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Which tasks are called as downstream tasks?

The following paragraph is from page no 331 of the textbook Natural Language Processing by Jacob Eisenstein. It mentions about certain type of tasks called as downstream tasks. But, it provide no further examples or details regarding these…
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Why class embedding token is added to the Visual Transformer?

In the famous work on the Visual Transformers, the image is split into patches of a certain size (say 16x16), and these patches are treated as tokens in the NLP tasks. In order to perform classification, a CLS token is added at the beginning of the…
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Is artificial life really life or not?

I define Artificial Life as a "simulation" or "copy" of life. However, should it be considered a simulation or copy? If one had motivation and money, someone could theoretically create evolving computers, with a program that allows mutation OR…
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What is ergodicity in a Markov Decision Process (MDP)?

I have read about the concept of ergodicity on the safe RL paper by Moldovan (section 3.2) and the RL book by Sutton (chapter 10.3, 2nd paragraph). The first one says that "a belief over MDPs is ergodic if and only if any state is reachable from any…
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Is there an AI model for generating sarcastic sentences?

I am currently working on an Android AI app. I am aware of AI models to generate random sentences. However, is there an AI model for generating sarcastic sentences?
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Can Bayesian inference be combined with knowledge-based systems?

I've been struggling with the connection between knowledge-based AI systems and Bayesian inference for a while now. While I continue to sweep through the literature, I would be happy if someone can answer these more specific questions directly Are…
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What are the biggest barriers to get RL in production?

I am studying the state of the art of Reinforcement Learning, and my point is that we see so many applications in the real world using Supervised and Unsupervised learning algorithms in production, but I don't see the same thing with Reinforcement…
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What are the main differences between a perceptron and a naive Bayes classifier?

What are the main differences between a perceptron and a naive Bayes classifier?
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Should intelligent AI be granted the same rights as humans?

One of the most crucial questions we as a species and as intelligent beings will have to address lies with the rights we plan to grant to AI. This question is intended to see if a compromise can be found between conservative anthropocentrism and…
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What are general ideas behind OpenCog?

OpenCog is an open source AGI-project co-founded by the mercurial AI researcher Ben Goertzel. Ben Goertzel writes a lot of stuff, some of it really whacky. Nonetheless, he is clearly very intelligent and has thought deeply about AI for many decades.…
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Are there transformer-based architectures that can produce fixed-length vector encodings given arbitrary-length text documents?

BERT encodes a piece of text such that each token (usually words) in the input text map to a vector in the encoding of the text. However, this makes the length of the encoding vary as a function of the input length of the text, which makes it more…
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Would an AI with human intelligence have the same rights as a human under current legal frameworks?

For example, would an AI be able to own property, evict tenants, acquire debt, employ, vote, or marry? What are the legal structures in place to implement a strong AI into society?
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Can the English language ever be generalized using a set of grammar rules?

In programming languages, there is a set of grammar rules which govern the construction of valid statements and expressions. These rules help in parsing the programs written by the user. Can there ever be a functionally complete set of grammar rules…
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Why is depth-first search an artificial intelligence algorithm?

I'm new to the artificial intelligence field. In our first chapters, there is one topic called "problem-solving by searching". After searching for it on the internet, I found the depth-first search algorithm. The algorithm is easy to understand, but…
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What is the most sophisticated AI ever made?

What is the most advanced AI software/system that humans have made to date, and what does it do?