January 10, 2020

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The breadth of AI applications: The ongoing expansion

The breadth of AI applications: The ongoing expansion

In 2011, we saw a sudden increase in the abilities of computer vision systems brought about by academic researchers in deep learning. Today, Peter Norvig explains, we see continued progress in those fields, but the most exciting aspect is the diversity of applications in fields far astray from the original breakthrough areas, as well as the diversity of the people making these applications.
Talk Title The breadth of AI applications: The ongoing expansion
Speakers Peter Norvig (Google)
Conference Artificial Intelligence Conference
Conf Tag Put AI to Work
Location San Francisco, California
Date September 5-7, 2018
URL Talk Page
Slides Talk Slides
Video Talk Video

In 2011, we saw a sudden increase in the abilities of computer vision systems brought about by academic researchers in deep learning. The following years saw more progress in computer vision and in allied fields such as speech recognition. Today, Peter Norvig explains, we see continued progress in those fields, but the most exciting aspect is the diversity of applications in fields far astray from the original breakthrough areas, as well as the diversity of the people making these applications.

ai computer vision speech deep learning
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