Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Department of Computer Science Publishes AXIS Insurance-Sponsored White Paper on Supplementary Cyberrisk Quantification Approach.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Thomas Lukasiewicz awarded AXA Chair in Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Professorship.
We’re releasing an analysis showing that since 2012 the amount of compute needed to train a neural net to the same performance on ImageNet classification has been decreasing by a factor of 2 every 16 months. Compared to 2012, it now takes 44 times less compute to train a neural network to the level of AlexNet (by contrast, Moore’s Law would yield an 11x cost improvement over this period). Our resu
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Oxford University and Amazon Web Services create a test-bed for cloud-based research.
We’re introducing Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles. We’re releasing the model weights and code, along with a tool to explore the generated samples.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Samsung Research UK and the University of Oxford – Collaborating on Knowledge Representation to build User-Oriented AI.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Donation from Mastercard to benefit biometric authentication and advanced technology research.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering University of Oxford signs Memorandum of Understanding with Waseda University.
Vector Welcomes Roxana Sultan as VP, Health April 20, 2020 Vector Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Roxana Sultan to the role of Vice President, Health Roxana will […] The post ROXANA SULTAN, VP, HEALTH appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Launch of new academic centre will help to develop cybersecurity of African countries.
We’ve contributed to a multi-stakeholder report by 58 co-authors at 30 organizations, including the Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Mila, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and Center for Security and Emerging Technologies. This report describes 10 mechanisms to improve the verifiability of claims made about AI system
We’re introducing OpenAI Microscope, a collection of visualizations of every significant layer and neuron of eight vision “model organisms” which are often studied in interpretability. Microscope makes it easier to analyze the features that form inside these neural networks, and we hope it will help the research community as we move towards understanding these complicated systems.
April 12, 2020 Statement from Garth Gibson, President & CEO, Vector Institute “The ability of machine learning tools to identify patterns and make accurate predictions based on large volumes of […] The post Vector Institute to Support Provincial Efforts Against COVID-19 with Computing Infrastructure and Data Science Expertise appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Sir Tony Hoare named as International Federation for Information Processing Fellow.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Professor Georg Gottlob awarded Royal Society Research Professorship.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Nominated for best paper at AAMAS 2020.
April 2, 2020 Hidden Injustice, a recent investigative report by Reuters, revealed how federal civil court rulings obscured the role that pharmaceutical companies played in the rising opioid epidemic. It […] The post How Thomson Reuters uses NLP to enable knowledge workers to make faster and more accurate business decisions appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
April 2, 2020 AI is “the future of growth” according to a recent Accenture research report, AI: Built to Scale. That report, based on a survey of 1500 C-suite executives […] The post Scaling AI: How Accenture bridges research and business to create organization-wide AI capability appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Vector Institute is proud to announce the 2020 candidates for the Vector Institute Postgraduate Affiliate Program. This year’s cohort adds 22 talented researchers to Vector’s ever-growing research community. Established in […] The post Vector Institute welcomes new 2020 postgraduate affiliates appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering DPhil graduate Dominik Peters receives distinguished dissertation award.
Despite the volume of articles about the potential for AI to improve patient outcomes and health care operations, finding information about how to responsibly deploy machine learning models in hospitals […] The post Implementing AI in healthcare: new white paper offers insights for deploying AI-enabled healthcare tools appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
03/19/2020 Good morning Vector, It is hard to have perspective these days. With the coronavirus threat everywhere, filling every news source on the TV, radio, newspaper, and twitter feed with […] The post A message from Garth Gibson to Vector community appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Following the recent White House call to action to the tech community to develop techniques that can answer scientific questions related to COVID-19, a team of Vector researchers have released […] The post Vector researchers release scientific paper search tool to help in fight against COVID-19 appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
By Ian Gormely Data is the fuel that makes AI algorithms work. But good, usable data is not always easy to come by. It’s a problem that Vector Faculty Member […] The post Vector researcher Bo Wang develops a method for harmonizing medical data from multiple hospitals appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering The ‘Digital Twin’ to enable the vision of precision cardiology.
Time has included Surgical Safety Technologies’ OR Black Box on its list of the Best Inventions of 2019. Modelled after an airplane’s black box, the device monitors surgeries by recording […] The post Vector Bronze Sponsor Surgical Safety Technologies lands on Time magazine’s Best Inventions 2019 list appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Hugging Face covering How to generate text: using different decoding methods for language generation with Transformers.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering University of Hong Kong-University of Oxford partnership in Quantum information and computation.
Photo by CDC on Unsplash A recent breakthrough in the global search for a vaccine to the coronavirus has roots in Toronto. On February 15th, a team of researchers from the University of […] The post Coronavirus research breakthrough has Toronto roots appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Oxford team wins Cyber 9/12 London competition.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Marta Kwiatkowska to deliver Lovelace lecture.
Official technical announcement and publication from Hugging Face covering How to train a new language model from scratch using Transformers and Tokenizers.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering New human heart model set to boost future cardiac research and therapies.
