Privacy-Preserving Reinforcement Learning for Population Processes

We have just released another paper on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17649 Here’s the abstract: We consider the problem of privacy protection in Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms that operate over population processes, a practical but understudied setting that includes, for example, the control of epidemics in large populations of dynamically interacting individuals. In this setting, the RL algorithm … More Privacy-Preserving Reinforcement Learning for Population Processes

Improving the Quality of the Responsible AI Conversations

I have been incredibly frustrated with the lack of quality and content in many responsible AI (RAI) conversations. Almost all the (non-academic) RAI meetings I attended these past 12 months involve the speakers repeating words like fairness, accountability, and transparency basically for the entire duration of the meeting, with everyone nodding furiously in agreement about … More Improving the Quality of the Responsible AI Conversations

A Simple Definition of Artificial Intelligence

There are many different definitions of Artificial Intelligence in the literature, all are suggestive and insightful. However, at the end of the day, I think there is really one simple enough to be understood and formalised rigorously. This is John McCarthy’s original definition of AI from 1955: “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines”. … More A Simple Definition of Artificial Intelligence