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2017/04/17 | 1,530 | 5,921 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently read about [federated learning](https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/federated-learning-collaborative.html) introduced by Google, but it seems to be like [edge computing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_computing).
What is the difference between edge computing and federated learning... |
2017/04/17 | 435 | 1,898 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently read [an article about how artificial intelligence replicates human stereotypes](http://www.wired.co.uk/article/machine-learning-bias-prejudice) when applied to biased datasets.
What are examples of techniques to prevent bias (and stereotypes) in artificial intelligence (in particul... |
2017/04/17 | 2,346 | 9,934 | <issue_start>username_0: I read a really interesting article titled ["Stop Calling it Artificial Intelligence"](http://www.joshworth.com/stop-calling-in-artificial-intelligence/) that made a compelling critique of the name "Artificial Intelligence".
1. The word intelligence is so broad that it's hard to say whether "A... |
2017/04/21 | 1,085 | 4,295 | <issue_start>username_0: Assuming I have a quite advanced AI with consciousness which can understand the basics of electronics and software structures.
Will it ever be able to understand that its consciousness is just some bits in memory and threads in an operating system?<issue_comment>username_1: This is a great que... |
2017/04/21 | 2,173 | 8,766 | <issue_start>username_0: As titled, is there such thing as perfect play (or at least "perfectly optimal") in a game with incomplete information? Or at least a proof as to show why there cannot?
Naively (and seemingly obviously), the answer would be a resounding no, since the agent would be likely be forced to pick bet... |
2017/04/23 | 1,699 | 6,241 | <issue_start>username_0: *Note: My experience with Gödel's theorem is quite limited: I have read <NAME>; skimmed the 1st half of Introduction to Godel's Theorem (by <NAME>); and some random stuff here and there on the internet. That is, I only have a vague high level understanding of the theory.*
In my humble opinion... |
2017/04/25 | 829 | 3,602 | <issue_start>username_0: In past few weeks, I have learned a lot about Neural Networks. Now, I am looking forward to create a Neural Network program that can recognize individual human faces. I tried searching it online but was able to find only small pieces of information.
**What are the steps for implementing such... |
2017/04/26 | 681 | 2,598 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a question as to what it means for a knowledge-base to be consistent and complete. I've been looking into non-monotonic logic and different formalisms for it from the book "Knowledge Representation and Reasoning" by <NAME> and <NAME>, but something is confusing me.
They say:
>
> We sa... |
2017/04/28 | 2,843 | 13,289 | <issue_start>username_0: Can current trends and tools, in the field of machine learning, replicate the complexity of financial market? If yes, then what are the tools available in this domain.
**Q.** I am trying to build a model to infer results from stock market using the concept to create a graph on the companies en... |
2017/05/04 | 1,025 | 4,014 | <issue_start>username_0: These types of questions may be problem-dependent, but I have tried to find research that addresses the question whether the number of hidden layers and their size (number of neurons in each layer) really matter or not.
So my question is, does it really matter if we for example have 1 large hi... |
2017/05/06 | 1,385 | 6,169 | <issue_start>username_0: I feel that many words if not all of them have a direct mapping to some kind of inner subjective experience, to a physical object, mental feeling, process or some other kind of abstract thing. Given that machines don't have *qualia* and no mapping of this kind, can they really understand anythi... |
2017/05/08 | 914 | 3,547 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking at a diagram of [ZFNet](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.2901.pdf) below, in an attempt to understand how CNNs are designed.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8af4m.png)
In the first layer, I understand the depth of 3 (224x... |
2017/05/08 | 1,091 | 4,628 | <issue_start>username_0: For a classification task (I'm showing a pair of exactly two images to a CNN that should answer with 0 -> fake pair or 1 -> real pair) I am struggling to figure out how to design the input.
At the moment the network's architecture looks like this:
```
image-1 image-2
... |
2017/05/09 | 442 | 1,902 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an Android programmer. Now, I would like to learn machine learning. I know it requires a mathematical background, like statistics, probability, calculus and linear algebra. However, I am a bit lost. Where should I start from? Can someone provide me a road map for how to learn the mathemati... |
2017/05/09 | 763 | 3,396 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm trying to develop a kind of AI that will assist in debugging a large software system while we run test cases on it. The AI can get access to anything that the developers of the system can, namely log files, and execution data from trace points. It also has access to the structure of the sys... |
2017/05/14 | 1,659 | 6,787 | <issue_start>username_0: Can or will automata love? If so, is there a theoretical limit to love? Conversely, can automata develop selfishness?
