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Using AI to predict retinal disease progression
Vision loss among the elderly is a major healthcare issue: about one in three people have some vision-reducing disease by the age of 65. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common...
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Simple Sensor Intentions for Exploration
In this paper we focus on a setting in which goal tasks are defined via simple sparse rewards, and exploration is facilitated via agent-internal auxiliary tasks. We introduce the idea of simple...
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Learning to Segment Actions from Observation and Narration
We apply a generative segmental model of task structure, guided by narration, to action segmentation in video. We focus on unsupervised and weakly-supervised settings where no action labels are...
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Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity
Specification gaming is a behaviour that satisfies the literal specification of an objective without achieving the intended outcome. We have all had experiences with specification gaming, even if...
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Towards understanding glasses with graph neural networks
Under a microscope, a pane of window glass doesn’t look like a collection of orderly molecules, as a crystal would, but rather a jumble with no discernable structure. Glass is made by starting...
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Agent57: Outperforming the human Atari benchmark
The Atari57 suite of games is a long-standing benchmark to gauge agent performance across a wide range of tasks. We’ve developed Agent57, the first deep reinforcement learning agent to obtain a...
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Visual Grounding in Video for Unsupervised Word Translation
Our goal is to use visual grounding to improve unsupervised word mapping between languages. The key idea is to establish a common visual representation between two languages by learning embeddings...
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A new model and dataset for long-range memory
Throughout our lives, we build up memories that are retained over a diverse array of timescales, from minutes to months to years to decades. When reading a book, we can recall characters who were...
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AlphaFold: Using AI for scientific discovery
In our study published in Nature, we demonstrate how artificial intelligence research can drive and accelerate new scientific discoveries. We’ve built a dedicated, interdisciplinary team in hopes...
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Dopamine and temporal difference learning: A fruitful relationship between neuroscience and AI
Learning and motivation are driven by internal and external rewards. Many of our day-to-day behaviours are guided by predicting, or anticipating, whether a given action will result in a positive...
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Artificial Intelligence, Values and Alignment
This paper looks at philosophical questions that arise in the context of AI alignment. It defends three propositions. First, normative and technical aspects of the AI alignment problem are...
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International evaluation of an AI system for breast cancer screening
Screening mammography aims to identify breast cancer before symptoms appear, enabling earlier therapy for more treatable disease. Despite the existence of screening programs worldwide,...
