neurips NeurIPS 2018 Breaks Attendance and Submission Records in Montreal The 32nd NeurIPS conference draws a record 8,300 attendees and accepts 1,010 papers out of nearly 5,000 submissions. Reinforcement learning and generative models dominate the event, while speech processing earns notable spotlight recognition.
artificial intelligence Teen Programmer Uses Neural Networks to Push Boundaries of Creative AI Eighteen-year-old Robbie Barrat works at Stanford's biomedical informatics lab and uses neural networks to generate art, building on his earlier success teaching an AI to rap like Kanye West.
google Google Unifies Research Division Under New Google AI Brand Google rebrands its entire research division as Google AI ahead of the I/O developer conference, highlighting a major shift toward machine learning and neural networks across all of its products.