Last Week in AI

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From the Editor: An Interesting Message at AI’s Biggest Party

The NeurIPS conference is considered by many the top artificial intelligence(AI) academic event of the year. Last week, over 13000 AI researchers descended over the city of Vancouver to participate in the latest edition of NeurIPS. While previous editions of NeurIPS were filled with overly optimistic pictures about the future, this year saw a shift of focus towards addressing some of the most important limitations of the latest generation of AI systems.

To use some examples, deep learning legend Yoshua Bengio used his keynote to highlight the very narrow learning mechanisms of most AI models and the difficulty of reusing knowledge across AI systems. Similarly, Google’s Blaise Aguera y Arcas called AI researchers to pay attention to the “biological nature” of intelligence and to incorporate those mechanisms into deep learning systems. Overall, NeurIPS celebrated the recent advancements in AI research but emphasized a very sober and pragmatic view of the near term future of AI.