Vector Faculty Member David Duvenaud and collaborators have published a new paper, “Scalable Gradients for Stochastic Differential Equations,” in Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. The paper uses backpropagation to fit stochastic […] The post New neural network models offer the potential for better predictions in medicine, finance, and human genetics appeared first on Vector Institute for Art
Photo by Ben Hershey Once viewed as a short-term injury, today concussions are understood as a chronic health issue. They can leave individuals with long-lasting effects on the brain’s electrical […] The post Vector researchers at McMaster use AI to uncover signs of concussions decades after injury appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Niki Trigoni wins CTO of the year award at Women in IT Awards London 2020.
We are standardizing OpenAI’s deep learning framework on PyTorch.
From L-R: Vector Faculty Member Toniann Pitassi, Vector Interns Irene Kameni, Kobby Panford-Quainoo, Fadel Thior, Ines Birimahire, Aisha Alaagib, and Vector Graduate student Elliot Creager By Ian Gormely Eighteen months […] The post Vector hosts internship program for African machine learning students appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from OpenAI covering Scaling laws for neural language models.
Photo by Ousa Chea on Unsplash Vector Faculty Member Marzyeh Ghassemi recently contributed to a Viewpoint article for JAMA online: Challenges to the Reproducibility of Machine Learning Models in Health […] The post Machine learning for healthcare presents new challenges to reproducibility appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering MIT Technology Review names Yarin Gal on their Innovators Under 35 Europe 2019 list.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering In silico heart research making an impact.
Photo: Will Grathwohl (far left) with fellow Vector Institute researchers Jesse Bettencourt, Yulia Rubanova, and Ricky Chen. By Ian Gormely Artificial intelligence is a transformative technology. Yet, much like the […] The post Vector researcher Will Grathwohl wants to lower the barriers to entry to AI appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from OpenAI covering Dota 2 with large scale deep reinforcement learning.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Sam Staton awarded ERC Consolidator Grant.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Waymo acquires Latent Logic to accelerate progress towards safe, driverless vehicles..
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering New Oxford unit created as part of ELLIS effort will assemble AI experts from across Europe.
We show that the double descent phenomenon occurs in CNNs, ResNets, and transformers: performance first improves, then gets worse, and then improves again with increasing model size, data size, or training time. This effect is often avoided through careful regularization. While this behavior appears to be fairly universal, we don’t yet fully understand why it happens, and view further study of thi
A DPhil in Computational Biology who has gone on to work with the FDA and pharmaceutical and medical device companies talks about her time studying at Oxford
We’re releasing Procgen Benchmark, 16 simple-to-use procedurally-generated environments which provide a direct measure of how quickly a reinforcement learning agent learns generalizable skills.
Official technical announcement and publication from OpenAI covering Benchmarking safe exploration in deep reinforcement learning.
We’re releasing Safety Gym, a suite of environments and tools for measuring progress towards reinforcement learning agents that respect safety constraints while training.
An Open Day for prospective doctoral students will be held in the Department of Computer Science on Saturday, 30th November, 2019. <br/>Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Oxford Women in Computer Science Society collaborates with Zilliqa to bring diversity to the forefront of Blockchain.
As the final model release of GPT-2’s staged release, we’re releasing the largest version (1.5B parameters) of GPT-2 along with code and model weights to facilitate detection of outputs of GPT-2 models. While there have been larger language models released since August, we’ve continued with our original staged release plan in order to provide the community with a test case of a full staged release
Vector Institute and Ontario Tech University supporting two hospitals in predictive analytics to detect sepsis in infants through machine learning Toronto – Today, the Vector Institute, an independent, not-for-profit research […] The post Machine learning platform helps enable early diagnosis of life-threatening infection in premature infants appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intel
Announcing a new partnership between Raspberry Pi and the University of Oxford to support the UK Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Best paper at SecureComm19.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Yarin Gal announced as Turing AI Fellow.
International AI talent gathered in Toronto last week to share perspectives on how research and applications are evolving, and how researchers can continue momentum in the field based on historic […] The post AI community celebrates Dr. Geoffrey Hinton at Evolution of Deep Learning Symposium appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering New research uses deep learning to restore ancient Greek texts.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Oxford ranked first in world for Computer Science.
Vector researchers are preparing for the world’s premier machine learning conference, the 33rd annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). A multi-track machine learning and computational neuroscience conference that […] The post Vector Researchers Prepare for 33rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) appeared first on Vector Institute for
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Oxford brings together experts and students from Computer Science and Law to start a new era of interdisciplinary education.
On October 16, 2019 the Vector Institute announced that 29 faculty holding appointments at universities across Ontario have been appointed as Faculty Affiliates at the Vector Institute. Researchers appointed at […] The post Vector Institute Names 29 New Faculty Affiliates appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Strachey Lecture - Dame Wendy Hall.
