Been Kim: Google Brain researcher Been Kim envisions a scientific approach to interpretability
Interviews & Essays

Been Kim: Google Brain researcher Been Kim envisions a scientific approach to interpretability

It’s an exciting time for AI, with fascinating advances in generated media and many other applications, some even in science and medicine. Some folks may dream about what more AI can create and how much bigger models we may engineer.

December 28, 20223 min read
Been Kim: Google Brain researcher Been Kim envisions a scientific approach to interpretability
Interviews & Essays

Been Kim: Google Brain researcher Been Kim envisions a scientific approach to interpretability

It’s an exciting time for AI, with fascinating advances in generated media and many other applications, some even in science and medicine. Some folks may dream about what more AI can create and how much bigger models we may engineer.

December 28, 20223 min read
Douwe Kiela: Natural language processing researcher Douwe Kiela calls for less hype, more caution.
Interviews & Essays

Douwe Kiela: Natural language processing researcher Douwe Kiela calls for less hype, more caution.

This year we really started to see the mainstreaming of AI. Systems like Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT captured the public imagination to an extent we haven’t seen before in our field.

December 28, 20222 min read
Douwe Kiela: Natural language processing researcher Douwe Kiela calls for less hype, more caution.
Interviews & Essays

Douwe Kiela: Natural language processing researcher Douwe Kiela calls for less hype, more caution.

This year we really started to see the mainstreaming of AI. Systems like Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT captured the public imagination to an extent we haven’t seen before in our field.

December 28, 20222 min read
Yoshua Bengio: Deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio looks forward to neural nets that can reason.
Interviews & Essays

Yoshua Bengio: Deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio looks forward to neural nets that can reason.

Recent advances in deep learning largely have come by brute force: taking the latest architectures and scaling up compute power, data, and engineering. Do we have the architectures we need, and all that remains is to develop better hardware and datasets so we can keep...

December 28, 20223 min read
Yoshua Bengio: Deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio looks forward to neural nets that can reason.
Interviews & Essays

Yoshua Bengio: Deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio looks forward to neural nets that can reason.

Recent advances in deep learning largely have come by brute force: taking the latest architectures and scaling up compute power, data, and engineering. Do we have the architectures we need, and all that remains is to develop better hardware and datasets so we can keep...

December 28, 20223 min read
Matt Zeiler: Advance AI for good
Interviews & Essays

Matt Zeiler: Advance AI for good

There’s a reason why artificial intelligence is sometimes referred to as “software 2.0”: It represents the most significant technological advance in decades. Like any groundbreaking invention, it raises concerns about the future, and much of the media focus is on the threats it brings.

December 29, 20212 min read
Matt Zeiler: Advance AI for good
Interviews & Essays

Matt Zeiler: Advance AI for good

There’s a reason why artificial intelligence is sometimes referred to as “software 2.0”: It represents the most significant technological advance in decades. Like any groundbreaking invention, it raises concerns about the future, and much of the media focus is on the threats it brings.

December 29, 20212 min read
Yale Song: Foundation models for vision
Interviews & Essays

Yale Song: Foundation models for vision

Large models pretrained on immense quantities of text have been proven to provide strong foundations for solving specialized language tasks. My biggest hope for AI in 2022 is...

December 29, 20212 min read
Yale Song: Foundation models for vision
Interviews & Essays

Yale Song: Foundation models for vision

Large models pretrained on immense quantities of text have been proven to provide strong foundations for solving specialized language tasks. My biggest hope for AI in 2022 is...

December 29, 20212 min read
Yoav Shoham: Language models that reason
Interviews & Essays

Yoav Shoham: Language models that reason

I believe that natural language processing in 2022 will re-embrace symbolic reasoning, harmonizing it with the statistical operation of modern neural networks. Let me explain what I mean by this.

December 29, 20212 min read
Yoav Shoham: Language models that reason
Interviews & Essays

Yoav Shoham: Language models that reason

I believe that natural language processing in 2022 will re-embrace symbolic reasoning, harmonizing it with the statistical operation of modern neural networks. Let me explain what I mean by this.

December 29, 20212 min read
Chip Huyen: AI that adapts to changing conditions
Interviews & Essays

Chip Huyen: AI that adapts to changing conditions

Until recently, big data processing has been dominated by batch systems like MapReduce and Spark, which allow us to periodically process a large amount of data very efficiently.

December 29, 20212 min read
Chip Huyen: AI that adapts to changing conditions
Interviews & Essays

Chip Huyen: AI that adapts to changing conditions

Until recently, big data processing has been dominated by batch systems like MapReduce and Spark, which allow us to periodically process a large amount of data very efficiently.

December 29, 20212 min read
Alexei Efros: Learning from the ground up
Interviews & Essays

Alexei Efros: Learning from the ground up

Things are really starting to get going in the field of AI. After many years (decades?!) of focusing on algorithms, the AI community is finally ready to accept the central role of data and the high-capacity models that are capable of taking advantage of this data.

December 29, 20212 min read

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