Polarization caused by social media is seen by many as an important societal
problem, which also overlaps [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.10939.pdf] with AI
alignment [https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/
There is a growing fear that algorithmic recommender systems, such as Facebook,
Youtube, Netflix, and Amazon, are having negative effects on society, for
instance by manipulating users into behaviors that they wouldn’t
Research ability, like most tasks, is a trainable skill. However, while PhD
students and other researchers spend a lot of time doing research, we often
don't spend enough time training our
Each year I aim to donate around 10% of my income. In 2019, I fell behind on
this, probably due to the chaos of COVID-19 (but really this was just an
embarassing logistical
In machine learning, we are obsessed with datasets and metrics: progress in
areas as diverse as natural language understanding, object recognition, and
reinforcement learning is tracked by numerical scores on agreed-upon benchmarks.
Despite
