AI Facts and Myths, an Essay by ML Researchers on the Social Dilemma, And +!

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Newsletter by Towards AI #17

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Hey everyone. I hope you are well. In this issue, we dive into an ML research essay on the social dilemma, some exciting deals to make your AI-holiday shopping even better, the misconceptions of AI and the challenges of natural language generation (NLG), an updated chart of all significant neural networks, and the ML research paper highlight of the month.

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An Essay by ML Researchers on “The Social Dilemma”

Deja Vu much? Researchers at Carnegie Mellon argue on the blog “When Curation Becomes Creation: Algorithms, microcontent, and the vanishing distinction between platforms and creators” the challenges of implementing the right policies and regulations that balance ethics, the economy, individual rights, and proprietary data. The thorough essay showcases the gray areas between every piece of content published and distributed on the internet and what we can do about it.

AI-Holiday Deals

Ho ho ho! I hope I don’t bore you too much with these. But! In case you are looking for a new AI rig, we just updated our shopping recommendations for deep learning laptops or AI workstations. So please take a look, and as always, all feedback is welcome — if you do get one (and have browser cookies enabled), you’ll be supporting us, and we genuinely appreciate it.

AI Misconceptions and the Challenges of NLG

Artificial intelligence’s public point of view can be strongly misguided. This blog post dives on AI facts and myths, highlighting Stanford researcher Abigail See, which showcases some genuinely exciting problems with the public’s understanding of AI, to the challenges of natural language generation, along with what’s in the future for generative models — as more and more become part of our daily lives.

Neural Network Topologies

We just updated our chart on the types of neural networks and their applications, diving from the perceptron all the way to complex neural networks, such as a Neural Turing Machine (NTM), to generative adversarial networks (GANs), and deep convolutional inverse graphics networks.

ML Research Paper Highlight of the Month

Wolfgang Konen and Samineh Bagheri from the University of Applied Sciences in Germany published a cool paper called “Final Adaptation Reinforcement Learning for N-Player Games,” which concentrates n-tuple based reinforcement learning algorithms for games, specifically new ones tackling TD-, SARSA-, and Q-learning. All reproducible and open-source code for the paper is available on Github.

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