I have rarely been as enthusiastic about a new research direction. We call them GFlowNets, for Generative Flow Networks. They live somewhere at the intersection…
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We sometimes come across catchy headlines about AI that can scare or excite us, such as “By the middle of this century, artificial intelligence will…
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I was at the Montreal climate march on Friday Sept 24th, 2021 with a bunch of Mila folk and it got me thinking again and…
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In my previous blog entry, I discussed how when each person or corporation maximizes their individual interests, it can easily end up with most of…
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Many experts, but not enough people, are well aware that markets can fail to achieve the goal of maximizing long-term wealth, and indeed they do…
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Mila’s COVI project has found itself at the centre of a public debate regarding the use of an app in the fight against COVID-19. While…
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Social distancing works but in its simplest form it is brutal and economically very damaging. We have already seen how tracing and testing can greatly…
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I am on the NeurIPS advisory board and on the ICLR board, and I have been involved in the organization of these conferences at all…
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I often write comments and posts on social media but these tend to be only temporarily visible, so I thought I needed a place to…
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