Emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) Leaders: Richard Socher, Salesforce

"AI teaches us who we are," says Richard Socher. The recent rapid progress in the field of artificial intelligence is the result of successfully processing "a large amount of known training data, doing things [the computer] has seen before," he says. Unlike humans, computers cannot create something new and unique. Human creativity has been the driving force behind scientific and engineering advances, including making computers do more human-like activities such as identifying objects or words. Socher's creativity, his ability to come up with new approaches to solving computers' language and visual processing challenges, has made him a rising star of the deep learning movement that has spawned exciting new applications of artificial intelligence.