How many resources will automata devote to being selfish and helping others?<issue_comment>username_1: It's a poorly stated question because these are at least three, possibly... |
2017/05/15 | 719 | 3,096 | <issue_start>username_0: Most (all I know) machine learning systems use a fixed set of data input channels and processing algorithms, only expanding underlying dataset processed by these; they obtain new data but only from predefined sources, and use only their fixed, built-in capacity to process it, possibly tweaking ... |
2017/05/16 | 724 | 3,286 | <issue_start>username_0: Obviously, finding suitable hyper-parameters for a neural network is a complex task and problem or domain-specific. However, there should be at least some "rules" that hold most times for the size of the filter (or kernel)!
In most cases, intuition should be to go for small filters for detecti... |
2017/05/17 | 1,188 | 5,413 | <issue_start>username_0: In a neural network when inputting nerve input to sense a 2D environment, how do you differentiate two types of objects (with similar shape and size) so the neural network can treat them differently?
Each neuron in the input layer of a neural network essentially gets 1 dimensional input (range... |
2017/05/17 | 1,231 | 5,432 | <issue_start>username_0: Something I like about neural network AI is that we already have a blueprint for it - we know in great detail how different types of neurons work, and we don't have to invent the AI, we can just replicate what we already know works (neural networks) in a simplified way and train it.
So what's... |
2017/05/19 | 1,273 | 5,045 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering how to train a neural network for a round based board game like, tic-tac-toe, chess, risk or any other round based game.
Getting the next move by inference seems to be pretty straight forward, by feeding the game state as input and using the output as the move for the current play... |
2017/05/22 | 1,164 | 4,506 | <issue_start>username_0: Expressed in my own words:
>
> Suppose we create something that passes all of our tests and is
> indistinguishable from another human. How can you know if this is
> truly a conscious being as a human is, or simply a simulation of
> conscience?
>
>
>
What is the name for this? Where was... |
2017/05/23 | 1,674 | 6,665 | <issue_start>username_0: Basically, an AI that can create, rig, and texture 3d models and game environments (by extrapolating from collections of reference models, according to user input), and that can set up physics and mechanics (assuming that the AI has access to a 3d modeling studio and a game engine, both designe... |
2017/05/26 | 1,891 | 7,527 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not looking for an efficient way to find primes (which of course is a [solved problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test)). This is more of a "what if" question.
So, in theory, could you train a neural network to predict whether or not a given number $n$ is composite or pri... |
2017/05/27 | 1,392 | 4,729 | <issue_start>username_0: Just watched a recent WIRED video on virtual assistants' performance on telling jokes. They're composed by humans, but I'd like to know if AI has gotten good enough to write some.<issue_comment>username_1: I don't think the AI has gotten to that point yet. Here are some of the interesting paper... |
2017/05/28 | 1,425 | 4,796 | <issue_start>username_0: The deep learning algorithms I would to know the limits of are:
1. CNTK
2. Caffe
3. TensorFlow
4. Torch7
5. Theano
For example: I've heard TensorFlow is near impossible to parallelize on 8 GPUs and above. So, in this case, the limit would be 8.<issue_comment>username_1: I don't think the AI h... |
2017/05/31 | 851 | 3,878 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there approaches other than convolutions to learn features from images? Has there been any research to use approaches such as hashing (e.g. `p-hash`, `diff-hash` etc.) in lieu?<issue_comment>username_1: I think your question addresses the fact that convolutional neural networks utilize conv... |
2017/06/01 | 578 | 2,063 | <issue_start>username_0: A few papers I have come across say that [BLEU](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLEU) is not an appropriate evaluation metric for chatbots, so they use the **perplexity**.
