Podcast: Top AI Breakthroughs and Challenges of 2017 with Richard Mallah and Chelsea Finn - Future of Life Institute

AlphaZero, progress in meta-learning, the role of AI in fake news, the difficulty of developing fair machine learning -- 2017 was another year of big breakthroughs and big challenges for AI researchers! To discuss this more, we invited FLI's Richard Mallah and Chelsea Finn from UC Berkeley to join Ariel for this month's podcast. They talked about some of the technical progress they were most excited to see and what they're looking forward to in the coming year. You can listen to the podcast here, or read the transcript below. In 2017, we saw an increase in investments into artificial intelligence. More students are applying for AI programs, and more AI labs are cropping up around the world. With 2017 now solidly behind us, we wanted to take a look back at the year and go over some of the biggest AI breakthroughs. To do so, I have Richard Mallah and Chelsea Finn with me today.