Google at NeurIPS 2019

As a Diamond Sponsor of NeurIPS 2019, Google will have a strong presence at NeurIPS 2019 with more than 500 Googlers attending in order to contribute to, and learn from, the broader academic research community via talks, posters, workshops, competitions and tutorials. We will be presenting work that pushes the boundaries of what is possible in language understanding, translation, speech recognition and visual & audio perception, with Googlers co-authoring more than 120 accepted papers. 
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/12/google-at-neurips-2019.html

The C word - and more

Song Han and Yoshua Bengio:

Y.B>: The C-word, consciousness, has been a bit of a taboo in many scientific communities. But in the last couple of decades, the neuroscientists, and cognitive scientists have made quite a bit of progress in starting to pin down what consciousness is about. And of course, there are different aspects to it. There are several interesting theories like the global workspace theory. And now I think we are at a stage where machine learning, especially deep learning, can start looking into neural net architectures and objective functions and frameworks that can achieve some of these functionalities. And what's most exciting for me is that these functionalities may provide evolutionary advantages to humans and thus if we understand those functionalities they would also be helpful for AI.

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