First of all, what is *perplexity*? How to calculate it? And why is perplexity a good evaluation metric for chatbots?<issue_... |
2017/06/02 | 412 | 1,522 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to train a neural network with pictures of public figures (politicians, singers, etc), but I do not know if it's legal, I do not plan to show them in my project I only want to use them to train the neural network, can this cause legal problems?<issue_comment>username_1: If you use any pi... |
2017/06/03 | 1,044 | 3,536 | <issue_start>username_0: How exactly are "mutation" and "cross-over" applied in the context of a genetic algorithm based on real numbers (as opposed to just bits)? I think I understood how those two phases are applied in a "canonical" context where chromosomes are strings of bits of a fixed length, but I'm not able to ... |
2017/06/05 | 992 | 3,290 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently read about algorithmic bias in facial recognition.
Is algorithmic bias due to the training dataset used, or is it due to something else?<issue_comment>username_1: You have a genome with certain genes:
```
genome = { GeneA: value, GeneB: value, GeneC: value }
```
So take for exam... |
2017/06/05 | 330 | 1,292 | <issue_start>username_0: I wanted to train a chatbot for answering questions from books. I am trying to use [Dynamic Memory Networks](https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.07285) to do so.
How can I generate a data set, as Facebook did in the case of [bAbI tasks](https://research.fb.com/downloads/babi/), so that it can tackle a ... |
2017/06/06 | 480 | 1,807 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I found out about somewhat famous [<NAME>](http://yudkowsky.net/) and [Machine Intelligence Research Institute](https://intelligence.org/) he founded. Their philosophy and organisation seem interesting but I'm curious about their credibility. I'm pretty sure this is not a con and they... |
2017/06/07 | 569 | 2,180 | <issue_start>username_0: If we have well designed autonomous AI vehicles, then why won't the USA government allow it to be witnessed in the public?<issue_comment>username_1: The question is based on a false fact: in Michigan, it is currently legal (under certain conditions described [here](http://www.ncsl.org/research/... |
2017/06/07 | 1,080 | 4,025 | <issue_start>username_0: I've seen events, like [CogX](https://cogx.co/session-topics/mentalhealth/), and articles that describe how machine learning techniques or algorithms can be used to diagnose mental health issues.
Here's my question.
How can artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms or techniques... |
2017/06/09 | 1,554 | 6,108 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a simple toy game with the intent of training a deep neural network on top of it. The games rules are roughly the following:
* The game has a board made up of hexagonal cells.
* Both players have the same collection of pieces that they can choose to position freely on the board.
*... |
2017/06/10 | 1,132 | 4,135 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on [this code](https://github.com/nfmcclure/tensorflow_cookbook/blob/master/09_Recurrent_Neural_Networks/02_Implementing_RNN_for_Spam_Prediction/02_implementing_rnn.py) for spam detection using recurrent neural networks.
Question 1. I am wondering whether this field (using RNNs f... |
2017/06/10 | 2,168 | 9,142 | <issue_start>username_0: O'Reilly recently published an article about the machine learning paradox. ([link](https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-machine-learning-paradox))
What it says goes basically like this: no machine learning algorithm can be perfect. If it was, it means it is overfitting and so it is not really per... |
2017/06/12 | 834 | 2,332 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been working with neural networks and artificial intelligence for a while. What I'm trying to do right now is, from a genotype I have (a sum of sensors, neurons and actuators) draw how the neural network is (with recurrent/recursive connections being showed nicely, etc.)
What I have done ... |
2017/06/12 | 512 | 2,086 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible to train a neural network to learn something via video footage (which is essentially a sequence of images)?
In other words, if I have a video teaching me how to draw an animal from scratch, can I then use this video to teach the computer to draw the animal in the same way?
Ther... |
2017/06/13 | 2,086 | 8,177 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm struggling to understand the GAN loss function as provided in [Understanding Generative Adversarial Networks](https://danieltakeshi.github.io/2017/03/05/understanding-generative-adversarial-networks/) (a blog post written by <NAME>).
In the standard cross-entropy loss, we have an output th... |
2017/06/15 | 2,312 | 10,242 | <issue_start>username_0: First of all, I'm a beginner studying AI and this is not an opinion-oriented question or one to compare programming languages. I'm not implying that Python is the best language. But the fact is that most of the famous AI frameworks have primary support for Python. They can even be multilanguage... |
2017/06/16 | 1,568 | 6,446 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a way to teach reinforcement learning in applications other than games?
