Artificial Intelligence #71

Hey, in this issue: Amazon to require new programming hires to take classes in machine learning, scientists leveraged AI to create tennis matches that never happened, an attention-free transformer, spotting and solving everyday problems with machine learning, tutorial on monitoring ML systems, and more.

The sponsors of this issue are Spell and Traindata.

• Amazon to require potential new programming hires to take classes in machine learning
• DeepMind scientists: reinforcement learning is enough for general AI
• [Analysis] Bayesian optimization is superior to random search for machine learning hyperparameter tuning
• Scientists leveraged AI to create tennis matches that never happened (paper, video)
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• An attention-free transformer (paper, code)
• [Video] Spotting and solving everyday problems with machine learning
• [Sponsored] Get your data labeled and annotated by experts at Traindata on time and budget to train, test, and validate ML models
• [Tutorial] Monitoring ML systems to identify and mitigate model performance decay
• [Paper] Self-attention between datapoints: going beyond individual input-output pairs in deep learning (code)

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