April 2021 - Ai - Engineering Mailing Lists

AI alignment reading group: Robust Agent-Agnostic Processes
by Turner, Alex 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

This Friday, we'll discuss "What Multipolar Failure Looks Like, and Robust Agent-Agnostic Processes": "In multi-agent systems, robust processes can emerge that are not particularly sensitive to which agents carry out which parts of the process. I call these processes Robust Agent-Agnostic Processes (RAAPs), and claim that there are at least a few bad RAAPs that could pose existential threats to humanity as automation and AI capabilities improve. Wars and economies are categories of RAAPs that I consider relatively “obvious” to think about, however there may be a much richer space of AI-enabled RAAPs that could yield existential threats or benefits to humanity. Hence, directing more x-risk-oriented AI research attention toward understanding RAAPs and how to make them safe to humanity seems prudent and perhaps necessary to ensure the existential safety of AI technology. Since researchers in multi-agent systems and multi-agent RL already think about RAAPs implicitly, these areas present a promising space for x-risk oriented AI researchers to begin thinking about and learning from." Post: https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/LpM3EAakwYdS6aRKf/what-multipolar-fail… Summary in the Alignment Newsletter: https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/AwxBGFy59DYDk4ooe/an-146-plausible-sto… We'll meet Friday at 1. https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/2739792686?pwd=VkRUeHJkYnhvTzlvZzR6YnZWNERKQT… Alex Turner

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[CoRIS-List] Starting Now: Amanda Prorok
by Hatton, Ross 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

Hi All, Our first seminar of the term is starting now: Amanda Prorok (Cambridge University), "Learning to Communicate in Multi-Agent Systems" Speaker bio: https://roboticstoday.github.io/ Watch link: https://roboticstoday.github.io/watch.html Pre- and post-seminar Gather space for OSU Robotics attendees (with an integrated link to the main talk) is at https://gather.town/app/HeC6WAB1zL6cKWp5/OSU%20Robotics%20Seminar -Ross =========== Ross L. Hatton Associate Professor, Robotics and Mechanical Engineering Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute Oregon State University coris.oregonstate.edu research.engr.oregonstate.edu/lram/ rosslhatton.com ross.hatton(a)oregonstate.edu

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AI alignment reading group: Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features
by Turner, Alex 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

This Friday, we'll be discussing a fun paper about adversarial examples. "Over the past few years, adversarial examples – or inputs that have been slightly perturbed by an adversary to cause unintended behavior in machine learning systems – have received significant attention in the machine learning community. There has been much work on training models that are not vulnerable to adversarial examples... but all this research does not really confront the fundamental question: why do these adversarial examples arise in the first place?" Blog post: https://gradientscience.org/adv/ Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02175 Summaries of paper and counterpoints: https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/NTwA3J99RPkgmp6jh/an-62-are-adversaria… We'll meet Friday at 1. https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/2739792686?pwd=VkRUeHJkYnhvTzlvZzR6YnZWNERKQT… Alex Turner

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[CoRIS-List] Reminder: Friday, 11am: Amanda Prorok
by Hatton, Ross 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Hi All, As a reminder, our first seminar of the term is this Friday: Amanda Prorok (Cambridge University), "Learning to Communicate in Multi-Agent Systems" Speaker bio: https://roboticstoday.github.io/ Watch link: https://roboticstoday.github.io/watch.html Pre- and post-seminar Gather space for OSU Robotics attendees (with an integrated link to the main talk) is at https://gather.town/app/HeC6WAB1zL6cKWp5/OSU%20Robotics%20Seminar -Ross =========== Ross L. Hatton Associate Professor, Robotics and Mechanical Engineering Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute Oregon State University coris.oregonstate.edu research.engr.oregonstate.edu/lram/ rosslhatton.com ross.hatton(a)oregonstate.edu

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[CoRIS-List] OSU Robotics Spring Seminar Series
by Ross L. Hatton 03 Apr '21

03 Apr '21

Hi All, Our initial lineup for the OSU Robotics Spring seminar series is listed below. As with our previous remote terms, the seminars will be a mix of speakers we have invited to give talks to an OSU audience along with broadcasts from the Robotics Today web seminar series. I've also set up a gather.town space to use before and after the seminar. (Ideas for how to stock the space with Interzone coffee cake are welcome). https://gather.town/app/HeC6WAB1zL6cKWp5/OSU%20Robotics%20Seminar Pressing 'x' anywhere in the space will take you to the Zoom or web stream for the seminar. -Ross April 9, 11am: Amanda Prorok (Cambridge University), "Learning to Communicate in Multi-Agent Systems" https://roboticstoday.github.io/watch.html April 23, 12pm: Koushil Sreenath (UC Berkeley), Title TBA, area is Dynamics and Control https://roboticstoday.github.io/watch.html April 30, 10am: Kory Mathewson (DeepMind), Title TBA, area is Human-Robot Interaction https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/97644079157?pwd=WXRZeEhOR0padXVzb2NkVkVkVEFmZ… May 14, 10am: Hannah Stuart, title TBA, area is Manipulation and Mechanisms https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/97644079157?pwd=WXRZeEhOR0padXVzb2NkVkVkVEFmZ… May 21, 12pm: Antonio Bicchi (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia), Title TBA, area is Control and Compliant Mechanisms https://roboticstoday.github.io/watch.html =========== Ross L. Hatton Associate Professor, Robotics and Mechanical Engineering Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute Oregon State University coris.oregonstate.edu research.engr.oregonstate.edu/lram/ rosslhatton.com ross.hatton(a)oregonstate.edu

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