Natasha Jaques talks about her PhD, her papers on Social Influence in Multi-Agent RL, ML & Climate Change, Sequential Social Dilemmas, internships at DeepMind and Google Brain, Autocurricula, and more!

Show Notes

Natasha Jaques is a PhD candidate at MIT working on affective and social intelligence. She has interned with DeepMind and Google Brain, and was an OpenAI Scholars mentor. Her paper “Social Influence as Intrinsic Motivation for Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning” received an honourable mention for best paper at ICML 2019.

Featured References

Social Influence as Intrinsic Motivation for Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
Natasha Jaques, Angeliki Lazaridou, Edward Hughes, Caglar Gulcehre, Pedro A. Ortega, DJ Strouse, Joel Z. Leibo, Nando de Freitas

Tackling climate change with Machine Learning
David Rolnick, Priya L. Donti, Lynn H. Kaack, Kelly Kochanski, Alexandre Lacoste, Kris Sankaran, Andrew Slavin Ross, Nikola Milojevic-Dupont, Natasha Jaques, Anna Waldman-Brown, Alexandra Luccioni, Tegan Maharaj, Evan D. Sherwin, S. Karthik Mukkavilli, Konrad P. Kording, Carla Gomes, Andrew Y. Ng, Demis Hassabis, John C. Platt, Felix Creutzig, Jennifer Chayes, Yoshua Bengio

Additional References

MIT Media Lab Flight Offsets, Caroline Jaffe, Juliana Cherston, Natasha Jaques
Modeling Others using Oneself in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning,
Roberta Raileanu, Emily Denton, Arthur Szlam, Rob Fergus
Inequity aversion improves cooperation in intertemporal social dilemmas,
Edward Hughes, Joel Z. Leibo, Matthew G. Phillips, Karl Tuyls, Edgar A. Duéñez-Guzmán, Antonio García Castañeda, Iain Dunning, Tina Zhu, Kevin R. McKee, Raphael Koster, Heather Roff, Thore Graepel
Sequential Social Dilemma Games on github, Eugene Vinitsky, Natasha Jaques
AI Alignment newsletter, Rohin Shah
Paired Open-Ended Trailblazer (POET): Endlessly Generating Increasingly Complex and Diverse Learning Environments and Their Solutions, Rui Wang, Joel Lehman, Jeff Clune, Kenneth O. Stanley
The social function of intellect, Nicholas Humphrey
Autocurricula and the Emergence of Innovation from Social Interaction: A Manifesto for Multi-Agent Intelligence Research, Joel Z. Leibo, Edward Hughes, Marc Lanctot, Thore Graepel
A Recipe for Training Neural Networks, Andrej Karpathy
Emotionally Adaptive Intelligent Tutoring Systems using POMDPs, Natasha Jaques
Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari

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