Ian Goodfellow: A Man, A Plan, A GAN
Interviews & Essays

Ian Goodfellow: A Man, A Plan, A GAN

Brilliant ideas strike at unlikely moments. Ian Goodfellow conceived generative adversarial networks while spitballing programming techniques with friends at a bar. Goodfellow, who views himself as “someone who works on the core technology, not the applications,”...

September 30, 20203 min read
Ian Goodfellow: A Man, A Plan, A GAN
Interviews & Essays

Ian Goodfellow: A Man, A Plan, A GAN

Brilliant ideas strike at unlikely moments. Ian Goodfellow conceived generative adversarial networks while spitballing programming techniques with friends at a bar. Goodfellow, who views himself as “someone who works on the core technology, not the applications,”...

September 30, 20203 min read
AI Transformed: A Conversation with Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer
Interviews & Essays

AI Transformed: A Conversation with Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer

Noam Shazeer helped spark the latest NLP revolution. He developed the multi-headed self-attention mechanism described in “Attention Is All You Need,” the 2017 paper that introduced the transformer network.

June 17, 20203 min read
AI Transformed: A Conversation with Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer
Interviews & Essays

AI Transformed: A Conversation with Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer

Noam Shazeer helped spark the latest NLP revolution. He developed the multi-headed self-attention mechanism described in “Attention Is All You Need,” the 2017 paper that introduced the transformer network.

June 17, 20203 min read
A Visionary Doctor Prescribes AI: Dr. Eric Topol makes the case for AI in medicine.
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A Visionary Doctor Prescribes AI: Dr. Eric Topol makes the case for AI in medicine.

Eric Topol is one of the world’s leading advocates for AI in medicine. Below he shares his insights into the fusion of AI and medicine and advice for machine learning engineers who want to get involved.

April 15, 20203 min read
A Visionary Doctor Prescribes AI: Dr. Eric Topol makes the case for AI in medicine.
Interviews & Essays

A Visionary Doctor Prescribes AI: Dr. Eric Topol makes the case for AI in medicine.

Eric Topol is one of the world’s leading advocates for AI in medicine. Below he shares his insights into the fusion of AI and medicine and advice for machine learning engineers who want to get involved.

April 15, 20203 min read
Zhi-Hua Zhou — Fresh Methods, Clear Guidelines: Professor Zhi-Hua Zhou's AI hopes for 2020
Interviews & Essays

Zhi-Hua Zhou — Fresh Methods, Clear Guidelines: Professor Zhi-Hua Zhou's AI hopes for 2020

I have three hopes for 2020: Hope that advanced machine learning techniques beyond deep neural networks can emerge. Neural networks have been studied and applied by many researchers, engineers, and practitioners for a long time.

January 1, 20201 min read
Zhi-Hua Zhou — Fresh Methods, Clear Guidelines: Professor Zhi-Hua Zhou's AI hopes for 2020
Interviews & Essays

Zhi-Hua Zhou — Fresh Methods, Clear Guidelines: Professor Zhi-Hua Zhou's AI hopes for 2020

I have three hopes for 2020: Hope that advanced machine learning techniques beyond deep neural networks can emerge. Neural networks have been studied and applied by many researchers, engineers, and practitioners for a long time.

January 1, 20201 min read
Dawn Song — Taking Responsibility for Data: The importance of a responsible data economy
Interviews & Essays

Dawn Song — Taking Responsibility for Data: The importance of a responsible data economy

Datasets are critical to AI and machine learning, and they are becoming a key driver of the economy. Collection of sensitive data is increasing rapidly, covering almost every aspect of people’s lives.

January 1, 20202 min read
Dawn Song — Taking Responsibility for Data: The importance of a responsible data economy
Interviews & Essays

Dawn Song — Taking Responsibility for Data: The importance of a responsible data economy

Datasets are critical to AI and machine learning, and they are becoming a key driver of the economy. Collection of sensitive data is increasing rapidly, covering almost every aspect of people’s lives.

January 1, 20202 min read
Richard Socher — Boiling the Information Ocean: Using AI summarization to help with information overload
Interviews & Essays

Richard Socher — Boiling the Information Ocean: Using AI summarization to help with information overload

Ignorance is a choice in the Internet age. Virtually all of human knowledge is available for the cost of typing a few words into a search box.

January 1, 20202 min read
Richard Socher — Boiling the Information Ocean: Using AI summarization to help with information overload
Interviews & Essays

Richard Socher — Boiling the Information Ocean: Using AI summarization to help with information overload

Ignorance is a choice in the Internet age. Virtually all of human knowledge is available for the cost of typing a few words into a search box.

January 1, 20202 min read
David Patterson — Faster Training and Inference: Using MLPerf to test new AI hardware
Interviews & Essays

David Patterson — Faster Training and Inference: Using MLPerf to test new AI hardware

Billions of dollars invested to create novel AI hardware will bear their early fruit in 2020. Google unleashed a financial avalanche with its tensor processing unit in 2017.

January 1, 20201 min read
David Patterson — Faster Training and Inference: Using MLPerf to test new AI hardware
Interviews & Essays

David Patterson — Faster Training and Inference: Using MLPerf to test new AI hardware

Billions of dollars invested to create novel AI hardware will bear their early fruit in 2020. Google unleashed a financial avalanche with its tensor processing unit in 2017.

January 1, 20201 min read
Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI
Interviews & Essays

Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI

Artificial intelligence has moved from the age of discovery to the age of implementation. Among our invested portfolios, primarily in China, we see flourishing applications using AI and automation in banking, finance, transportation, logistics, supermarkets, restaurants, warehouses, factories...

January 1, 20201 min read

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