Episodes
This week we are back with our regular panelists! Kyle brings us a short article exploring science fiction impacting AI titled "Survey Finds Science Fiction One of Many Factors Impacting Views of AI Technology." George brings us an article about using thousands fo computers from universities, companies and volunteers to train one huge transformer,  titled "Train Vast Neural Networks Together." Last but not least Lan brings us the paper this week! She discusses the paper "AutoML-Zero: Evolving...
Published 09/16/20
We are back with other guest this week! We have NLP/ML research scientist, Fredrik Olsson joining us. He discusses the work "Why You Should Do NLP Beyond English." Lan brings us a news item, "Research News: DNA Storage." George talks about the article "Discovering Symbolic Models from Deep Learning with Inductive Biases." Last but not least, Kyle brings us the paper this week. He brings the paper, "Machine Reasoning to Assess Pandemics Risks: Case of USS Theodore Roosevelt."
Published 09/10/20
Rachel Bittner, a research scientist at Spotify, joins us in our discussion this week! She brings us the paper "Few-Shot Sound Event Detection." Lan discusses an article about fairness of search results. George talks about a blog post from England about an algorithm grading exams and the controversy around it. Last but not least, Kyle brings us an article titled "Eye-Catching Advances in Some AI Fields are not Real."  
Published 09/01/20
Back with our regular panelists! This week Lan brings us an article about the clothing subscription service Stitch Fix called "Multi-Armed Bandits and the Stitch Fix Experimentation Platform | Stitch Fix Technology – Multithreaded." Kyle discusses a news item titled "Shrinking Deep Learning's Carbon Footprint." Last but not least George brings the paper this week titled "Aligning AI With Shared Human Values."
Published 08/26/20
Back again with our regular panelists! This week George brings us an interesting article about how an AI developed to identify individual birds without tagging. Kyle discusses the news item "New York legislature votes to halt facial recognition tech in schools for two years." Last but not least, Lan brings the paper this week! She discusses the paper "A deep learning approach for staging embryonic tissue isolates with small data."
Published 08/14/20
Back again with our regular panelists! Today Lan brings us a article she found from Reddit about Gradio. George brings us a post about the psychology techniques used in AI. Last but not least, Kyle brings our paper this week about automatic essay test scoring!
Published 08/09/20
Back again with another episode with our regular panelists! This week Kyle discusses the article from The Scientist "How Social Isolation Affects the Brain." Lan brings us an article titled "National University of Singapore used Intel Neuromorphic chip to develop touch-sensing robotic 'skin.'" Last but not least, George brings us the paper this week! He talks about Reinforcement Learning, bringing the paper "One Policy to Control Them All: Shared Modular Policies for Agent-Agnostic Control." ...
Published 07/29/20
Back again with our regular panelists! George takes us on a discussion about the game NetHack from the blog post "The NetHack Learning Environment."  Kyle brings us an article titled "Where the Latest COVID-19 Models Think We're Headed - And Why They Disagree." Last but not least, Lan brings us the paper this week! She brings us the paper "Deconstructing Lottery Tickets: Zeros, Signs, and the Supermask."   All works are linked in the show notes. 
Published 07/21/20
This week we have our regular panel of Lan, George and Kyle! George brings us a blog post "What I Learned From Looking at 200 Machine Learning Tools." Which, the author, talks about a list complied of all of the AI/ML tools he could find. Lan brings us a news article "Making Blurry Faces Photorealistic Only Goes So Far." This article discusses how AI researchers discover inherent resolution limit to "upsampling" of pixelated faces. Last but not least, Kyle brings us the paper for this week!...
Published 07/14/20
We are back with our regular panel this week! Starting off we have Lan who brings us the article "Biosensors May Hold the Key to Mass Coronavirus Testing." Which talks about tech startups beginning to develop chips that signal the presence of the coronavirus RNA, antibodies, and antigens. George brings us a blog post all about BLEURT, titled "BLEURT: Learning Robust Metrics for Text Generation." Last but not least, Kyle discusses the main paper this week! He brought us a paper discussing...
Published 07/06/20
We're back with a special guest panelist Leonardo Apolonio! He brings us the main paper this week titled "Movement Pruning: Adaptive Sparsity by Fine-Tuning." George shows us a blog post discussing GPT-3. Lan introduces us to an article about misinformation related to Covid-19. Last but not least, Kyle also has a topic about Covid-19 addressing contact tracing apps! 
