For questions related to the academic aspects of AI, and the academic fields involving AI.
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What is artificial intelligence?
What is the definition of artificial intelligence?
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What are the mathematical prerequisites for an AI researcher?
What are the mathematical prerequisites for understanding the core part of various algorithms involved in artificial intelligence and developing one's own algorithms?
Please, refer to some specific books.
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How can AI researchers avoid "overfitting" to commonly-used benchmarks as a community?
In fields such as Machine Learning, we typically (somewhat informally) say that we are overfitting if improve our performance on a training set at the cost of reduced performance on a test set / the true population from which data is sampled.
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Is there a venue to publish negative results in AI/ML domain?
Negative results occur frequently in AI/ML research (and perhaps in other domains too). Most of the time, these results are not published. This is mostly because your typical AI/ML conference doesn't accept such papers.
However, are there any venues…
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What kind of education is required for researchers in AI?
Suppose my goal is to collaborate and create an advanced AI, for instance, one that resembles a human being and the project would be on the frontier of AI research. What kind of skills would I need?
I am talking about specific things, like what…
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What are some academic AI podcast out there?
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
Linear…
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What is Reinforcement Learning?
What is the cleanest, easiest way to explain someone who is a non-STEM work colleague the concept of Reinforcement Learning? What are the main ideas behind Reinforcement Learning?
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How should I read a deep learning paper?
I have a background in mathematics and I am accustomed to reading papers with lemma and proofs. When I see a deep learning paper, they seem to be of practical nature.
How can I improve my reading and understanding of deep learning papers?
To truly…
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When we are working on an AI project, does the context (academia, industry or competition) make the process different?
When we are working on an AI project, does the domain/context (academia, industry, or competition) make the process different?
For example, I see in the competition most participants even winners use the stacking model, but I have not found anyone…
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Why should one focus on spectral operations as a computer vision researcher?
While reading about various types of mathematical operations on tensors, I encountered spectral operations for the first time.
The description is as follows (p. 53 of this book)
Spectral ops - Functions for transforming in and operating in the…
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What is Federated Learning?
How would you explain Federated Learning in simple layman terms for a non-STEM person?
What are the main ideas behind Federated Learning?
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How do AI researchers imagine higher dimensions?
We can visualize single, two, and three dimensions using websites or imagination.
In the context of AI and, in particular, machine learning, AI researchers often have to deal with multi-dimensional random vectors.
Suppose if we consider a dataset of…
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How can I read any AI paper?
I have studied linear algebra, probability, and calculus twice. But I don't understand how can I reach the level that I can read any AI paper and understand mathematical notation in it.
What is your strategy when you see the mathematical expression…
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How does publishing in the deep learning world work, with respect to journals and arXiv?
Let's say I implemented a new deep learning model that pushed some SOTA a little bit further, and I wrote a new paper about for publication.
How does it work now? I pictured three options:
Submit it to a conference. Ok, that's the easy one, I…
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What are the scientific journals dedicated to artificial general intelligence?
Apart from Journal of Artificial General Intelligence (a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal, owned by the Artificial General Intelligence Society (AGIS)), are there any other journals (or proceedings) completely (or partially) dedicated to…
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