Deep Learning Summit
San Francisco

Ian Goodfellow is a Senior Research Scientist on the Google Brain team. He studies new methods for improving neural networks. Recent publications include: Adversarial Autoencoders; Net2Net: Accelerating Learning via Knowledge Transfer; and Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples.

Sergey Levine, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley has been listed as one of the 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review for his work creating a robot that supervises its own learning. “It’s reverse-engineering its own behavior,” Levine said.

They are a dream of researchers but perhaps a nightmare for highly skilled computer programmers: artificially intelligent machines that can build other artificially intelligent machines.

Karol's research interests lie in active state estimation, control generation and machine learning for robotics. Karol investigates interactive perception, by which robots use their manipulation capabilities to gain the most useful perceptual information to model the world and inform intelligent decision making.

Improving neural networks not through teaching, but through evolution—is revealing its potential. Five new papers from Uber in San Francisco, California, demonstrate the power of so-called neuroevolution to play video games, solve mazes, and even make a simulated robot walk.

Folia Water is supported by 500 Startups, an early-stage venture fund and seed-stage accelerator that is based in Silicon Valley, but makes investments all over the world based on its mission to promote entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds. Its 500 Seed Program brings startup founders together for four months, where they work on areas such as business strategy, user testing, and growth.

Researchers such as Abhishek Gupta are trying to help Montreal lead the world in ensuring AI is developed responsibly. His bi-monthly "AI ethics meet-up" brings together people from around the city who want to influence the way researchers are thinking about machine-learning.