We all witness the tremendous impact that new AI systems like Chat-GPT or GPT4 can have. While these system show fantastic opportunities on the positive side, their power also poses a number of substantial safety risks.
Influential scientist like Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Yuval Noah Harari have initiated this Future-of-Life-Institute open letter:
that demands to pause the development of high-risk and currently potentially unsafe models like GPT4 for at least 6 months in order to establish safety mechanism and other things. I support this and have just signed this letter.
Sample n-tuples on an Othello board
We are happy to announce that our paper “AlphaZero-Inspired Game Learning: Faster Training by Using MCTS Only at Test Time” (preprint available here on arXiv) finally got accepted by the internationally well known journal IEEE Transactions on Games. It was quite some work to answer all the good questions of the reviewers, but it was worth it, since it brought the article in better shape.
The article arose from the Bachelor thesis of Johannes Scheiermann and further work we did after the completion of this thesis. The key message is: While the very successful AlphaGo and AlphaZero is also very computationally demanding, we present in this paper an AlphaZero-inspired approach with so-called n-tuple networks, which is much cheaper to train: only 2h to train an Othello agent from scratch, where the full AlphaZero approach would take at least half a year (!) on the same hardware.
See CIOP blog post 1 and CIOP blog post 2.
Carthusian monastery in Pontignano, Siena, Italy. Venue of LOD’2022.
We are happy to announce the dataninja.nrw inauguration event that takes place virtually on Monday, May, 3rd, 16-18.
Our research group at TH Köln is part of the AI graduate college dataninja.nrw with a PhD tandem together with Ruhr University Bochum.
Please see the attached PDF dataninja_inauguration_05_03 for all the details and the programme of the inauguration event and how to register.
All interested people are free to join this event!
See this CIOP blog post and this THK-News (sorry, in German only).
see this CIOP blog post.
First Place in Opitz Reward 2020 for Jordan Scholzen (Source: Jordan Scholzen / TH Köln)
