Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI
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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
Yann LeCun — Learning From Observation: The power of self-supervised learning
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Yann LeCun — Learning From Observation: The power of self-supervised learning

How is it that many people learn to drive a car fairly safely in 20 hours of practice, while current imitation learning algorithms take hundreds of thousands of hours, and reinforcement learning algorithms take millions of hours? Clearly we’re missing something big.

January 1, 20202 min read
Yann LeCun — Learning From Observation: The power of self-supervised learning
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Yann LeCun — Learning From Observation: The power of self-supervised learning

How is it that many people learn to drive a car fairly safely in 20 hours of practice, while current imitation learning algorithms take hundreds of thousands of hours, and reinforcement learning algorithms take millions of hours? Clearly we’re missing something big.

January 1, 20202 min read
Chelsea Finn — Robots That Generalize: Generalization for robotics through reinforcement learning
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Chelsea Finn — Robots That Generalize: Generalization for robotics through reinforcement learning

Many people in the AI community focus on achieving flashy results, like building an agent that can win at Go or Jeopardy. This kind of work is impressive in terms of complexity.

January 1, 20202 min read
Chelsea Finn — Robots That Generalize: Generalization for robotics through reinforcement learning
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Chelsea Finn — Robots That Generalize: Generalization for robotics through reinforcement learning

Many people in the AI community focus on achieving flashy results, like building an agent that can win at Go or Jeopardy. This kind of work is impressive in terms of complexity.

January 1, 20202 min read
Oren Etzioni — Tools For Equality: How AI can help improve accessibility
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Oren Etzioni — Tools For Equality: How AI can help improve accessibility

In 2020, I hope the AI community will grapple with issues of fairness in ways that tangibly and directly benefit disadvantaged populations.

January 1, 20201 min read
Oren Etzioni — Tools For Equality: How AI can help improve accessibility
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Oren Etzioni — Tools For Equality: How AI can help improve accessibility

In 2020, I hope the AI community will grapple with issues of fairness in ways that tangibly and directly benefit disadvantaged populations.

January 1, 20201 min read
Anima Anandkumar — The Power of Simulation: How simulation can be useful for supervised learning
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Anima Anandkumar — The Power of Simulation: How simulation can be useful for supervised learning

We’ve had great success with supervised deep learning on labeled data. Now it’s time to explore other ways to learn: training on unlabeled data, lifelong learning, and especially letting models explore a simulated environment before transferring what they learn to the real world.

January 1, 20202 min read
Anima Anandkumar — The Power of Simulation: How simulation can be useful for supervised learning
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Anima Anandkumar — The Power of Simulation: How simulation can be useful for supervised learning

We’ve had great success with supervised deep learning on labeled data. Now it’s time to explore other ways to learn: training on unlabeled data, lifelong learning, and especially letting models explore a simulated environment before transferring what they learn to the real world.

January 1, 20202 min read
Face Recognition Meets Resistance: The rising resistance against face recognition in 2019
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Face Recognition Meets Resistance: The rising resistance against face recognition in 2019

An international wave of anti-surveillance sentiment pushed back against the proliferation of face recognition systems.

December 24, 20192 min read
Simulation Substitutes for Data: When simulation works wonders with deep learning
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Simulation Substitutes for Data: When simulation works wonders with deep learning

The future of machine learning may depend less on amassing ground-truth data than simulating the environment in which a model will operate. Deep learning works like magic with enough high-quality data. When examples are scarce, though, researchers are using simulation to fill the gap.

December 24, 20191 min read
Face Recognition Meets Resistance: The rising resistance against face recognition in 2019
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Face Recognition Meets Resistance: The rising resistance against face recognition in 2019

An international wave of anti-surveillance sentiment pushed back against the proliferation of face recognition systems.

December 24, 20192 min read
Simulation Substitutes for Data: When simulation works wonders with deep learning
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Simulation Substitutes for Data: When simulation works wonders with deep learning

The future of machine learning may depend less on amassing ground-truth data than simulating the environment in which a model will operate. Deep learning works like magic with enough high-quality data. When examples are scarce, though, researchers are using simulation to fill the gap.

December 24, 20191 min read

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