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What Can You Do with a Rock?

September 23, 2017

Our work for the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Australia, 2017) was picked up by a number of media outlets. Read some of our favorites. … More What Can You Do with a Rock?

What Can You Do with a Rock?

Vectors for Common-sense Reasoning

August 9, 2017

The physical world is filled with constraints. You can open a door, but only if it isn’t locked. You can douse a fire, but only if a fire is present. Research in our laboratory shows that this common-sense knowledge can be encapsulated in word vectors and used to improve agent performance on linguistic reasoning tasks. … More Vectors for Common-sense Reasoning

Vectors for Common-sense Reasoning

Robots that Know What You’re Thinking

June 13, 2017

If you knew what I was going to do next, how would your actions change?

Theory of mind describes an agent’s ability to model the intents, beliefs or desires of others – A difficult task because the agent’s mental state is hidden and can only be approximated using observations. This process produces high levels of uncertainty. … More Robots that Know What You’re Thinking

Robots that Know What You’re Thinking

What is Probabilistic Programming, Anyway?

April 26, 2017

Probabilistic programming has become a hot buzzword lately, but if you’re like me, you’ll learn to pronounce all the syllables long before you understand what it’s good for. This post gives a layman’s introduction, plus a few helpful links. … More What is Probabilistic Programming, Anyway?

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