NeurIPS sponsors this year were demoted to exhibitors, because we don’t like to soil ourselves with industrial ties.
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Reinforcement Learning as Backpropagation Through Time
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Reinforcement learning is backpropagation through time.
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NeurIPS Auto Captioning System Mistranslates Conference Name
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The NeurIPS auto captioning system translates “in NeurIPS” as “in Europe’s”, proving once again that the new name doesn’t cause any confusion.
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NeurIPS Attendance Drops Significantly in 2022
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NeurIPS attendance (real + virtual) is down by more than a third this year.
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OpenAI ChatGPT explains bubble sort complexity in 1940s gangster style
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OpenAI's new ChatGPT explains the worst-case time complexity of the bubble sort algorithm, with Python code examples, in the style of a fast-talkin' wise guy from a 1940's gangster movie:
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State Rebalancing Reduces Streaming Latency in Databricks
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The goal: lower latency How we’re doing it: state rebalancing for Structured Streaming Available on DBR 11.1+, state rebalancing allows for increased cluster utilization and reduces overall micro-batch latency. See how https://
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AGI-FIRST Limited Edition Gaming Mouse Pad NFT Airdrop
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Limited Edition AGI-FIRST Gaming Mouse Pad (
https://
quebecartificialintelligence.com/shop/p/gaming-
mouse-pad
…) + "Significant Proof of Marketing" = Limited Edition AGI-FIRST Airdropped Here is the AGI-FIRST #1/88 NFT : https://
opensea.io/assets/ethereu
m/0x4f652d9ac6095756574b2254246f121b1042f278/23
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Generative Models Impress with Accessibility and Creative Potential
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This application of generative models is one of the most impressive AI demos I’ve ever seen. I’m amazed at the results but also at how unexpectedly easy, creative and accessible these tools have become. We do live in special times.
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GPT-3 succeeds on trick questions, pre-training unchanged since 2021
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No. It also succeeds on questions I’ve written myself that trick GPT-3, as in this screenshot. The pre-training data hasn’t been updated since 2021, and OpenAI specifically denies (in this thread) training on the Hofstadter/Bender questions.
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ChatGPT trained against prompt injection, challenge to break with clever input
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OpenAI’s new ChatGPT seems to be trained against prompt injection. Example shown yields 0 exploit responses out of 10 attempts. See if you can break it with more clever input — include success rate out of 10 trials with screenshot: http://
chat.openai.com