The only examples I can find on the Internet are of game agents. I understand that VNC's control the input to the games via the reinforcement network. Is it possible to set this up with say a CAD software?<issue_... |
2017/06/16 | 895 | 3,795 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say we have the basic scenario where two AGIs of about the same intelligence (but not same origins/code/model) have to communicate as efficiently as possible to achieve a common goal. Now we could have 2 starting points for that:
1. Either all they have is a common communication bus (e.g... |
2017/06/19 | 390 | 1,698 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting to learn machine learning (ML). I'm thinking about starting to take part in some projects in ML.
Is [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions) is a good place to find projects in ML to work on?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, Kaggle is a great place to start working on ML proj... |
2017/06/20 | 1,461 | 6,039 | <issue_start>username_0: I am developing AI in the form of NEAT, and it has passed certain tasks like the XOR problem outlined in the [NEAT Research Paper](http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/downloads/papers/stanley.ec02.pdf). In the XOR Problem, the fitness of a network was determined by an existing function (XOR in this case). ... |
2017/06/23 | 567 | 2,557 | <issue_start>username_0: I have read some articles, some tutorials but I am still didn't implemented any AI system. So , My question may seem inappropriate for the giants in this field. But I have build certain program , downloaded to microcontroller and it will perform its task. But How to do all this with machine lea... |
2017/06/23 | 408 | 1,769 | <issue_start>username_0: Lisp was originally created as a practical mathematical notation for computer programs, influenced by the notation of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus. It quickly became the favored programming language for artificial intelligence (AI) research, according to Wikipedia.
If Lisp is still used in... |
2017/07/03 | 3,324 | 13,034 | <issue_start>username_0: It is often implicitly assumed in computer science that the human mind, or at least some mechanical calculations that humans perform (see [the Church-Turing thesis](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/church-turing/)), can be replicated with a Turing machine, therefore Artificial General Intelli... |
2017/07/04 | 599 | 2,499 | <issue_start>username_0: Some AI's, such as some chess players, are extremely well coded and have defeated humans in several matches. But I think that they won simply because computers can make calculations way faster than humans can *not because* they learned from their opponents.
If you put an AI against itself, who... |
2017/07/04 | 480 | 1,957 | <issue_start>username_0: I was checking services like [Microsoft Azure's Cognitive Services Computer Vision API](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/computer-vision/) and [Google's Vision API](https://cloud.google.com/vision/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=2016-q1-cloud-latam-ML... |
2017/07/05 | 3,957 | 16,504 | <issue_start>username_0: I was reading about [<NAME>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_%28computer_scientist%29) and his orthodox vision of Artificial Intelligence. To me, it seems like he was not very much in favour of resources (like time and money) being used to make AIs play games like Chess. Instead, [h... |
2017/07/12 | 553 | 2,293 | <issue_start>username_0: I have created 22 different Convolutional neural networks that all test for the presence of unique objects in an image (each one of the classifiers is unique).
Each sample in the test set has the output of a 22-long vector that looks something like this [0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, ..., 1], the binary ... |
2017/07/14 | 332 | 1,199 | <issue_start>username_0: Is anyone able to recommend some resources (preferably books) on the topic of neural networks that goes beyond that of introductory reading?
I'm still relatively new to the subject, however, I have successfully created my own neural network, so I wouldn't consider myself a beginner, so I'm loo... |
2017/07/16 | 716 | 2,752 | <issue_start>username_0: Both AI and Computer Science are Sciences, as I understood from Wikipedia, Computer Science is everything that has any relation to computers. And AI is commonly defined as
>
> Study of machines that take the prerogative of humans (creating musical pieces e.t.c
>
>
>
But recently, when I w... |
2017/07/18 | 213 | 887 | <issue_start>username_0: We have always known that gradient descent is a function of two or more variables. But how can we geometrically represent gradient descent if it is a function of only one variable?<issue_comment>username_1: "The concept of a direction of fastest descent only makes sense in more than one dimensi... |
2017/07/18 | 230 | 813 | <issue_start>username_0: I read a lot about this, I understand how it work, but I would like the most simple example you can provide me, because I have no clue how I would make it in code. No matter the language( I would appreciate if it's derived from c), because I'm not here to copy-paste, and understand the essence.... |
2017/07/20 | 763 | 2,963 | <issue_start>username_0: How can I determine if an input sentence is consistent with a certain subject?
