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Last week at ICML 2020, Mikael Henaff, Akshay Krishnamurthy, John Langford and Dipendra Misra had a paper on a new reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm that solves three key problems in RL: (i) global exploration, (ii) decoding latent dynamics, and (iii) optimizing a given…
In the news | Medium | Machine Learning
At ICML 2020, Mikael Henaff, Akshay Krishnamurthy, John Langford and Dipendra Misra published a paper presenting a new reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm called HOMER that addresses three main problems in real-world RL problem: (i) exploration, (ii) decoding latent dynamics, and (iii) optimizing…
In the news | Nature
To see the divide between the best artificial intelligence and the mental capabilities of a seven-year-old child, look no further than the popular video game Minecraft. A young human can learn how to find a rare diamond in the game…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft has released Decision, a suite of decision-making recommendations, automated transcription services, and AI that recognizes and digitizes drawings. The suite will include Personalizer, a reinforcement learning service for recommendations or personalization designed to improve user engagement.
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft's new pre-built machine learning models for its Cognitive Services platform include an API for building personalization features, a form recognizer for automating data entry, a handwriting recognition API, and an enhanced speech recognition service that focuses on transcribing conversations.
In the news | The Globe and Mail
El Asri, a research manager at Microsoft's Montreal research lab, and her colleagues are grappling with the challenge of designing computer systems that can interact with humans the way humans interact with one another.
In the news | The Globe and Mail
Canada is gearing up for its second wave of brain gains in the hot field of artificial intelligence. The country's global leadership in AI began when deep learning pioneer Geoff Hinton decamped from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for the…
In the news | The AI Blog
Microsoft researchers have created an artificial intelligence-based system that learned how to get the maximum score on the addictive 1980s video game Ms. Pac-Man, using a divide-and-conquer method that could have broad implications...
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One of Microsoft's artificial intelligence systems has conquered the 1980s video game Ms. Pac-Man. The team, from Microsoft-owned Canadian AI firm Maluuba, achieved the perfect score of 999,990.