Our second class of OpenAI Fellows has wrapped up, with each Fellow going from a machine learning beginner to core OpenAI contributor in the course of a 6-month apprenticeship. We are currently reviewing applications on a rolling basis for our next round of OpenAI Fellows Summer 2019.
By Ian Gormely Artificial intelligence, particularly the fields of machine learning and deep learning, are disrupting nearly every sector imaginable—even the world of art. Still, many artists are embracing the […] The post Vector Faculty take new musical style transfer model to ICLR appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Machine learning being deployed at St. Michael’s Hospital to provide early warning for patients at risk of transfer to intensive care unit (ICU) By Ian Gormely Toronto – Today, the […] The post Vector Institute kicks off series of Pathfinder Projects focused on health AI adoption appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from OpenAI covering Transfer of adversarial robustness between perturbation types.
We’ve created MuseNet, a deep neural network that can generate 4-minute musical compositions with 10 different instruments, and can combine styles from country to Mozart to the Beatles. MuseNet was not explicitly programmed with our understanding of music, but instead discovered patterns of harmony, rhythm, and style by learning to predict the next token in hundreds of thousands of MIDI files. Mus
We’ve developed the Sparse Transformer, a deep neural network which sets new records at predicting what comes next in a sequence—whether text, images, or sound. It uses an algorithmic improvement of the attention mechanism to extract patterns from sequences 30x longer than possible previously.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Marta Kwiatkowska one of five Oxford academics who have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society for their exceptional contributions to science..
The Department of Computer Science is very sad to announce the death of Professor Stephen Cameron.
OpenAI Five is the first AI to beat the world champions in an esports game, having won two back-to-back games versus the world champion Dota 2 team, OG, at Finals this weekend. Both OpenAI Five and DeepMind’s AlphaStar had previously beaten good pros privately but lost their live pro matches, making this also the first time an AI has beaten esports pros on livestream.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Zhinuo Jenny Wang awarded JGP poster prize at Gordon Research Conference (2019) - Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering First-year student team reach World Final of International Collegiate Programming Contest.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering LICS Symposium success.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering New research using theoretical computer science to understand evolution.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Computer Science academics at Tokyo Alumni event.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering UK launches National Centre of Excellence for IoT Systems Cybersecurity.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Marta Kwiatkowska has been awarded a five year 2.4m euro ERC Advanced Grant FUN2MODEL.
Today, Vector’s very own Chief Scientific Advisor, Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, received computer science’s top distinction, the ACM A.M. Turing Award, for his foundational research in deep learning, neural networks, and […] The post Vector Institute’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, receives ACM A.M. Turing Award alongside Dr. Yoshua Bengio and Dr. Yann LeCun. appeared first on Vector Inst
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering UNIQ+ Summer School.
We’ll be holding our final live event for OpenAI Five at 11:30am PT on April 13.
On Friday, February 22, 2019, the Vector Institute held its first-ever Research Symposium and Job Fair – one of the largest gatherings of machine learning talent across Canada. The one-day […] The post Researchers and professionals from coast to coast descend on Vector for first Research Symposium and Job Fair appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
March 25, 2019 The Vector Institute congratulates the newest members of its research community on being accepted into the 2019 Vector Institute Postgraduate Affiliate Program. Established in 2018, the program […] The post VECTOR INSTITUTE WELCOMES NEW POSTGRADUATE AFFILIATES TO ITS GROWING RESEARCH COMMUNITY appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
We’ve made progress towards stable and scalable training of energy-based models (EBMs) resulting in better sample quality and generalization ability than existing models. Generation in EBMs spends more compute to continually refine its answers and doing so can generate samples competitive with GANs at low temperatures, while also having mode coverage guarantees of likelihood-based models. We hope
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Jennie Charlton wins 2019 Most Improved Apprentice Award.
Our class of eight scholars (out of 550 applicants) brings together collective expertise in literature, philosophy, cell biology, statistics, economics, quantum physics, and business innovation.
We’ve created OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company that allows us to rapidly increase our investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize our mission.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering New Centre for Doctoral Training in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems (AIMS).
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Dave Gavaghan appointed as University Advocate for Research Staff Development.
We’ve created activation atlases (in collaboration with Google researchers), a new technique for visualizing what interactions between neurons can represent. As AI systems are deployed in increasingly sensitive contexts, having a better understanding of their internal decision-making processes will let us identify weaknesses and investigate failures.
