Are you driving at an answer that might look at a causal explanation? I'm thinking of @bschoelkopf and notions of causal and anti causal learning. But maybe that doesn't help here (I just like it ;-))
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Reissuing Series with AISTATS and UAI Support Needs Organizer
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Would be very happy to If I remember well @ryan_p_adams tried to instigate something on this when he was chairing but somehow there wasn't follow up … Reissue series imagined with both AISTATS & UAI also in mind but it's about finding someone who has time to do the leg work!
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Atomic Human Book Release in US and Canada
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Atomic Human available in the US and Canada from 3rd September.
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Opportunity to collaborate with Sylvie Delacroix at King’s College Law
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Very interesting opportunity to work with @SylvieDelacroix at @KCL_Law
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ContinualAI Unconference Proceedings Volume 249 Now Available PMLR
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Volume 249 Proceedings of the 1st ContinualAI Unconference https://
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AI for Education Workshop Proceedings Volume 257 Published on PMLR
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AI for Science: Long-term Research vs Commercial Expectations
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It's not all hype for sure … we've been looking at this area for last four years. http://
semanticscholar.org/paper/AI-for-S
cience-An-Emerging-Agenda-Berens-Cranmer/1a56bacaba706357229eb65231749cb9729f7c47
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AI4Science Hype Cycle and VC Funding Limitations for Complex Problems
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I have a feeling AI4Science is now entering an overhyped period … AI4Sustainability is great but many sustainability challenges cannot be solved by AI and AI4Sustainability can be a distraction … Increasingly I feel VC $$ are not great at solving "wicked problems" ….
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AI researchers’ category error amplified by mainstream media voices
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This article by @ShannonVallor nails it. https://
noemamag.com/the-danger-of-
superhuman-ai-is-not-what-you-think/
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6th Symposium on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference Proceedings Released
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Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference https://
proceedings.mlr.press/v253/ Is now available on PMLR