We’ve trained a pair of neural networks to solve the Rubik’s Cube with a human-like robot hand. The neural networks are trained entirely in simulation, using the same reinforcement learning code as OpenAI Five paired with a new technique called Automatic Domain Randomization (ADR). The system can handle situations it never saw during training, such as being prodded by a stuffed giraffe. This shows
We are now accepting applications for our third class of OpenAI Scholars.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering DeepMind renews commitment to under-represented students at Oxford.
Today, the Vector Institute congratulates our very own Chief Scientific Advisor, Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, for winning the Honda Prize 2019 for his pioneering research in the field of deep learning […] The post Vector’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, wins the Honda Prize 2019 appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
We’ve fine-tuned the 774M parameter GPT-2 language model using human feedback for various tasks, successfully matching the preferences of the external human labelers, though those preferences did not always match our own. Specifically, for summarization tasks the labelers preferred sentences copied wholesale from the input (we’d only asked them to ensure accuracy), so our models learned to copy. S
We’ve observed agents discovering progressively more complex tool use while playing a simple game of hide-and-seek. Through training in our new simulated hide-and-seek environment, agents build a series of six distinct strategies and counterstrategies, some of which we did not know our environment supported. The self-supervised emergent complexity in this simple environment further suggests that m
By Ian Gormely Toronto – Today, the Vector Institute, an independent, not-for-profit research institute focused on leading-edge machine learning, announced the third of its series of Pathfinder Projects to implement […] The post Tick Identification to Combat Lyme Disease appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering ERC Starting Grant awarded to Christoph Haase.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Eighteen Oxford Computer Science papers at NeurIPS-2019.
We’ve developed a method to assess whether a neural network classifier can reliably defend against adversarial attacks not seen during training. Our method yields a new metric, UAR (Unforeseen Attack Robustness), which evaluates the robustness of a single model against an unanticipated attack, and highlights the need to measure performance across a more diverse range of unforeseen attacks.
We’re releasing the 774 million parameter GPT-2 language model after the release of our small 124M model in February, staged release of our medium 355M model in May, and subsequent research with partners and the AI community into the model’s potential for misuse and societal benefit. We’re also releasing an open-source legal agreement to make it easier for organizations to initiate model-sharing p
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering New research on Bluetooth vulnerability.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Scholarship winners for Grace Hopper conference announced.
At OpenAI, each Thursday is Learning Day: a day where employees have the option to self-study technical skills that will make them better at their job but which aren’t being learned from daily work.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering LegalTech startup Genie AI raises £2M to empower lawyers with collective knowledge.
Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to support us building artificial general intelligence (AGI) with widely distributed economic benefits. We’re partnering to develop a hardware and software platform within Microsoft Azure which will scale to AGI. We’ll jointly develop new Azure AI supercomputing technologies, and Microsoft will become our exclusive cloud provider—so we’ll be working hard
Vector’s Second Pathfinder Project to Enhance Radiology with AI Toronto – Today, the Vector Institute, an independent, not-for-profit research institute focused on leading-edge machine learning, announced the second in its […] The post Thousands of Images at the Radiologist’s Fingertips Seeing the Invisible appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering News from Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning Group.
We’ve written a policy research paper identifying four strategies that can be used today to improve the likelihood of long-term industry cooperation on safety norms in AI: communicating risks and benefits, technical collaboration, increased transparency, and incentivizing standards. Our analysis shows that industry cooperation on safety will be instrumental in ensuring that AI systems are safe and
Vector Faculty Affiliate Kyros Kutulakos has won the Best Paper Award at CVPR 2019. Kutulakos, along with his co-authors Shumian Xin, Sotiris Nousias, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan, and […] The post Vector Faculty Affiliate wins top honours at CVPR 2019 appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering MobiUK 2019 hosted by Oxford Computer Science.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Marta Kwiatkowska named as BCS Lovelace Medal Winner 2019.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Sir Nigel Shadbolt to judge Royal Society book prize.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Oxford Computer Science Conference award winners.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Daniel Nichol wins Reinhart Heinrich Award.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering David Rogers awarded MBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Samsung invests in spinout company Oxford Semantic Technologies.
700+ AI master’s students starting programs in 2019 are expected to graduate and enter Ontario’s workforce by 2021 The Vector Institute is pleased to announce that the 2019-20 Vector Scholarship […] The post Vector Institute Announces Second Cohort of Vector Scholarship in AI Recipients appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
We hosted the first OpenAI Robotics Symposium on April 27, 2019.
A student on our part-time professional Masters programme in software and systems security discusses her time studying at Oxford
Our second class of OpenAI Scholars has concluded, with all eight scholars producing an exciting final project showcased at Scholars Demo Day at OpenAI.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Aidan Gomez awarded Open Philanthropy Fellowship.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Klaudia Krawiecka awarded Google Women Techmakers Scholarship.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Collaborative team win Facebook Research ‘Probability and Programming’ research award.
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