We’re releasing a Neural MMO, a massively multiagent game environment for reinforcement learning agents. Our platform supports a large, variable number of agents within a persistent and open-ended task. The inclusion of many agents and species leads to better exploration, divergent niche formation, and greater overall competence.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering WCIT Outstanding IT Student Awards 2019.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Team wins Distinguished Poster Presentation award at the 2019 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering New book ‘The Theory and Practice of Social Machines’ published.
On February 2, we held our first Spinning Up Workshop as part of our new education initiative at OpenAI.
SEASON TWO FINALE, and we enter the galaxy. From building an atmosphere and an ocean to genetically-modified flora, new AR construction paradigms, and the directed evolution of our second branch of human civilization, we’ve created a new world on Mars. But what comes next for humanity? Let’s take a look at the mechanics of interstellar […] The post Anatomy Of Next Season 2 Episode 11 appeared firs
Vector Faculty Member, Frank Rudzicz, calls language a “lens into one’s cognition” because how and what we say can reveal a lot about how we feel, and how we think. […] The post Machine learning for MEG during speech tasks appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Research on innovative approach to understanding cancer published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
We’ve written a paper arguing that long-term AI safety research needs social scientists to ensure AI alignment algorithms succeed when actual humans are involved. Properly aligning advanced AI systems with human values requires resolving many uncertainties related to the psychology of human rationality, emotion, and biases. The aim of this paper is to spark further collaboration between machine le
We’ve trained a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text, achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, and performs rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question answering, and summarization—all without task-specific training.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Marina Jirotka awarded an Established Career Digital Economy Fellowship by EPSRC.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Teaching AI new skills with Hanabi.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Keynote and best paper award at 22nd International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT).
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering New funding announced for three Centres of Doctoral Training.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Blanca Rodriguez receives new Wellcome Trust funding for computational cardiovascular research.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Paper wins Alberto O. Mendelzon Test of Time Award.
Official technical announcement and publication from OpenAI covering Computational limitations in robust classification and win-win results.
The Vector Institute will award up to 115 scholarships to meritorious students who pursue a full-time AI-related master’s degree in the 2019-20 academic year. Scholarships will be awarded to students […] The post Vector Institute Offering Scholarships to Candidates Applying to AI Master’s Programs appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering New research in antibiotic resistance.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Professor Leslie Kaelbling (MIT) will deliver the Strachey lecture: Doing for our robots what evolution did for us.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Distinguished paper at Principles of Programming Language conference.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Blanca Rodriguez recognised with two Fellowships.
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Alan Turing Institute have announced funding for two new research programmes in artificial intelligence.
Our first cohort of OpenAI Fellows has concluded, with each Fellow going from a machine learning beginner to core OpenAI contributor in the course of a 6-month apprenticeship.
Canada was the first country to have a national AI strategy. The good news is that it has been a great success. The benefits have been realized sooner and to […] The post The global race for artificial-intelligence supremacy is on – and Canada’s next moves are crucial appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
We’ve discovered that the gradient noise scale, a simple statistical metric, predicts the parallelizability of neural network training on a wide range of tasks. Since complex tasks tend to have noisier gradients, increasingly large batch sizes are likely to become useful in the future, removing one potential limit to further growth of AI systems. More broadly, these results show that neural networ
The Vector Institute is pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of the Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence. These awards recognize promising AI talent in Ontario and support the recruitment of […] The post Vector Awards Inaugural Scholarships in Artificial Intelligence, Second Round of Applications to Open in 2019 appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Best Student Paper award won at IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security 2018.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Four papers by Oxford researchers accepted for presentation at POPL 2019.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering The FDB project receives unrestricted research gift from Infor Corp (USA) for work on in-database machine learning.
We’re releasing CoinRun, a training environment which provides a metric for an agent’s ability to transfer its experience to novel situations and has already helped clarify a longstanding puzzle in reinforcement learning. CoinRun strikes a desirable balance in complexity: the environment is simpler than traditional platformer games like Sonic the Hedgehog but still poses a worthy generalization ch
Vector Faculty Members and students collaborated and won two of four Best Paper awards and a Best Student Paper Award at NeurIPS 2018, the most important machine learning conference in […] The post Vector Researchers Win Top Honours at NeurIPS 2018 appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Yigit is a partner at Vela Partners, where he invests in Artificial Intelligence (AI) startups. He studied MSc Computer Science, 2009–10 and was a member of Kellogg College
The Vector Institute is pleased to announce five new Vector Faculty Members, expanding Vector’s faculty to include researchers cross-appointed at Canadian universities and institutions all the way from UBC in […] The post Vector Institute Grows Faculty Across Canada appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering University of Oxford receives £1.2m for AI and legal services project.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Oxford ranked first in world for Computer Science and Engineering.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Watch Professor Rodney Brookes Strachey Lecture: Steps Towards Super Intelligence.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Undergraduate Prize Winners.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Sadie Creese named in UK top 50 list of women in Cyber Security.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Success at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest’s Northwest Europe regional heats.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering DeepMind scholarships to encourage wider participation in computer science.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Oxford academics named in the top 50 Influential Computer Scientists list.
