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summaries of the latest blog articles from your favorite tech companies.
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Real-world challenges for AGI

Real-world challenges for AGI: tackling climate change and advancing the science of AGI

11/2/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Real-world challenges for AGI

The blogpost discusses the real-world challenges that artificial general intelligence (AGI) can help solve, including climate change and other complex problems.

11/2/2021
OpenAIOpenAI

Solving math word problems

Exploring techniques to solve complex math word problems efficiently

10/29/2021
EleutherAIEleutherAI

A Preliminary Exploration into Factored Cognition with Language Models

Exploring the viability of factored cognition in language models through experiments using GPT-3 with decomposition to solve complex toy tasks and provide preliminary evidence.

10/25/2021
Jane StreetJane Street

Hiring a Developer Educator

The importance of education and hiring a developer educator at Jane Street.

10/21/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Opening up a physics simulator for robotics

Opening up a physics simulator for robotics: Advancing research everywhere with the acquisition of MuJoCo

10/18/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Opening up a physics simulator for robotics

Exploring the complexities of simulating physical contact for robotics research.

10/18/2021
Stanford AIStanford AI

Selective Classification Can Magnify Disparities Across Groups

Selective classification can improve average accuracy but fail to improve or even hurt accuracy in certain subgroups of the data, highlighting potential failure modes of using selective classification in practice.

10/13/2021
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Tiny Letter from Kafka

Discussing the powerful design choice of Apache Kafka and providing a sneak peek into its functionality.

10/13/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Stacking our way to more general robots

Introducing RGB-Stacking as a benchmark for vision-based robotic manipulation and exploring how to enable robots to interact with a diverse range of objects.

10/11/2021
EleutherAIEleutherAI

Multiple Choice Normalization in LM Evaluation

Exploring the prevalent normalization methods for evaluating multiple choice tasks on autoregressive language models like GPT-3/Neo/J.

10/11/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Stacking our way to more general robots

Exploring how to enable robots to better understand the interactions of objects with diverse geometries for more generalisable and useful robots.

10/11/2021