'Weird new things are happening in software,' says Stanford AI professor Chris Re

Stanford Computer scientist Christopher Re discussed the changing software paradigm, Software 2.0. He told the University's Human-Centered AI group that focusing on neural network-building, and other low-level tasks such as tweaking hyper-parameters, is not really where engineers can make their most valuable efforts. Some AI researchers' practices are as tired as a Michael Bay movie, to hear Christopher Re tell it. Wednesday, Re, who is a Stanford University associate professor of computer science, gave a talk for the University's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence institute. His topic: "Weird new things are happening in software."