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An AI Miracle Malcontent
The stark success of OpenAI’s GPT4 model surprised me shifting my view from “really good autocomplete” (roughly inline with intuitions here) to a dialog agent exhibiting a significant scope...
ICML 2021 Invited Speakers — ML for Science
By: Stefanie Jegelka and Ameet Talwalkar (ICML21 Communication Chairs) With ICML 2021 underway, we wanted to briefly highlight the upcoming invited talks. A general theme of the invited talks thi...
ALT Highlights – An Interview with Joelle Pineau
Welcome to ALT Highlights, a series of blog posts spotlighting various happenings at the recent conference ALT 2021, including plenary talks, tutorials, trends in learning theory, and more! To re...
What is the Right Response to Employer Misbehavior in Research?
I enjoyed my conversations with Timnit when she was in the MSR-NYC lab, so her situation has been on my mind throughout NeurIPS. Piecing together what happened second-hand is always tricky, but J...
Experiments with the ICML 2020 Peer-Review Process
This post is cross-listed on the CMU ML blog. The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) is a flagship machine learning conference that in 2020 received 4,990 submissions and manage...
HOMER: Provable Exploration in Reinforcement Learning
Last week at ICML 2020, Mikael Henaff, Akshay Krishnamurthy, John Langford and I had a paper on a new reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm that solves three key problems in RL: (i) global ex...
Critical issues in digital contract tracing
I spent the last month becoming a connoisseur of digital contact tracing approaches since this seems like something where I might be able to help. Many other people have been thinking along simil...
What is the most effective policy response to the new coronavirus pandemic?
Disclaimer: I am not an epidemiologist, but there is an interesting potentially important pattern in the data that seems worth understanding. World healthcare authorities appear to be primarily s...
Coronavirus and Machine Learning Conferences
I’ve been following the renamed COVID-19 epidemic closely since potential exponentials deserve that kind of attention. The last few days have convinced me it’s a good idea to start making con...
Updates for the new decade
This blog has been quiet for the last year. I have quite a bit to write about but found myself often out of time between work at Microsoft, ICML duties, and family life. Nevertheless, I expect to...