Fake NIPS slip site scandalizes AI world

A cheeky website is pretending to take attendee registrations and hotel bookings for folks heading to the upcoming Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference in Montreal, Canada, at the end of this year. Thousands of AI researchers and previous attendees received an email from the official NIPS team warning of the counterfeit site. "It has come to our attention that a fake website is offering registration and housing for the NIPS conference," the email stated. "The real NIPS website is nips.cc. Please do not visit nips2018.org." At first glance, the unofficial site is quite convincing.