Announcing Confetti: A Vision for the Future of Artificial Intelligence in the Real World

Nowadays the term artificial intelligence (AI) has become synonymous with "technology of the future." Since 2012, when the neural networks trounced the ImageNet image classification challenge, machine learning has enabled extraordinary advances across diverse domains such as vision, translation, and speech recognition. We have seen a widespread democratization of the knowledge needed to get started in AI. Cheap consumer hardware, easy access to datasets, and the prevalence of powerful open-source frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow have significantly reduced the barrier to entry. It has become clear that AI is going to transform the fabric of society in ways never seen before.