For example, suppose I am given the following dataset.
```
| Subject | User input | Output |
|---------------|----------------------|--------|
| Dog ownership | I own a dog | Yes |
| Dog... |
2017/07/21 | 1,253 | 5,267 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm trying to come up with the right algorithm for a system in which the user enter symptoms and we starts triggering questions related to that symptoms and his answers will result a disease which is related to the answer which is given by the user
Let's assume that the user entered the follow... |
2017/07/21 | 1,035 | 4,428 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm going to give a talk, and I'm preparing the material. The purpose of the conversation is to convince companies in my region that it is possible to apply artificial intelligence in solving everyday business problems.
I would like some examples to be able to present, and so I came here to as... |
2017/07/27 | 959 | 3,911 | <issue_start>username_0: If I create a program which takes an input, gives an output and then requires a response to let it know whether the answer it gave was any good does it count as AI?
If not, what is the process of AI? Does it not always need specific parameters? For example, I ask it "Who is the president of t... |
2017/07/27 | 853 | 3,276 | <issue_start>username_0: After witnessing the rise of deep learning as automatic feature/pattern recognition over classic machine learning techniques, I had an insight that the more you automate at each level, the better the results, and I, therefore, turned my focus to [neuroevolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne... |
2017/07/30 | 569 | 2,164 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm learning Neural Networks, and everything works as planned but, like humans do, adjusting themselves to learn more efficiently, I'm trying to understand conceptually how one might implement an auto adjusting learning rate for a Neural Network.
I have tried to make it based on error, somethi... |
2017/07/31 | 712 | 3,304 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been following the [ML course by <NAME>](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ninamf/courses/601sp15/lectures.shtml).
The inherent assumption while using Decision Tree Learning Algo is: **The algo. preferably chooses a Decision Tree which is the smallest.**
**Why is this so** when we can have bigge... |
2017/08/02 | 443 | 1,992 | <issue_start>username_0: I am developing an LSTM for sequence tagging. During the development, I do various changes in the system, for example, add new features, change the number of nodes in the hidden layers, etc. After each change, I check the accuracy using cross-validation on a development dataset.
Currently, in ... |
2017/08/02 | 821 | 2,654 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for AI podcasts that are purely academic-oriented that I can use for learning purposes. Thanks for any resource pointers.
The AI podcasts I am aware of are (not sure how many of these can be considered academic):
* [The AI Podcast](https://blogs.nvidia.com/ai-podcast/)
* [Linear ... |
2017/08/03 | 1,312 | 5,057 | <issue_start>username_0: From a lecture in machine learning, I know that a linear activation function can only produce a linear function, but I don't know if it can produce a connected linear function, like the one in the image below. This function consists of multiple concatenated lines.
[, I see that the first few lines state that it can model any time series
>
> HTK is a toolkit fo... |
2017/08/04 | 730 | 2,716 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently started learning about reinforcement learning. Currently, I am trying to implement the [SARSA algorithm](http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/%7Ecs9417ml/RL1/algorithms.html). However, I do not know how to deal with $Q(s', a')$, when $s'$ is the terminal state. First, there is no action to cho... |
2017/08/07 | 1,052 | 4,102 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm attempting to program my own system to run a neural network. To reduce the number of nodes needed, it was suggested to make it treat rotations of the input equally.
My network aims to learn and predict Conway's Game of Life by looking at every square and its surrounding squares in a grid, ... |
2017/08/07 | 1,006 | 4,328 | <issue_start>username_0: In general, what possibilities are there for reinventing job descriptions that could be replaced by an automated AI solution?
My initial ideas include:
* Monitoring the AI and flagging its incorrect actions.
* Possibly taking over the control in very challenging scenarios.
* Creating/gatherin... |
2017/08/08 | 815 | 3,474 | <issue_start>username_0: In Chapter 14.4 (p. 664) of the book **Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning** by **Bishop**, it is mentioned that *tree-based models are more widely used in Medical Diagnosis*.
