There may be an impending breakthrough in artificial intelligence hidden deep within this convention hall, whether it be on posters crammed with arithmetic or in lively discussions.
Over the last week, more than 16,000 computer scientists and other visitors converged on British Columbia for the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, or NeurIPS, which has grown to be the largest annual event in AI.
The most brilliant minds in artificial intelligence have been gathering at the event since 1987, first in Denver and then in Vancouver and other places, after years of toiling in obscurity. The future of technology and the global economy is being driven by these researchers, who have recently become industry stars.
Last week, rock stars in the sector shared their thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence with their aspiring countrymen crammed into an exhibition hall. Ilya Sutskever had remarked, “The more it reasons, the more unpredictable it becomes,” yet the lead scientist of OpenAI has refuted this claim.
Fei-Fei Li of Stanford University stated, “The 3D ladder, which I call spatial intelligence, is the new ladder to climb.” Using 2D data from the internet, she claimed, was akin to creating artificial intelligence for a “flat earth.”
When a field of outliers could fit in a hotel bar decades ago, the meeting was a much more private event. Corporations are now able to advertise their products there and entice scholars to pursue new, profitable ventures. A new tab is opened by Meta Platforms (META.O). Participants noted that in 2013, CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrived.
Major corporations Microsoft (MSFT.O), Meta, and Alphabet (GOOGL.O) have opened new tabs for AI news at the event this year. AI researchers wouldn’t compete for hotel rooms on the same night as a Taylor Swift concert because of the enormous crowds, which caused NeurIPS to start a day later than planned, according to a new tab.
