George led a discussion about AlphaGo - The Movie | Full Documentary. Lan informed us about the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset. Kyle shared some thoughts about the paper Beyond R_0: the importance of contact tracing when predicting epidemics.

George discusses Google's Dataset Search leaving its closed beta program, and what potential applications it will have for businesses, scholars, and hobbyists. Alex brings an article about Activation Atlases and we discusses the applicability to machine learning interpretability. Lan leads a discussion about the paper Attention is not Explanation from Sarthak Jain and Byron C. Wallace. It explores the relationship between attention weights and feature importance scores (spoilers in the...

Kyle discusses Google's recent open sourcing of ALBERT, a variant of the famous BERT model for natural language processing. ALBERT is more compact and uses fewer parameters. George leads a discussion about the paper Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Understanding, visualizing, and interpreting deep learning models by Samek, Wiegand, and Muller. This work introduces two tools for generating local interpretability and a novel metric to objectively compare the quality of explanations. Lan...