Published 07/01/20
Another week, another episode! We are back again with our regular panelists. George brings us a clinical field study with an AI that is being used to diagnose blindness. Lan discusses the article titled "AI Infrastructure for Everyone, Now Open Sourced." Last but not least, Kyle brings us our paper for the week. He brings us the paper "Extending Machine Learning Classification Capabilities with Histogram Reweighting."  
Published 06/24/20
This weeks episode we have the regular panel back together! George brought us the blog post from Google AI, "Chip Design with Deep Reinforcement Learning." Kyle brings us a news item from CNET, "How People with Down Syndrome are Improving Google Assistant." Lan brings us the paper this week! She discusses the paper "Fooling LIME and SHAP: Adversarial Attacks on Post hoc Explanation Methods." All works mentioned will be linked in the show notes. 
Published 06/16/20
This week on Journal Club we have another panelist! Jesus Rogel-Salazar joins us this week to discuss the paper Automatic Detection of Tympanic Membrane and Middle Ear Infection. Kyle talks about the relationship between Covid-19 and Carbon Emissions. George tells us about the new Hateful Memes Challenge from Facebook. Lan joins us to talk about Google's AI Explorables.  All mentioned work can be found in the show notes.     
Published 06/10/20
Lan, Animal AI Olympics Kyle, Whatsapp contact tracing George, Speaker Prediction Blogpost Guest: Francisco J. Azuaje G., How to develop machine learning models for healthcare
Published 06/03/20
Taking inspiration and the gym environment from Kaggle's ConnectX competition, George shows off an attempt to design an interpretable Connect 4 Agent with a DQN. Lan discusses Dataset nutrition Label Kyle discusses encryption keys  
Published 05/14/20
George talks about the use of Machine Learning to diagnose Cancer from a blood test. By sampling 'cell-free-DNA' this test is capable of identifying 50 different types of Cancer and the localized tissue of origin with a >90% accuracy. Lan leads a discussion of what robots and researchers in robotics may be able to contribute towards fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Kyle talks about watermarking data. 
Published 05/06/20
Kyle discusses How can AI help in a humanitarian crisis? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/artifical-intelligence-disaster-response-humanitarian-crisis-ai-help-a8319361.html Lan discusses Captum https://medium.com/pytorch/introduction-to-captum-a-model-interpretability-library-for-pytorch-d236592d8afa George's paper this week is Sanity Checks for Saliency Maps. This work takes stock of a group of techniques that generate local interpretabilty - and assesses their trustworthiness...
Published 04/30/20
Published 04/30/20
George dives into his blog post experimenting with Scott Lundberg's SHAP library. By training an XGBoost model on a dataset about academic attainment and alcohol consumption can we develop a global interpretation of the underlying relationships? Lan leads the discussion of the paper Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features by Ilyas and colleagues. This papers proposes a new perspective on adversarial susceptibility of machine learning models by teasing apart the 'robust' and the...
Published 04/22/20
George discusses Giant Language Test Room Lan presents a news item about Setting Fairness Goals with TensorFlow Constrained Optimization Library. This library lets users configure and train machine learning problems based on multiple different metrics, making it easy to formulate and solve many problems of interest to the fairness community. Kyle discusses ML Unfairness, Juvenile Recidivism in Catalonia
Published 04/15/20
Lan presents a blog post revealing the Dark secrets of BERT. This work uses telling visualizations of self-attention patterns before and after fine-tuning to probe: what happens in the fine-tuned BERT? George brings a novel technique to the show, "radioactive data" - a marriage of data and steganography. This work from Facebook AI Research gives us the ability to know exactly who's been training models on our data. Kyle: Learning Important Features Through Propagating Activation Differences
Published 04/08/20
Journal Club Lan presents a blog post from Google Deepmind about Dopamine and temporal difference learning. This is the story of a fruitful collaboration between Neuroscience and AI researchers that found the activity of dopamine neurons in the mouse ventral tegmental area during a learnt probablistic reward task was consistent with distributional temporal-difference reinforcement learning. That's a mouthful, go read it yourself! Kyle: Hey Alexa! Sorry I fooled you ... George presents his...
Published 04/01/20