We’re releasing Spinning Up in Deep RL, an educational resource designed to let anyone learn to become a skilled practitioner in deep reinforcement learning. Spinning Up consists of crystal-clear examples of RL code, educational exercises, documentation, and tutorials.
It’s no longer summer here in Canada, but we still can’t stop talking about the 2018 Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School! This past July, the Vector Institute partnered […] The post 2018 Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
We’ve developed an energy-based model that can quickly learn to identify and generate instances of concepts, such as near, above, between, closest, and furthest, expressed as sets of 2d points. Our model learns these concepts after only five demonstrations. We also show cross-domain transfer: we use concepts learned in a 2d particle environment to solve tasks on a 3-dimensional physics-based robot
Official technical announcement and publication from OpenAI covering Plan online, learn offline: Efficient learning and exploration via model-based control.
We’ve developed Random Network Distillation (RND), a prediction-based method for encouraging reinforcement learning agents to explore their environments through curiosity, which for the first time exceeds average human performance on Montezuma’s Revenge.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Former student funds teaching Fellowships in Maths and Computer Science.
Athena Swan Bronze Award for Department
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Research seeks to codify negative impact of cyber attack.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Careers in Computing Fair: Tuesday 23 October 2018.
We’re proposing an AI safety technique called iterated amplification that lets us specify complicated behaviors and goals that are beyond human scale, by demonstrating how to decompose a task into simpler sub-tasks, rather than by providing labeled data or a reward function. Although this idea is in its very early stages and we have only completed experiments on simple toy algorithmic domains, we’
The 2018-2019 Machine Learning Advances and Applications Seminar schedule is now posted. The Fields Institute invites international speakers, academic faculty and industry, to present on a range of topics in […] The post 2018-2019 Machine Learning Advances and Applications Seminar appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
We are now accepting applications for our second cohort of OpenAI Scholars, a program where we provide 6–10 stipends and mentorship to individuals from underrepresented groups to study deep learning full-time for 3 months and open-source a project.
We are now accepting applications for OpenAI Fellows and Interns for 2019.
Official technical announcement and publication from OpenAI covering FFJORD: Free-form continuous dynamics for scalable reversible generative models.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Jeremy Gibbons presents Distinguished paper at ICFP 2018 conference.
On Friday, September 21st, Nvidia announced plans to open their innovation lab in Toronto. The event was held at the MARS Discovery District in Toronto, which is also home to […] The post NVIDIA opening AI lab in Toronto led by Vector Faculty Member, Sanja Fidler appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Vector Faculty Affiliates, Sue Becker, John F. Connolly, Jim Reilly and Flavio Kapcinscki (Non-Vector), recently hosted a symposium at McMaster University on the topic of Machine Learning for Brain Health. […] The post Vector Institute Introduces Faculty Affiliates appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Our graduates are among the top earners.
September 13, 2018 This morning the CEO of Uber, Dara Khrosrowshahi, visited the MaRS Discovery District, which is also home to the Vector Institute, on his inaugural visit to Canada. […] The post CONGRATULATIONS TO UBER ON PLANNED TORONTO EXPANSION appeared first on Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence .
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Richard Baker finalist in Connected Nation Pioneers Competition.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Minds Wide Open, documentary features Sir Nigel Shadbolt.
Our first cohort of OpenAI Scholars has now completed the program.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Oxford top European University for Computer Science in new THE rankings.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Michael Wooldridge to speak at the Henley Literary Festival.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering Ismail Ilkan Ceylan wins Beth Dissertation Prize.
OpenAI Five lost two games against top Dota 2 players at The International in Vancouver this week, maintaining a good chance of winning for the first 20–35 minutes of both games.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering University of Oxford research projects & spin-outs partner with Meltwater to power data science research.
Official technical announcement and publication from OpenAI covering Large-scale study of curiosity-driven learning.
Yesterday, OpenAI Five won a best-of-three against a team of 99.95th percentile Dota players: Blitz, Cap, Fogged, Merlini, and MoonMeander—four of whom have played Dota professionally—in front of a live audience and 100,000 concurrent livestream viewers.
Official technical announcement and publication from Oxford (AIDC) covering FLoC 2018 - All good things come to an end.
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