Apart from giving better performance, is there a human-centric reason for this trade-off **as medical diagnosis i... |
2017/08/11 | 3,757 | 18,430 | <issue_start>username_0: Frameworks like [PyTorch](http://pytorch.org) and TensorFlow through [TensorFlow Fold](https://research.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-tensorflow-fold-deep.html) support Dynamic Computational Graphs and are receiving attention from data scientists.
However, there seems to be a lack of resou... |
2017/08/13 | 591 | 2,193 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there any real-world examples of unintentional "bad" AI behaviour? I'm not looking for hypothetical arguments of malicious AI (AI in a box, paperclip maximizer), but for actual instances in history where some AI directly did something bad due to its direct action that was not intended behav... |
2017/08/14 | 654 | 2,714 | <issue_start>username_0: So, [Deepmind is pushing for a human level Starcraft bot](https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-and-blizzard-open-starcraft-ii-ai-research-environment/) and [Open AI just created a human level 1vs1 Dota bot](https://openai.com/the-international/).
Unfortunately, I've no clue what that signifies ... |
2017/08/15 | 766 | 2,860 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently searching for a supervised learning algorithm that can be used to predict the output given a large enough training set.
Here's a simple example. Suppose the training dataset is `{[A=1, B=330, C=1358.238902], result=234.244378}` and the test dataset `{[A=893, B=34, C=293], result... |
2017/08/16 | 571 | 2,210 | <issue_start>username_0: I've gone through several descriptions of CNNs online and they all leave out a crucial part as if it were trivial.
A "volume" of neurons consists of several parallel layers ("feature maps"), each the result of convolving with a different kernel.
Between volumes, there is usually a step where ... |
2017/08/18 | 1,514 | 6,910 | <issue_start>username_0: I am just curious what AI would be harder to create from a strictly engineering point of view. AI which would win 1vs 1 game with the best player in starcraft or AI which would control a team the whole team in dota2 and win against the best team?<issue_comment>username_1: I can't answer definit... |
2017/08/21 | 2,533 | 10,311 | <issue_start>username_0: >
> Artificial Intelligence is any device that perceives its environment
> and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal.
>
>
>
I got this definition from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence) that cited "<NAME> (2003), Artificial Intellig... |
2017/08/21 | 2,411 | 8,563 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible to feed a neural network the output from a random number generator and expect it learn the hashing (or generator) function, so that it can predict what will be the next generated [pseudo-random number](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/124233/145653)?
Does somethi... |
2017/08/22 | 879 | 2,955 | <issue_start>username_0: Multiple resources I referred to mention that MSE is great because it's convex. But I don't get how, especially in the context of neural networks.
Let's say we have the following:
* $X$: training dataset
* $Y$: targets
* $\Theta$: the set of parameters of the model $f\_\Theta$ (a neural netwo... |
2017/08/23 | 1,154 | 4,963 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's take our standard [paperclip maximizer General AI](https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer) and attempt to obtain precisely one million paper clips, over course of a year, without destroying the universe in the process.
Most maximization directives make the process run-away. ... |
2017/08/23 | 1,823 | 7,620 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't play nearly enough Chess to be able to answer. For context, AlphaGo is stronger than the current strongest human player, but AlphaGo's game play has been cast as "inhuman" in the sense that it doesn't resemble human play. *(In Go, this can involve aesthetic qualities.)*
Really I'm wond... |
2017/08/26 | 1,695 | 7,673 | <issue_start>username_0: What we are doing in the image processing training. We are storing some form of data which is going to act as the knowledge or experience of the system.
* In which form can the system store it's training data?
For example, with the hand written recognition, we can represent the digits as com... |
2017/08/26 | 1,560 | 7,090 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm quite new to image processing and AI. But I have the expertise to create a network that can be used in object detection and recognition. Most of the time I've used ANN or Naive Bayes.
Now, I want to develop a method of action recognition, something like identifying whether one is jogging, ... |
2017/08/26 | 760 | 3,496 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to write an algorithm which indicates to a robot the first point in time when it is reasonably safe to cross a road. Assume that the robot's goal is to travel to a location that requires a road crossing and that the robot is ready to cross.
