While not well understood, neural networks, deep learning, and reinforcement learning are all machine learning. Each layer of a deep learning model lets the computer identify another level of abstraction of the same object. Reinforcement learning, takes ideas from game theory, and includes a mechanism to assist learning through rewards. Researchers refer to this challenge as the black box problem of machine learning.

When people ask me what I'm working on, I'm often confused about the depth I need to go to in my response. 'Artificial Intelligence' is way too broad for my personal satisfaction, and image understanding probably too specific. Nevertheless, every single time, I do get this completely unrelated follow-up question that infuriates me to my core. And I can't even blame the skeptic -- most people think artificial intelligence is some unknown, mysterious entity which is conspiring infinitesimally, and will eventually kill us all, since it can predict that Sausage Party is the next movie we'd want to watch after we've binge-watched Evan Goldberg flicks all night. That's what makes predicting your favourite music, or suggesting the correct phone app to use while you're taking a dump -- an easy task for machines.

Attendees came together to discover the latest advances in deep learning from leading innovators in the field, and explored how smart artificial intelligence will impact communications, manufacturing, healthcare & transportation.

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In recent months, security researchers have shown that machine learning algorithms can be reverse-engineered and made to expose user data, like personal photos or health data. So how can we protect that information? New research from OpenAI and Google shows a way to build AI that never sees personal data, but is able to function as if it had. Ian Goodfellow, a researcher at OpenAI, compares the system to medical school. "The doctors who teach in medical school have learned everything they know from decades of experience working with specific individual people, and as a side effect they know a lot of private medical histories," Goodfellow says.

Elon Musk's new plan to go all-in on self-driving vehicles puts a lot of faith in the artificial intelligence needed to ensure his Teslas can read and react to different driving situations in real time. AI is doing some impressive things--last week, for example, makers of the AlphaGo computer program reported that their software has learned to navigate the intricate London subway system like a native. Even the White House has jumped on the bandwagon, releasing a report days ago to help prepare the U.S. for a future when machines can think like humans. But AI has a long way to go before people can or should worry about turning the world over to machines, says Oren Etzioni, a computer scientist who has spent the past few decades studying and trying to solve fundamental problems in AI. Etzioni is currently the chief executive officer of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), an organization that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen formed in 2014 to focus on AI's potential benefits--and to counter messages perpetuated by Hollywood and even other researchers that AI could menace the human race.

Google's Deep Dream software proved that computer imagination can be strange and hallucinogenic. But, given the right parameters, it can also be profoundly dirty. Just look at the AI-generated pictures above -- the top row of images all look fairly innocent (they're supposed to be towers); but the bottom row, well, has an unmistakeable penis-y feel to it. That's right: artificial intelligence has learned how to hallucinate genitals. This imagery is the work of computer scientist Gabriel Goh, who created a neural network that mashes together two existing programs. The first is a Deep Dream-like image generator from MIT that uses deep learning to look at libraries of pictures and create similar images, and the second is an open source program from Yahoo that automatically detects and filters pornography.

Moore's law has driven silicon chip circuitry to the point where we are surrounded by devices equipped with microprocessors. The devices are frequently wonderful; communicating with them – not so much. Pressing buttons on smart devices or keyboards is often clumsy and never the method of choice when effective voice communication is possible. The keyword in the previous sentence is "effective". Technology has advanced to the point where we are in the early stages of being able to communicate with our devices using voice recognition.

In his best-selling 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman hypothesized that thinking could be broken down into two distinct processes -- aptly named fast and slow thought. The former is all about your gut, the initial automatic responses you have to things, while the later is calculated, reflective and time-consuming. A new algorithm from DeepMind is beginning to show us that so-called "slow" thinking may soon be within the reach of machine learning. In a new paper published in Nature, the Google subsidiary DeepMind explained a new approach to machine learning that uses something called a differentiable neural computer. Neural networks operate using what essentially amounts to a very sophisticated trial and error process, eventually arriving at an answer.

I've been studying and writing about DL for close to two years now, and it still amazes the misinformation surrounding this relatively complex learning algorithm. This post is not about how deep learning is or is not over-hyped, as that is a well documented debate. This discussion/rant is somewhat off the cuff, but the whole point was to encourage those of us in the machine learning community to think clearly about deep learning. Let's be bold and try to make some claims based on actual science about whether or not this technology will or will not produce artificial intelligence. After all, aren't we supposed to be the leaders in this field and the few that understand its intricacies and implications?