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Google Brain Residency Program – 7 months in and looking ahead

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Re: Google Brain Residency Program – 7 months in and looking ahead

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Why aren't any of these geniuses working on AGI? Such as applying some of these NN advancements to agents in diverse 3d virtual environments attempting varied/gradually increasingly complex tasks and learning based on low-level (grounded) sensory inputs?

Probably because they want to produce something interesting or useful within their lifetimes.

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Hi there! I'm Cinjon, a current resident in the Google Brain Residency. Feel free to ask any Qs and I'll answer them.

Why aren't any of you geniuses working on AGI? Such as applying some of these NN advancements to agents in diverse 3d virtual environments attempting varied/gradually increasingly complex tasks and learning based on low-level (grounded) sensory inputs?

Isn't that the point of DeepMind?

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"Brain residents will spend the first two weeks of the program going through the Google Orientation sessions interlaced with introductory deep learning classes" It would be great if, Google can make these two week introductory courses available for everyone.

This might be the closest thing there is to it: https://www.udacity.com/course/deep-learning--ud730

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Hi there! I'm Cinjon, a current resident in the Google Brain Residency. Feel free to ask any Qs and I'll answer them.

I'm a self taught somewhat prolific game developer and super interested in AI but have a poor mathematics background, think there's any chance?

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Hi there! I'm Cinjon, a current resident in the Google Brain Residency. Feel free to ask any Qs and I'll answer them.

Hey, Thank you for answering questions. I was wondering if any of you have blogs describing your experiences so far.

Also: I was wondering how much you interact with the other current residents in the program. Are you all together coming up with new ideas? Or are there multiple small group with their own interests...

Re: Google Brain Residency Program – 7 months in and looking ahead

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Hi there! I'm Cinjon, a current resident in the Google Brain Residency. Feel free to ask any Qs and I'll answer them.

Hi! Thanks for taking your time doing this. Are there projects in the intersection between deep learning and neuroscience? As mentioned there are people with neuroscience background but from the papers mentioned, I dont see something really neuroscience related.

Re: Google Brain Residency Program – 7 months in and looking ahead

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Volkswagen, Samsung, Intel and Microsoft[1] all spend more on R&D than Google does[2] and put that funding into a wide variety of areas just as Google does. There's also non-profit research think tanks like Battelle[3] [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research [2] http://web.archive.org/web/20160329190202/http://www.strateg... [3] http://www.battelle.org/

Yeah, but if they have results like google they really manage to keep them secret.

MS research has historically been fantastic in computer vision.

Re: Google Brain Residency Program – 7 months in and looking ahead

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Hi there! I'm Cinjon, a current resident in the Google Brain Residency. Feel free to ask any Qs and I'll answer them.

On the residency program page it says Google will sponsor visas for eligible applicants, but the application page it says applicants must be eligible to work in the US. As someone who will be required a working visa, which one is it? Thanks!

Trust the FAQ. Note, of course, that sponsoring a visa isn't a guarantee of success, IIRC.

Re: Google Brain Residency Program – 7 months in and looking ahead

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Hi there! I'm Cinjon, a current resident in the Google Brain Residency. Feel free to ask any Qs and I'll answer them.

Is there a path for regular SWEs at Google to transition into a Brain-like role? I.e. with opportunities to do research, work on the problems you all work on.

Yes, there's the "ML ninjas" program, which brings non-ML SWEs into brain and other groups for a deep dive into machine learning through a project-based approach. (Often, but not exclusively, inspired by a problem from their originating area.). It's not a transition per se, but a great outcome is that the person becomes a bridge for their team between their specific domain of expertise and machine learning.

A full transition would be done by the usual transfer mechanisms. Two of my former students have switched into Brain from elsewhere in Google, for example.

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