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Can some one help me understand this paragraph from Nvidia's progressive GAN paper?
In the paper Progressive growing of gans for improved quality, stability, and variation (ICLR, 2018) by Nvidia researchers, the authors write
Furthermore, we observe that mode collapses traditionally
plaguing GANs tend to happen very quickly, over…

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How can people contribute to AGI research?
Is there a way for people outside of the core research community of AGI to contribute to the cause?
There are a lot of people interested in supporting the field, but there is no clear way to do that. Is there something like BOINC for AGI researches,…

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How do I compute the structural similarity between sentences?
I am working on a problem where I need to determine whether two sentences are similar or not. I implemented a solution using BM25 algorithm and wordnet synsets for determining syntactic & semantic similarity. The solution is working adequately,…

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How could I use reinforcement learning to solve a chess-like board game?
I invented a chess-like board game. I built an engine so that it can play autonomously. The engine is basically a decision tree. It's composed by:
A search function that at each node finds all possible legal moves
An evaluation function that…

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Are the dialogs at Sophia's (the robot) appearings scripted?
I talk about the robot from: Hanson Robotics, which was granted the right to citizenship from Saudi Arabia.
I have found the following articles:
Your new friend is a humanoid robot
Source: theaustralian.com.au
Like Amazon Echo, Google Assistant and…

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Why do many AI bots feel the need to be know-it-alls?
Having used various AI bots often over recent months, I noticed that often it will claim to know something, even if it doesn't.
It would then either explain something which is clearly nonsense, or by rambling on about how the answer isn't known in…

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Can the IQ of an AI program be measured?
Can an AI program have an IQ? In other words, can the IQ of an AI program be measured? Like how humans can do an IQ test.

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What would motivate a machine?
Currently, within the AI development field, the main focus seems to be on pattern recognition and machine learning. Learning is about adjusting internal variables based on a feedback loop.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology…

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Is the mean-squared error always convex in the context of neural networks?
Multiple resources I referred to mention that MSE is great because it's convex. But I don't get how, especially in the context of neural networks.
Let's say we have the following:
$X$: training dataset
$Y$: targets
$\Theta$: the set of parameters…

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What are some implications of Gödel's theorems on AI research?
Note: My experience with Gödel's theorem is quite limited: I have read Gödel Escher Bach; skimmed the 1st half of Introduction to Godel's Theorem (by Peter Smith); and some random stuff here and there on the internet. That is, I only have a vague…

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Is there actually a lack of fundamental theory on deep learning?
I heard several times that one of the fundamental/open problems of deep learning is the lack of "general theory" on it, because, actually, we don't know why deep learning works so well. Even the Wikipedia page on deep learning has similar comments.…

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Is a genetic algorithm an example of artificial intelligence?
Since human intelligence presumably is a function of a natural genetic algorithm in nature, is using a genetic algorithm in a computer an example of artificial intelligence? If not, how do they differ? Or perhaps some are and some are not expressing…

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What are the consequences of layer norm vs batch norm?
I'll start with my understanding of the literal difference between these two. First, let's say we have an input tensor to a layer, and that tensor has dimensionality $B \times D$, where $B$ is the size of the batch and $D$ is the dimensionality of…

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Which approaches could I use to create a simple chatbot using a neural network?
I wanted to start experimenting with neural networks, so I decided to make a chatbot (like Cleverbot, which is not that clever anyway) using them.
I looked around for some documentation and I found many tutorials on general tasks, but few on this…

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How does one prove comprehension in machines?
Say we have a machine and we give it a task to do (vision task, language task, game, etc.), how can one prove that a machine actually know's what's going on/happening in that specific task?
To narrow it down, some examples:
Conversation - How would…

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