of shared goals to…

Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits

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By studying the connections between neurons, we can find meaningful algorithms in the weights of neural networks.

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Announcing TensorFlow Quantum: An Open Source Library for Quantum Machine Learning

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Posted by Alan Ho, Product Lead and Masoud Mohseni, Technical Lead, Google Research “Nature isn’t classical, damnit, so if you want to m...

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#79 - Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

lexfridman.com on 7 March

Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist, co-inventor of loop quantum gravity, and a contributor of many interesting ideas to cosmology, quantum field theory, the foundations of quantum mechanics, theoretical biology, and the philosophy of science. He is the author of several books including one that critiques the state of physics and string theory called The Trouble with Physics, and his...

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Measuring Compositional Generalization

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Posted by Marc van Zee, Software Engineer, Google Research People are capable of learning the meaning of a new word and then applying it...

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#78 - Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science

lexfridman.com on 5 March

Ann Druyan is the writer, producer, director, and one of the most important and impactful communicators of science in our time. She co-wrote the 1980 science documentary series Cosmos hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981, and her love for whom, with the help of NASA, was recorded as brain waves on a golden record along with other...

Speeding Up Transformer Training and Inference By Increasing Model Size

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The BAIR Blog

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Toward Human-Centered Design for ML Frameworks

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Posted by Carrie J. Cai, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research and Philip J. Guo, Assistant Professor, UC San Diego As machine lear...

#77 - Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science

lexfridman.com on 3 March

Alex Garland is a writer and director of many imaginative and philosophical films from the dreamlike exploration of human self-destruction in the movie Annihilation to the deep questions of consciousness and intelligence raised in the movie Ex Machina, which to me is one of the greatest movies on artificial intelligence ever made. I’m releasing this podcast to coincide with the...

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#76 - John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology

lexfridman.com on 29 February

John Hopfield is professor at Princeton, whose life’s work weaved beautifully through biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and physics. Most crucially, he saw the messy world of biology through the piercing eyes of a physicist. He is perhaps best known for his work on associate neural networks, now known as Hopfield networks that were one of the early ideas that catalyzed the...

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Ultra-High Resolution Image Analysis with Mesh-TensorFlow

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Posted by Le Hou and Youlong Cheng, Software Engineers, Google Research Deep neural network models form the backbone of most state-of-th...

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Queer Exceptionalism in Science

blog.shakirm.com on 27 February

Written during the 2020 LGBTQ History Month Remembrance that takes place during February each year in the UK.Read in 5mins (800 words) Today’s queer scientist is exceptional. Exceptional as in extr…

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Enforcing our Community Standards: How we track and measure progress - Facebook Research

research.fb.com on 26 February

We sat down with Irina Somin, Facebook Technical Program Manager, to learn more about all the work that goes into enforcing our Community Standards.

Open Images V6 — Now Featuring Localized Narratives

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Posted by Jordi Pont-Tuset, Research Scientist, Google Research Open Images is the largest annotated image dataset in many regards, for...