Simple algorithms and decision making will pro... |
2017/08/27 | 2,113 | 9,195 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, within the AI development field, the main focus seems to be on pattern recognition and machine learning. Learning is about adjusting internal variables based on a feedback loop.
[Maslow's hierarchy of needs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs) is a theory in... |
2017/08/27 | 817 | 3,515 | <issue_start>username_0: <NAME> talks in his book [Superintelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dangers,_Strategies) about the many dangers of AI. He considers it necessary that strong security mechanisms are put in place to ensure that a machine, once it gains general intelligence far bey... |
2017/08/28 | 698 | 2,701 | <issue_start>username_0: In this [note](https://people.cs.umass.edu/~domke/courses/sml2011/08autodiff_nnets.pdf) <NAME> says that
>
> In practice, neural networks seem to usually find a reasonable solution when the number of layers is not too large, but find poor solutions when using more than, say, 2 hidden layers.
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2017/08/29 | 1,412 | 5,611 | <issue_start>username_0: As I understand it from this [video lecture](http://videolectures.net/deeplearning2015_vincent_machine_learning/), there are three types of deep learning:
* Supervised
* Unsupervised
* Reinforcement
All these can serve to train a neural network either *only prior* to its deployment or *during... |
2017/08/31 | 1,569 | 6,346 | <issue_start>username_0: **Scenario:** I am trying to create a dataset with images of choice for different animal classes. I am going to train those images for classification using CNN.
**Problem:** Let's assume I somehow don't have the privilege to collect too many images and was only able to collect a few of them fo... |
2017/08/31 | 1,256 | 4,817 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that I have 10K images of sizes $2400 \times 2400$ to train a CNN.
How do I handle such large image sizes without downsampling?
Here are a few more specific questions.
1. Are there any techniques to handle such large images which are to be trained?
2. What batch size is reasonable t... |
2017/08/31 | 2,317 | 10,420 | <issue_start>username_0: We are careening into the future which may hold unpredictable dangers in relation to AI. I've haven't yet heard of Chappie or Robocop style police robots, but militarized drone tech is replacing many conventional weapons platforms. I love the idea that I may one day be able to transfer my consc... |
2017/09/01 | 1,158 | 4,984 | <issue_start>username_0: I think about a system which gets XML documents in various structures but with essentially the same data structure in it. For the example, let's assume each document contains data about one or more persons. So the AI would recognize a name. Somewhere else in the document there is the post addre... |
2017/09/02 | 1,022 | 4,182 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a way to train AI to find aspecific line or symbol in a image and crop it?
OpenCV scripts finds a face and crops it: how can I add my annotations?
Lest say I have a image like this:
`+------+
| * *|
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| * *|
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+------+`
I want it to find the \* and crop it.<issue_comment>... |
2017/09/03 | 857 | 3,255 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working on an implementation of the backpropagation algorithm for a simple neural network, which predicts a probability of survival (1 or 0).
However, I can't get it above 80%, no matter how much I try to set the right hyperparameters. I suspect that's because my backpropagation is impleme... |
2017/09/03 | 936 | 4,098 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand that a neural network basically distorts(non-linear transformation) and changes the perspective(linear transformations) of input space to draw a plane to classify data. How does the network deduce if an input is one side of a plane and therefore output the decision? Thanks in advan... |
2017/09/04 | 1,070 | 5,066 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I was working on a problem to do some cost analysis of my expenditure for some particular resource.
I usually make some manual decisions from the analysis and plan accordingly.
I have a big data set in excel format and with hundreds of columns, defining the use of the resource in vari... |
2017/09/05 | 1,314 | 5,034 | <issue_start>username_0: When designing a machine-learning system, there are various parameters that have to be determined. I am interested in the following general question: is it possible to construct a dataset on which the system will have good performance with some specific set of parameters, but not with other par... |
2017/09/05 | 588 | 2,609 | <issue_start>username_0: To understand the inner workings of neural networks, a fair amount of mathematical concepts is required. Backpropagation alone is a challenging technique if you are not fluent in calculating local gradients. And that's just the start of the journey.
But the more I study neural networks, the mo... |